Canada Flashcards
Historical Grevinaces
British colonization
borders of new France and power of the catholic church
Confederation
sovereign state being under the British parliament
as Canada was constructed through constitutional means, deconstruction of the greater entity is also done through constitutionalism
Ontario vs Quebec
French Canadians were encourage to have larger families: LA REVANCHE DES BERCEAUX ( The revenge of the cradles)
French Canadians having more babies to dominate more of the Canadian population
Massive Migration post WWII
concentrated in the hands of the clerical government
changes in the ethnic makeup of Canada
most immigrants did not know French or English and was a natural thing to opt for English
this led to national backlash in Quebec because people were choosing English
The Quiet Revolution
1960: led by The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP)- Jean Lesage
made education a provincial policy
education was linked in the hands of the church but Lesage made it in the hands of the government
The Election of the PQ to Power
Rene Levesque:
The Charter of the French Language: Bill 101
provided Quebecers with the sense of cultural security
1980: the first referendum of independence (40% yes)
Quebecers new nationalism
formed a identity
independence could be a symbol, although not the goal
represented the awaking of underdeveloped societies that were taking charge of their own history
represented the breaking away from the clerical background and English population
1982: Quebec was excluded from the Canadian constiution