Canada: The Quiet Revolution in Quebec :: Canadian Canada History

Canada The quiesce innovation in QuebecThe English-French relations have not always been easy. Each isalways parameter and accusing the other of wrong doings. All this hatredand differences started in the past, and this Quiet revolution, rightafter a new Liberal government direct by Jean Lesage came in 1960. Thus wasthe beginning of the Quiet Revolution.Lesage had an fine team of cabinet ministers which includedRene Levesque. The Liberals promised to do two things during the QuietRevolution one was to improve economic and social standards for the tidy sum of Quebec, and the other was to progress greater respect and recognitionfor solely the French people of Canada. The Liberals started a program totake control of hydro-electric power companies. French-Canadian engineersfrom all over Canada returned to Quebec to give-up the ghost on the project. Slogansduring these times were we can do it and masters in our take homes. The government also started to replace programs the church previously ran,which included infirmary insurance, pension schemes and the beginning ofMedi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle withOttawa for a larger deal out of the tax dollars.One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire check system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of theteachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education just Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted agovernment-run school system that would provide Quebec with people inengineering, science, business and commerce.With the new license of expression, lots of books, plays and musicabout French culture were all substantial in Quebec. French contemporaryplaywrights were very famous during that time. However, not all was goingwell in Quebec. The French-English relation was going bad. Many studiesshowed that French-Canadian Quebecers were earning the utmost wage in allof the ethnic groups in Cana da. Other complaints were that the screen jobsin Quebec were given to English speaking Canadians. Canada was goingthrough the blister crisis in its history, and unless equal partnership wasfound a break-up would likely happen. some(a) Quebecers thought thatseparation was the only solution. They thought that as long as Quebec wasassociated with the rest of Canada, French-Canadians would never betreated equal.The FLQ (Front De Libration Du Qubec) was founded in 1963. It was a smaller, more forceful group of separatists. They were acollection of groups of young people whose idea was to use terrorism to