Québec History 28 - Quiet Revolution and FLQ

Québec a Nation History part 28 - Quiet Revolution and the FLQ

The Quiet Revolution (French: Révolution tranquille) was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, characterized by the rapid and effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state (État-providence) and a re-alignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions.

The provincial government took over the fields of health care and education, which had been in the hands of the Roman Catholic Church. It created ministries of Education and Health, expanded the public service, and made massive investments in the public education system and provincial infrastructure. The government allowed unionization of the civil service. It took measures to increase Québécois control over the province's economy and nationalized electricity production and distribution.

The Front de Libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front), commonly known as the FLQ, was a left-wing nationalist revolutionary group in Quebec active between 1963 and 1972. It was responsible for over 200 violent incidents which killed eight people and injured many more, including the bombing of the Montreal Stock Exchange in 1969. These attacks culminated in 1970 with what is known as the October Crisis, in which British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped and Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was murdered. Founded in the early 1960s, it supported the Quebec independence.

Although the Quiet Revolution was a period of unbridled economic and social development in Quebec, it also must be credited for the surge in Quebec nationalism, which remains a controversial topic in modern Quebec society. The societal and economic innovations of the Quiet Revolution, which empowered Quebecers from all the different levels of society eventually led to what could be considered a logical outcome: the rise of Quebec Nationalism.[10] While visiting Montreal for Expo 67, General Charles de Gaulle proclaimed Vive le Québec libre! in a speech at Montreal City Hall, which gave the Quebec independence movement further public credibility.

Hydro-Québec is a nationalized government-owned public utility established by the Government of Quebec. Based in Montreal, the company is in charge of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity across Quebec. With fifty-nine hydroelectric and one nuclear generating stations, Hydro-Québec is the world's largest hydroelectric generating company. The combined capacity of its power stations was 36,429 megawatts and its distribution network served over 4,1 million customers in 2009.

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[MomSaysImCool]

What bothers me about the sovereigntists is that they identify Canada as being divided between English Canadians and French Canadians. Those two peoples certainly exist, but then there are also Ukrainian-Canadians, Indo-Canadians, Swedish-Canadians, etc. We are a multicultural country. I'm proud to be French Canadian, but I don't think that my culture is more worthy of a state than any other.

[Patriote17]

@MomSaysImCool you don't seem to realize that we do not accept to live in a multicultural country. The people of Québec have one language and one culture. Swedish-Canadian, Indo-Canadian, ect, are immigrants. They didn't built the country, their family didn't lived here for hundreds of years. They are welcome in Québec but they have to respect our language and culture. That does not means they have to forget their old culture. That simply mean they must adapt to our culture, not the contrary.

[Patriote17]

@MomSaysImCool our people built Québec, we have live here for 400 years, more then 15 generations. Québec is ours, we won't let anybody stole that land from us. The French were ally with 90% of the natives tribes in N.American, they signed treaty that acknowledge Québec territory as French. Québec is a legal colony on this continent. We have more legitimity in N.American then anybody else. True owner of N.America are Natives, we are the only one who fucking asked their permission to live here.

[knightschwartz]

Quebec has abandon god. Too bad. The west is being destroyed. 50 percent of Paris newborns are black (the left loves it!).

[Patriote17]

@knightschwartz I believe in Jesus, the man and his word, I do not believe in an invisible being who rule us from the sky. God exist only in our mind, if we stop believing in him, he will die, he is weak, invisible and he do absolutly nothing for us. I am master of my own destiny. I am a man and as a man I am more powerfull then God, with my brain, my hands and with tools I can save a life, I can also take a life, god can't do that. Some men are even capable of splitting the atom of a molecule.

[Anekantavad]

As an English Canadian, I can understand why the Quebecois resented the way things were, and Rene Levesque was never the devil he was made out to be. Vive le Quebec! Vive le Canada!

[Patriote17]

@jojothedog1234 you call us coward french pig. You are the racist, you hate us. I am from Québec, so I will stay here, my family live here for 15 generations and my family is Métis. I am in my country, my ancestors built it, Québec is where I came from.

[MomSaysImCool]

@Patriote17 You make it sound as though Quebecois de souche built the country, and that other peoples are simply invited to live alongside. No, immigrants should be invited to help build the country further. To do that, you have to abandon the idea that any one culture is the model for others. As long as they obey the law of the land, adopt the values the Charters, and learn the language, we should consider them just as Quebecois as any Cayer or Tremblay.

[MomSaysImCool]

@Patriote17 Okay, so maybe you can point to some dodgy treaty du temps dont je me souviens, but most Aboriginals today would rather be part of Canada than an independent Quebec.

[Anekantavad]

@major4lee :-)

[major4lee]

@Anekantavad Thank you. An English Canadian understanding us is great positive wave! When we will be independent, we will be the best nation friends in North America. Vive le Québec et le Canada!

[BARCACROSSESTHEALPS]

Awesome. A video on Qeubec history in English! Thanks! I am trying to learn French, but this is very helpful.