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WWI Conscription Crisis
WWI Conscription -Strained relations between French and English speaking canadians.
- By the middle of the war the French Canadians felt they had done enough in the European theater and opposded sending more troops to the fronts. -
Union National Party Created
National PartyThe Union National Party was originally a coalition of the Conservative Party and the Action libérale nationale that was formed to contest the 1935 provincial election in Québec. The coalition's leaders were Maurice Duplessis (Conservative Party) and Paul Gouin (ALN) -
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Deplessis/ era of Great Darkness
1959 Duplessis: premeir of Qubeec and leader of Union National Party beclived qubeec should be reconized as a disticnt socity
bribery and corroperation where also its trade marks Deplessis: was known for supporting the Cathoilc Church and Catholic education. Resulting in Qubeec school graduating many teachers, phylosiphers, theogians and NOT buisness enterpernuouris ect... as a reslut Qubeecs economy comes stangent -
WWII Conscription Crisis
WWII Conscription Crisis By the time they where trained the war was mostly over. French and English relations strained but not brocken.
- by 1942 reserves where startngingly ow and kilter had controlled of Europe raising the need for conscription. -
Qulet Reveloution
Quite Reveloution It was deemed quite because there was no blood shed.
- Lesage actually won the election under the moto, " maitre chez nous" meaning masters of or own house
- Jean lesage replaces duplessas after his death and starts modernizing education policial and lture FLQ party was born
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Qubec Separist movemnt gains momentum
Seperatism- extream separaist organization
-Quiet Revolution begins in Quebec after Deplesis death -
Canada gets a new Flag
LinkUnder the Person Govt.
it was desided to have have a flag with out a British Symbol on it.
it also acted as a means to unify the country -
immgration polociy becomes color blind
LinkPrior to this the immigration policy was restrivtice giving reference to English speaking applicants.
now the policy was baised on a points system were applicants scored Jobs in need I Canada re giving higher points then jobs in need in Canada weere givin higher points then jobs in less demand.. ect -
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Offical Langouges Act
LinkThis was a product of the reasurch + ace- finding misson of the Bi - and Bi Commison aka the Royal Commisson on Biliangualism and Bicaltureal and discorvered the French Canadians alenation from the rest of Canada was growing and problimatic. The commission recommended biliangulism in atempt to unify the country -
FLQ Crisis October Crissis and The War Measurements Act
Link 2 War Measurment ActLink 2 The War Measurements Act Link 1After growing separatist sentiments, the FLQ stepped up their acts of aggression by kidnapping the British diplomt, James Cross. The FLQ wished the release fo their FlQ prisoners beofre releasing Cross. FLQ La Porte. Tredeau enacts War Measurements Act but La Ports stranglid body is found in trunk of car -
Trudeau enacts Policy of Multi-culturalism
LinkRecall that Trudeau is a Federalist - he belives unifying Canada, not a French separist.
Multiculturalism encouraged people to express there cultures and in doing so, would de-emphasize the French as the only cultural group in Canada. -
Bill 22 introduced by Robert Bourasso
LinkThis made French the only languages of Quebec. ( Not bilingual like the rets of Canada) Ratianale: declining birth rates in quebec saw the slow death of Fr. Can. -
Immigration Policy allows for the Sponsorship Program
-Families and businesses could " vouch for" or sponsor a new immigrant, meaning they would take responsiblity for thi new person's setup in Canada. - -
Parti Quebecois wins provincel election to Quebec
Link Parti Quebecois Passes
BIll 101- similar to Bill 22 but also requires all signage to change to French in Quebec, all gov offices, school... everywhere
-PQ is led by Renée Levesque and promises Quebec seperation by first holding a province-wide referendum on the issue. -
Bill 101 Passed
LinkIntroduced 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. -
Referndum on Sovereignty Association
LinkIt was first presented in Lévesque's political manifesto, Option Québec. The Parti Québécois defines sovereignty as the power for a state to levy all its taxes, vote on all its laws, and sign all its treaties
- Claude Ryan's speech was later in the evening. After physically refusing to let Jean Chrétien use the microphone to address those gathered, he proceeded to demand an election be called and listed every riding that had voted for the "No" side. The speech was generally seen as callous and -
Patriation of the Constitution
LinkIn 1982, Canada "patriated" its Constitution, transferring the country's highest law, the British North America Act, from the authority of the British Parliament — a connection from the colonial past — to Canada's federal and provincial legislatures. The Constitution was also updated with a new amending formula and a Charter of Rights — changes that occurred after a fierce, 18-month political and legal struggle that dominated headlines and the agendas of every government in the country. -
The Consitution Act Part 2
LinkTerritories on the other hand are created by Federal Law.
