The Parti Chevreuil (which means "Deer Party") was a very short-lived Quebec provincial political party. It gained official status in Quebec on June 20, 1994 after 15 months of work by its founders, seed grocer Mathieu Trudelle and teacher Charles Tardif, to harvest the 1,000 signatures necessary by electoral law. Trudelle, who was 20 years old at the time, had the idea while studying sociology at the Cegep de Sherbrooke and wanted to know how to create a new political party.