Editing Parti Québécois (section)

===Formation===
The PQ is the result of the 1968 merger between the [[Mouvement Souveraineté-Association]], founded by [[René Lévesque]] (a former [[Quebec Liberal Party]] cabinet minister), and the [[Ralliement national]].<ref name="Crouch2009">{{cite book|author=Cameron I. Crouch|title=Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMaOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51|date=10 September 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-23018-0|page=51}}</ref> Following the creation of the PQ, the [[Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale]] held a general assembly that voted to dissolve the RIN. Its former members were invited to join the new Parti Québécois.

The PQ's primary goals were to obtain political, economic and social autonomy for the province of Quebec. Lévesque introduced the strategy of referendums early in the 1970s.<ref>https://montrealgazette.com/news/echoing/6255813/story.html#ixzz1oMhu9Q2n {{dead link|date=October 2012}}</ref>