Term Papers on Quebec

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Quebec

Quebec's Quiet revolution: What is it? How has it changed
Quebec's society? How has it affected Confederation? The
English-French relations have not always been easy. Each is
always arguing and accusing the other of wrong doings. All
this hatred and differences started in the past, and this Quiet
revolution, right after a new Liberal government led by Jean
Lesage came in 1960. Thus was the beginning of the Quiet
Revolution. Lesage had an excellent team of cabinet
ministers which included Rene Levesque. The Liberals
promised to do two things during the Quiet Revolution; one
was to improve economic and social standards for the
people of Quebec, and the other was to win greater respect
and recognition for all the French people of Canada. The
Liberals started a program to take control of hydro-electric
power companies. French-Canadian engineers from all over
Canada returned to Quebec to work on the project. Slogans
during these times were "we can do it" and "masters in our
own homes". The government also started to replace
programs the Church previously ran, which included hospital
insurance, pension schemes and the beginning of Medi-Care.
For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle
with Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars. One of the
greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire school
system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec.
Most of the teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They
provided a good education but Quebec needed more in
business and technology. Lesage wanted a government-run
school system that would provide Quebec with people in
engineering, science, business and commerce. With the new
freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and music about
French culture were all developed in Quebec. French
contemporary playwrights were very famous during that
time. However, not all was going well in Quebec. The
French-English relation was going bad. Many studies
showed that French-Canadian Quebecers were earning the
lowest wage in all of the ethnic groups in Canada. Other
complaints were that the top jobs in Quebec were given to
English speaking Canadians. Canada was going through the
worst crisis in its history, and unless equal partnership was
found a break-up would likely happen. Some Quebecers
thought that separation was the only solution. They thought
that as long as Quebec was associated with the rest of
Canada, French-Canadians would never be treated equal.
The FLQ (Front De Libération Du Québec) was founded in
1963. It was a smaller, more forceful group of separatists.
They were a collection of groups of young people whose
idea was to use terrorism to achieve independence for
Quebec. The ALQ (L'Armée de Libération de Quebec) was
even more of a violent separatist group. Some of their
actions included robbing banks in order to get money. For
their ammunition they had to raid arms depots of the
Canadian Armed Forces. There were many Federalists that
believed that separatism had no future and that
French-Canadians could play a role in a bi-lingual Canada.
There were three Quebec men that believed in Federalism.
These men were Liberals and their names were Pierre
Trudeau, Jean Marchand and Gérard Pelletier. The
President of France, General De Gaulle came to Quebec in
1967 and gave speeches t...

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