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

Canada The Quiet Revolution in QuebecThe English- french relations render not always been easy. Each isalways arguing and accusing the another(prenominal) of wrong doings. All this hatredand differences started in the past, and this Quiet revolution, right aft(prenominal) a new Liberal government led by dungaree Lesage came in 1960. Thus wasthe runner of the Quiet Revolution.Lesage had an excellent team of footlocker ministers which includedRene Levesque. The Liberals promised to do two things during the QuietRevolution one was to reform economic and social standards for thepeople of Quebec, and the other was to win greater jimmy and recognitionfor all the French people of Canada. The Liberals started a program to carry on control of hydro-electric power companies. French-Canadian engineersfrom all over Canada returned to Quebec to work on the project. Slogansduring these times were we can do it and masters in our give birth homes. The government as salutary as start ed to replace programs the Church previously ran,which included hospital insurance, pension schemes and the beginning ofMedi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle withOttawa for a larger share of the tax dollars. one and only(a) of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entireschool system. The Church utilized to own the schools of Quebec. Most of theteachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They plyd a good educationbut Quebec needed more(prenominal) in business and technology. Lesage wanted agovernment-run school system that would provide Quebec with people inengineering, science, business and commerce.With the new freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and symphonyabout French culture were all developed 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 l owest wage in allof the ethnic groups in Canada. Other complaints were that the top jobsin Quebec were presumption to English speaking Canadians. Canada was goingthrough the worst crisis in its history, and unless capable partnership wasfound a break-up would likely happen. Some Quebecers thought that interval 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 emphatic group of separatists. They were acollection of groups of young people whose idea was to use terrorism to