provided the vehicle by which anyone unjustly treated had their case reviewed and given proper compensation. During the October Crisis, Choquette reportedly reluctantly supported the suspension of civil liberties under the War Measures Act. Until he was removed from the portfolio, Choquette was deeply involved and interested in prosecuting Henry Morgentaler. Choquette was the Cabinet Minister who helped create the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, introduced it into the National Assembly in 1975 and established Quebec's legal aid system. Parti National Populaire In September 1975, Choquette resigned as Minister of Education over differences in language policy. He wanted stricter enforcement of the requirement that children whose parents were not educated in English be educated in French. He repeatedly refused the entreaties of Maurice Bellemare that he take over the leadership of the Union Nationale party. On December 14, 1975, he founded the Parti National Populaire with Fabien Roy, a member of the National Assembly who had been expelled from the Ralliement créditiste du Québec. Choquette was confirmed as leader of the party at a party congress on October 24, 1976. He was defeated in Outremont in the November 1976 Quebec election. Choquette resigned from the PNP on March 29, 1977, and rejoined the Liberal Party on January 16, 1978. Municipal politics Choquette restarted his law career in 1976. From 1983 to 1991, he served as mayor of the Montreal suburb of Outremont. In 1993, he began a campaign for the leadership of the Civic Party of Montreal, a municipal political party in Montreal, but later withdrew from the race and founded the Parti des Montréalais (). As leader of that party, he was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Montreal in 1994. See also Politics of Quebec List of Quebec general elections List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition National Assembly of Quebec List of Quebec political parties References External links 1928 births 2017 deaths Columbia Business School alumni French Quebecers Justice ministers of Quebec Lawyers from Montreal Politicians from Montreal Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Quebec political party leaders Canadian King's Counsel McGill University Faculty of Law alumni