That means the territories have a bit less power than the provinces. They still have representation in the federal government, but don't have provincial governments.The biggest difference is that the provinces get to vote on changes to the constitution but the territories do not. -
Consitution Act
LinkCanada has a constitution - the Constitution Act of 1982. The constitution talks about all sorts of things, like what our official languages are and what our individual rights are. The constitution works together with our system of laws to make up the rules of the country.The constitution also indicates what provinces are a part of Canada and what the powers of those provinces are. For example, provinces have jurisdiction over education and the environment. -
Brian Mulroney becomes Prime Minister
LinkThe Tories had won just over half the popular vote, and no other party crossed the 50-seat mark -
Meech Lake Accord
LinkThe Meech Lake Accord (French: Accord du lac Meech) was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the 10 provincial premiers
It was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to symbolically endorse the 1982 constitutional amendments by providing for some decentralization of the Canadian federation.
The proposed amendments were initially popular and backed by nearly all political leaders. -
Reform Party Created
LinkThe Reform Party of Canada (French: Parti réformiste du Canada) was a right-wing populist federal political party in Canada that existed from 1987 to 2000. Reform was founded as a Western Canada-based protest movement and eventually became a populist conservative (largely socially conservative) party. Led by its founder Preston Manning, Reform rapidly gained momentum in western Canada, and successfully supplanted the PCs as the largest party in Western Canada after the 1993 election. -
Bloc Quebecois Formed
LinkThe Bloc Québécois (French pronunciation: [blɔk kebekwa]) is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty.
The Bloc was formed by Members of Parliament who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder Lucien Bouchard was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. -
Departartment of Multiculturalim formed
The Canadian Multiculturalism Act is a law, passed in 1988, that aims to preserve and enhance multiculturalism in Canada.
In 1971, Canada became one of the first countries to adopt an official multiculturalism policy.
It was not until 1988 that it became an actual law. Not only did this policy make sure equality was given to all people living in Canada, Aboriginal rights and Canada’s official languages were also set
The multiculturalism policy allows citizens to practice their religions and kee -
Meech Lake Accord
In 1987 the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attempted to win Québec's consent to the revised Canadian Constitution — following the Québec government's rejection of it in 1981. -
Charlottetown Accord
LinkThe Charlottetown Accord of 1992 was a failed joint attempt by the government of the Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney and all 10 provincial premiers to amend the Canadian Constitution. Specifically to obtain Quebec's consent to the Constitution Act of 1982. The Accord would have also decentralized many federal powers to the provinces, and it was rejected by Canadian voters in a referendum. -
Parti Quebecois returned to power
LinkIn the Québec general election of September 1994, the Parti Québécois was returned to power with 44.7 per cent of the votes and 77 seats in the National Assembly — a strong majority. -
2nd Referendum on Sovereignty Associatied
LinkThe 1995 Quebec referendum was the second time they asked voters in the Canadian province of Quebec whether or not Quebec should proclaim national sovereignty and become an independent country.
The culmination of multiple years of debate and planning after the failure of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords, the referendum was launched solely by the provincial Parti Québécois government of Jacques Parizeau. -
Clarity Bill and the Supreme Court decision
LinkSupreme Court ruled that Quebec did not have the right to separate unilaterally (wasn't allowed to decide by itself) from Canada. In order to achieve independance, Quebec would have to negotiate w/ the federal gov't, the 9 other provinces, aboriginals and other minorities living there. Negotioations could only begin after a referendum w/ a "clear majority" voted yes. -
Clarity Bill and the Supreme Court decision
LinkThis legislation was designed to give effect to the opinion in theQuebec 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'
