LABR 3P13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lucien Bouchard, Gilles Duceppe, Charlottetown Accord

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 3P13
• Professor: Murry Cooke

Document Summary

The controversy over and then the collapse of the meech lake accord (a proposed constitutional amendment) led to a renewed sovereignty movement in 1990. This led to the rise of the block quebecois, initially led by former progressive conservative cabinet minister lucien bouchard. Former csn staff member, gilles duceppe won a federal by-election in 1990. He was supported by all three labour centrals. All three union centrals, opposed the charlottetown accord and supported quebec independence. While (cid:862)the e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) positio(cid:374) of fra(cid:374)(cid:272)opho(cid:374)e (cid:449)orker (cid:448)is-a-vis their anglophone counterparts had i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)ed dra(cid:373)ati(cid:272)ally throughout the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)s a(cid:374)d (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)s(cid:863) the la(cid:271)our (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as (cid:373)ore solidly behind the independence movement in the early 90s (savage, 2008: 876) The labour movement had long dropped their socialist rhetoric, but supported the issue of national independence for quebec. Again, after losing the referendum, a pq government (now led by lucien bouchard) turned to austerity and attacked the labour movement.