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Péquiste Pequiste, pequiste DCHP-2 (July 2016)

• 1 adj. — Politics, Quebec

  pertaining to the Parti Québécois.

  Type: 1. Origin — Used as a modifier, Pequiste appeared fairly soon after the Parti Québécois was founded in 1968. Rather than saying, e.g., PQ membership, it is quite common to use Pequiste (or Péquiste) membership.

  • 1974  On the Pequiste side the hope is above all that the third force have strong federalist tendencies; it would thus be in competition with the Liberal Party for the support of the Anglophone vote, but even more for that of Francophones still enamored of federalism.
  • 1985  The orthodoxes believe they may be able to force an early election, if enough PQ members of the National Assembly resign their seats after the convention. Several pequiste MNAs have said that whether they quit their seats will depend on what happens at the convention. 
  • 1989  The Pequiste opposition to Senator-elect Stan Waters has nothing to do with the Reform Party's opposition to the Meech Lake accord. It has everything to do with sabotaging a promising step towards national reconciliation, and particularly one that would enthrone in Ottawa voices other than the provincial government that can claim to speak for the provinces. 
  • 2001  Quebec is a nation, he has been telling appreciative Pequiste audiences on his tour of the province. "Even Jean Charest says it. Le Devoir says it, La Presse says it." That's why it calls its legislature the National Assembly instead of a mere provincial parliament. Landry likes to compare Quebec to Scotland instead of Saskatchewan. And Quebec should be recognized as a nation, he says, as Great Britain recognizes Scotland. 
  • 2008  The posters began appearing late last week in the east-end ridings of Bourget and Pointe-aux-Trembles where provincial byelections are scheduled for May 12. The posters read: "Decrease of French in Montreal. The Pequiste/Liberal record -- 22% increase in immigration. The ADQ solution -- high birth rate policy and freeze on the level of immigration." 
  • 2016  It is a staple of Pequiste rhetoric that, while the squareheads might indulge in some uncharacteristic fits of emotion in the days immediately after a vote to secede, before long the logic of commerce and self-interest would bring them to the table. 

• 2 n. — Politics, Quebec

  a member or supporter of the Parti Québécois.

  Type: 1. Origin — The Parti Québécois was formed in 1968. The term Péquiste appears to have been coined shortly after in order to designate its members and supporters. Péquiste probably comes from the acronym "PQ", used adjectivally, onto which is attached the French suffix "-iste". Like its English cousin "-ist", "-iste" denotes a follower of something, in this case PQ principles.
  The term is used almost exclusively in Canada (see Chart 1).
  In Canadian English, the term is used with or without diacritics.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "Péquiste", and " Gage-5, s.v. "Péquiste", which are marked "Cdn", and ITP Nelson, s.v. "Péquiste", which is described as "Quebec".

  See also: Creditiste  Bloquiste  Parti Québécois  

  • 1970  Maybe if you're a leftist or a Pequiste, you're in effect FLQ. The net is suddenly a little wider, and out for more fish, than we have been led to believe from the impression that the government was just hunting two or three kidnapping cells.
  • 1982  In addition to attacks from their own community, these English Pequistes, numbering fewer than 1,000 in a party of almost 300,000 members, must also face the slurs of radical "pure laine" members, who would like to purge the party of the "maudits anglais." 
  • 2000  The 418 and 450 belts are the two regions of the province where the Quebec Liberals are chronically weak, and where they lost 15 seats in the last election by a total of 10,000 votes. Given the composition of the National Assembly, with 75 Pequistes to 49 Liberals, that would have changed the outcome of the election if all those votes had fallen the other way. 
  • 2015  Like many young anglophones living in those turbulent political times in Quebec, I was not sure where I fit in. Mr. Doré was young, attractive and articulate in both official languages, but he had been René Lévesque's press secretary earlier in his career. He and his MCM colleagues succeeded, however, in building a broad base. French and English, Liberals, Conservatives and Péquistes, and left and right all united to help the city move forward.