HISTORY 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pierre Trudeau, Baby Boomers, Premarital Sex
14 Apr 2018
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When baby boomers came of age, they started to call in question some of the values of society (culturally and politically) Many people began to call in question the choices and ideas of pierre trudeau. Canada in the 1950s (portrayed in very conservative terms; very traditional and na ve, with middle class comforts very complacent) Canada in the 1960s (canadian values were called into question: lots of currents and countercurrents, better developed political critique of canada and united states, emergence of more youth centered counter-culture, rise of hippie culture, e. g. Yorkville in the 1960s: folk singers would come and perform, more edgy than in the present. The willingness to talk openly about taboo issues (e. g. sexuality, contraception, pre-marital sex, homosexuality, and abortion) Baby boomers were starting to level off due to birth control. On the federal level: pierre elliot trudeau presided over a very reformist department of.
