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French English Relations
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WW1 Conscription crisis
Strained relations between french and englisg speaking Canadians. By the middle of the war french canadians felt that they had done enough in the European theatre and opposed sendng more troops to the front.
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Union National Party Created
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Duplesis/ Era of great darkness
Duplesis was known for supporting the catholic Church and catholic education. Resulting in Quebec schools graduating many teachers, philosiphers, and theslogians NOT buisnessmen, entreprenuers etc.. As a result Qubecs economy becomes stagnant.
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WW2 Conscription Crisis
By the time they were trained the war was mostly over french english relations were the same but not broken. By 1942 resvers were startiling low & Hitler had controlled all of europe raising the need for consriptions.
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Quebec separatist movement gains momentation
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Quiet Revolution
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It was deemed "Quiet" because there was no blood shed. Lesage actually won the election center the motto "maitre chez nous" -meaning masters of our oen house. -
FLQ Party is born
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Canada gets a new flag
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Canadas Immigration Policy Becomes Colour Blind
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Official Languages Act passed
This was a product of the resaerch+ fact finding mission of the Bi- and Bi Commissison aka the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism who discovered that French Canadians alienation from the rest of Canada was growling & problematic. The Commision recommeded bilingualism in an attempt to unify the country -
FLQ Crisis (Oct 5, 2970) aka October Crisis,
linkAfter growing separatist sentiments, the FLQ stepped up their acts of aggresion by kidnapping the British diplomat, James Cross. The FLQ prisoners before releasing Cross. FLQ later kidnaps Pierre la porte.Trudeau enacts War measures act, but la ports strangled body is found intruck of car -
Trudeau enacts Policy of Multi Culturalism
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Bill 22 introduces by Robert Bourassa
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Immigration Policy allows for the Sponsorship Program
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Families and buisnesses could "vouch for" or sponsor a new immigrant, meaning they would take responsibility for this new persons set up in canada
Parti quebecois: passes Bill 101- (similar to Bill 22 but also requires all signage to change to French in Qubec, all gov't offices, schools, everywhere. -
Bill 101 passed
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Introduced by Camille Laurin, Bill 101, Charte de la langue française (1977), made French the official language of government and of the courts in the province of Québec, as well as making it the normal and habitual language of the workplace, of instruction, of communications, of commerce and of business. -
Referendum on Sovereignty Association
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referendum launched by Premier René Lévesque and his Parti Québécois, voters were asked if they wanted to negotiate sovereignty-association from the rest of Canada. The "Non" side eventually won.
Sovereignty-association was a limited form of separation from Canada. The Parti Québécois wanted the province to have "the exclusive power to make its laws, levy its taxes and establish relations abroad -
Constitution Act
linkThe Constitution Act, 1982 enshrined the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution, and completed the unfinished business of Canadian independence — allowing Canadians to amend their own Constitution without requiring approval from Britain. -
1982 Patriation of the Constitution.
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Trudeau wanted to bring the BNA back to canada, at first non of the provinces primiers could agree on what terms they all wanted on the constituition. After a long meeting, they all went to the hotel bar without the qubec primier and they came to terms with what they wanted without quebec. Becasue of this Quebec never signed the constituition. -
Brian Mulroney becomes Prime Minister
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Bloc Quebecois Formed
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Reform Party Created
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The party's platform included traditional prairie populist reform panaceas such as free trade and direct democracy (referendums, initiatives and recall), and some contemporary proposals such as the Triple-E (equal, elected and effective) Senate. -
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Charlottetown Accord
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Parti Quebecois returned to power
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2nd Referendum on Sovereignty Association
linkOn 12 June 1995, three political parties — Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), the Parti Québécois, and the Bloc Québécois (a new sovereignist party on the federal scene, serving as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons) — signed an agreement by which they formed the “Yes” Committee and collaborated on formulating the question for a new referendum on Québec sovereignty -
Clarity Bill and the Supreme Court decision
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Quebec Secession Reference rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada on August 20, 1998.The Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the National Assembly, legislature or government of Quebec do not have, either under Canadian law or international law, the right to effect the secession of Quebec from Canada unilaterally.However, the court also emphasized that the rest of Canada would have a political obligation to negotiate Quebec'
