Chapter 3.10: Quiet Revoluton

Question 1

Which party takes over after Duplessis’ death? In what year?

Answer 1

Parti Liberal PM Lesage in 1960

Question 2

What do the slogans “Maîtres chez nous” and “C’est le temps qu’ça change” represent?

Answer 2

’60s PL ready to take hold of prov’s economic/social dev

Question 3

Who introduces the welfare state in QC? What does it mean?

Answer 3

’60s PL; gov’t helping to protect citizens from social risks, providing for needs; social services (ex medicare)

Question 4

What was l’équipe du tonnerre?

Answer 4

PL’s Lesage + Levesque + 2 more; create new ministries and laws, gov’t corporations, eliminate Church’s power on health edu and social affairs.

Question 5

In what year is hospitalization insurance introduced?

Answer 5

1960

Question 6

When are the ministries of Cultural Affairs and Revenue created?

Answer 6

1961

Question 7

What is the SGF? When is it introduced?

Answer 7

Finance plan for QC businesses, 1962

Question 8

In what year do almost all private elec companies nationalize?

Answer 8

1963

Question 9

When is the ministry of Education created?

Answer 9

1964

Question 10

When is the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) introduced?

Answer 10

1964

Question 11

What reformation does the Labour Code get? When?

Answer 11

Public service workers given the right to strike, 1964

Question 12

In what year is the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec created? What for ?

Answer 12

1964, handles QC money to invest and make more

Question 13

What are SOQUEM and SIDBEC? When are they created?

Answer 13

Mining and steel industries, 1964

Question 14

When is the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs created?

Answer 14

1967

Question 15

When is the Société d’habitaton du Québec created?

Answer 15

1967

Question 16

How is political campaign spending reformed in the 60s?

Answer 16

• Officials appointed to verify money spendings of candidates
• Mandatory public reports of electoral spendings

Question 17

What is the Quebec Election Act of 1963?

Answer 17

Prevent legal entities from financing parties for better treatment

• Cannot donate more than 3k$ to a party/year
• 100$+ donations must be made public

Question 18

How was voting made more representative during the 60s?

Answer 18

More electoral districts created, voting age lowered from 21 to 18

Question 19

What was La ligue des droits et libertés? What consequence does it have?

Answer 19

• PET and Thérèse Casgrain, among others; goal to create a QC declaration of rights and freedoms
• Creation of Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms in 1975

Question 20

What is the importance of QC’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Answer 20

• Prohibits discrimination on race, sex, religion, language, sexual preference, age, disability
• Only charter to discuss relations between people; obliged to help someone in danger, family of a senior obliged to provide security and protection

Question 21

What causes the Francophones to begin to fear they would become a minority in their own province in the early-mid 1900s?

Answer 21

Influx of immigrants choosing English

Question 22

How does QC begin to protect its culture/language in the mid 1900s?

Answer 22

Immigrants required to send children to a french school

Question 23

What is bill 63?

Answer 23

Parents could choose what language school to send their children

Question 24

What is bill 22?

Answer 24

Required children to go to french school unless they could pass an english language test

Question 25

What is bill 101/Charter of the French Language?

Answer 25

1976, PQ Levesque

• All children to go to french school unless family has gone to english
• French laws recognized only
• 50+ employee companies must have french software
• Ads/signs must have French be bigger than english
• Office de la langue francaise (language police) created

Question 26

What is Les Insolences du Frère Untel? How does it affect the Church?

Answer 26

Book criticising Church, causing many to abandon the religion in the 60s