Quiet Revolution

The Quiet Revolution The purpose of this paper is to analyze the aspects of The Quiet Revolution on Quebec, and how the changes implemented by Lesage made Quebec the province it is today. The Quiet Revolution was only quiet at name; it triggered many conflicts that appeared in Quebec. The province began to move away from Catholic Church with the help of nationalists, leaving Quebec reformed and quite different from how it was before the 1960’s. Before the Quiet Revolution, Quebec was majorly

two groups reached a climax during the 1960’s. All hopes of partnership and cooperation between the two seemed to disappear after the change in provincial leadership. This period of massive reform that overtook Quebec was given the name: “The Quiet Revolution.” It did not only cause division within the nation, but als, rifts within Quebec itself. The province was an unstable society “where rapid changes [had] occurred, but which [had] not absorbed [those] transformations at an equal rate.” Groups

divided, and the 1995 referendum showed how Québec and Canada had a tumultuous relationship. All of Canada was affected, but this debate targeted mostly English Canadians and French Canadians. The lack of unity between both cultures resulted in the Quiet Revolution in 1960’s, which was the starting point for the sovereignty movement. The inability of Québec and Canada to resolve their differences regarding Québec separation resulted in events that affected the whole country. People participated in acts

The Quiet Revolution is characterized as the events that took place in Quebec following the death of Quebec’s conservative Premier Maurice Duplessis in 1959 and the election of Jean Lesage and his Liberals the following year. The era marked a period of unprecedented political and social change for the province and also the development of the Quebecois identity. Under Lesage, the Laissez-Faire ideology, dominant from 1945 to 1960, gave way to energetic activism. Government action became the

redistribution Noël argues, that the defeat of the referendum and a high deficit, that required fiscal austerity to resolve it, led old and new social actors in Quebec to mobilize and work with the Quebec government to introduce new social policies. The quiet revolution, to Noël, was less about catching up to the rest of Canada than it was about removing the traps of inequality and mistrust of the state that had prevented social progress. The creation of a welfare state in this context of strong government intervention

Undoubtedly, the social institution of the Roman Catholic Church played an important role in developing the identity of Quebec. Even from the beginning of colonization the Church influenced the politics and policies of New France through to the Quiet Revolution. Having reached the peak of its influence and power the Church sought to ‘sacralized’ or ‘Christianize’ all aspects of the French Canadian society. Many movements were established during the period 1896-1960. The “French Catholic universities

which allowed workers to speak French entirely, guaranteed the Quebec economy benefits, and adjusted wages. Finally, the Quiet Revolution allowed the rest of Canada to hear the nationalist views of Quebecers after the FLQ terrorist group terrorized several mailboxes, kidnapped James Cross and killed Pierre Laporte. Jean Lesage was known to be the “father of the Quiet Revolution” by many for the multiple changes he was able to bring in the 1960s. The first change he brought to Quebec was subsiding

Between 1960's to present day terrorism has occurred many times in Canada. To start off, specifically in the 1960's when Quebec was holding a Quiet Revolution. This was a social change happening in Quebec. To continue, during this time president of France Charles de Gaulle came to Montreal Quebec where he would say a speech effecting Canada forever. " Vive le Quebec Libre" was the ending statement to his speech, this statement would be scribbled on the wall on the site of the very first bomb of

well-known example of this in Quebec was during the Quiet Revolution which strengthened the need for change through Premier Lesage’s reforms and in turn, developed a strong sense of nationalism in Quebec. In contrast to beliefs that the rapid modernization of the Quiet Revolution had a positive impact on Quebec, it rather had a negative impact on Quebec and its citizens and identity. The three consequences which arose in Quebec as a result of the revolution are the encouragement of separatism, the elimination

The religious situation in the post-Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) Québec has evolved into a complex social debate where some adherents consider religion a necessity for our public institutions, whereas some detractors threat it as a taboo subject that one should keep part of his/her private life. The overcoming of the Duplessis’ Great Darkness (Grande Noirceur) reign was echoed by major political and social changes where the clerical-dominated State was questioned and ultimately democratically