Jean Allaire was the author of the Allaire Report

Allaire Report

The Allaire Report was a report written by the constitutional reform committee of the Liberal Party of Quebec, chaired by lawyer and politician Jean Allaire, recommending a significant transfer of powers from Canada's federal government to the Government of Quebec...

, and subsequently in 1994 the first leader of the fiscally conservative, autonomist provincial level political party in Quebec

Quebec

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, the Action démocratique du Québec

Action démocratique du Québec

The Action démocratique du Québec, commonly referred to as the ADQ is a centre-right political party in Quebec, Canada. On the sovereignty question, it defines itself as autonomist, and has support from both soft nationalists and federalists....

 (ADQ). Allaire resigned within a few months for health reasons and was succeeded by Mario Dumont

Mario Dumont

Mario Dumont is a television personality and former politician in the province of Quebec. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec , and the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec , from 1994 to 2009...

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Prior to joining the ADQ, Allaire was an influential member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He and Mario Dumont

Mario Dumont

Mario Dumont is a television personality and former politician in the province of Quebec. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec , and the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec , from 1994 to 2009...

, organized a group a Liberal dissidents called the Network of Liberals for the No, that campaigned against the Charlottetown Accord

Charlottetown Accord

The Charlottetown Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 of that year, and was defeated.-Background:...

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This faction was disillusioned with the Liberals's stance on Canadian federalism

Canadian federalism

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 and became the base of the ADQ.

In April 2007, Allaire signed a manifesto

Manifesto

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 that urges Quebec to choose an electoral system in which a significant number of seats would be determined by proportional representation

Mixed member proportional representation

Mixed-member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is a voting system originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag, and nowadays adopted by numerous legislatures around the world...

 instead of plurality

Plurality voting system

The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...

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