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Bloquiste bloquiste DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Politics, French relations

  a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois, a federal party devoted to Quebec sovereignty/separatism.

  Type: 1. Origin — After the Charter of the French Language was passed in 1977, making French the sole official language of Quebec, many French words with no English equivalents have been borrowed into Quebec English, particularly those dealing with politics and language. Bloquiste, like Péquiste, falls under Type 1 of Boberg's (2012: 497-501) processes of lexical transfer in Quebec, which describes "elective direct lexical transfer[s]". Not surprisingly, the term is exclusively used in Canadian English (see Chart 1).
  The Bloc Québécois was founded in 1991, at which time the term Bloquiste was coined (see the 1991 quotation).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "Bloquiste", which is marked "Cdn", and ITP Nelson, s.v. "Bloquiste".

  See also: Creditiste    Péquiste (meaning 2)  Bloc Québécois  Charter of the French Language  

  • For a disambiguation of the terms separatism and sovereignity, see the fist note at Bloc Québécois.

  • 1991  With his jet-black hair, long sideburns and sneer, the King would have been a perfect choice to play the bloated bloquiste. 
  • 1997  "We already have in our bylaws that we have to stay until Quebec is a sovereign country," Bloquiste Suzanne Tremblay said Friday. 
  • 2007  New Democrat Olivia Chow, Liberal Ruby Dhalla and Bloquiste Vivian Barbot have joined forces to put child care back on the national agenda. 
  • 2013  The secessionists, like former Bloquiste Daniel Turp, who debated Dion, strive to make Quebecers believe that independence would be essentially costless, while creating all kinds of benefits.