Collectif pour la réussite et l'épanouissement de l'enfant
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The Collectif pour la réussite et l'épanouissement de l'enfant
(CRÉE) was a short-lived political party in the educational system of Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada
. It contested the 2003 school commission elections
for the Commission scolaire de Montréal
(CSM), the primary francophone board in Montreal, and saw three of its candidates elected.
CRÉE was founded in September 2003 as a successor party to the Regroupement scolaire confessionnel
(RSC). The RSC had been defeated in the 1998 school commission elections
, but formed a majority on the commission the following year in alliance with five defectors from the governing Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte
(MEMO) party. CRÉE's founders included both RSC members and MEMO defectors; its leader was former MEMO commissioner Marcellin Noël.
The party's electoral platform focused on what party leaders described as the personal development of schoolchildren. CRÉE promised to improve French-language education and to introduce English-language instruction as early as the first grade; it also pledged that special attention would be given to boys in public schools and promised to encourage the creation of boys-only classes. CRÉE emphasized that, unlike MEMO, it was not connected to any federal or provincial party.
MEMO won a landslide victory in the 2003 elections, taking eighteen of twenty-one seats. The only CRÉE candidates returned were Viken Afarian, Lyn Faust, and Gérald Morel. All served in opposition for the next four years, though the party itself seems to have become dormant. Both Faust and Morel stood down at the 2007 elections; Afarian sought re-election as an independent candidate and was defeated.
Collectif pour la réussite et l'épanouissement de l'enfant
The Collectif pour la réussite et l'épanouissement de l'enfant was a short-lived political party in the educational system of Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
(CRÉE) was a short-lived political party in the educational system of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It contested the 2003 school commission elections
Commission scolaire de Montréal election, 2003
Elections for trustee positions on the Commission scolaire de Montréal, in the Canadian province of Quebec, were held on 16 November 2003. The Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte won eighteen seats to form a majority, while the Collectif pour la réussite et l'épanouissement de l'enfant ...
for the Commission scolaire de Montréal
Commission scolaire de Montréal
Commission scolaire de Montréal is a French-language school board located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The school board was created on July 1, 1998, as a result of a law passed by the Quebec government that changed the school board system from denominational to linguistic...
(CSM), the primary francophone board in Montreal, and saw three of its candidates elected.
CRÉE was founded in September 2003 as a successor party to the Regroupement scolaire confessionnel
Regroupement scolaire confessionnel
The Regroupement scolaire confessionnel was a political party in the educational system of Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1990 to 2003. The party governed the Montreal Catholic School Commission from 1990 to 1998 and later formed the official opposition on the successor Commission scolaire de...
(RSC). The RSC had been defeated in the 1998 school commission elections
Commission scolaire de Montréal election, 1998
The first elections for trustee positions on the newly created Commission scolaire de Montréal, in the Canadian province of Quebec, were held on 14 June 1998...
, but formed a majority on the commission the following year in alliance with five defectors from the governing Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte
Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte
Mouvement pour une école moderne et ouverte is a political party in the educational system of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has governed the Commission scolaire de Montréal since the commission's founding in 1998, under the leadership of Diane De Courcy.-Origins:MÉMO was founded in August 1987 to...
(MEMO) party. CRÉE's founders included both RSC members and MEMO defectors; its leader was former MEMO commissioner Marcellin Noël.
The party's electoral platform focused on what party leaders described as the personal development of schoolchildren. CRÉE promised to improve French-language education and to introduce English-language instruction as early as the first grade; it also pledged that special attention would be given to boys in public schools and promised to encourage the creation of boys-only classes. CRÉE emphasized that, unlike MEMO, it was not connected to any federal or provincial party.
MEMO won a landslide victory in the 2003 elections, taking eighteen of twenty-one seats. The only CRÉE candidates returned were Viken Afarian, Lyn Faust, and Gérald Morel. All served in opposition for the next four years, though the party itself seems to have become dormant. Both Faust and Morel stood down at the 2007 elections; Afarian sought re-election as an independent candidate and was defeated.