Quebec-Canada Timeline

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    Quebec's relations with the rest of Canada

  • Aboriginal people living on reserves won the right to vote

  • Three Canadian army buildings in Montreal are bombed by the FLQ

  • The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is appointed

  • Canada’s maple leaf flies for the first time

  • Canada’s immigration policy becomes officially “colour blind”

  • Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister

  • René Lévesque forms the Parti Québécois

  • Official Languages Act is passed, making Canada officially a bilingual country

  • FLQ crisis in Quebec leads Prime Minister Trudeau to invoke war measures act

  • Member of the FLQ kidnap James Cross and Pierre Laporte, later killing Laporte

  • Federal Government introduces multiculturalism policy

  • Quebec holds a referendum on sovereignty- association

  • The Constitution is patriated without Quebecs agreement

  • The reform party is formed to be the voice of western Canada

  • Charlottetown Accord rejected in referendum

  • BC Treaty Commission is established

  • Second referendum on Quebec sovereignty is held

  • Nunavut is created

  • Nisga'a Treaty is given royal assent