POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Charter Of The French Language, Biculturalism
21 Jan 2017
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Canada used to have most racist immigration laws, now most accommodating. 1960 - internal changes, lesage wanted to modernize qu, but keep french, isolated french industry. 1968 - biculturalism and bilingualism - one of most successful royal commision royal commision - send researchers out into country to find out trends, ex. whos speaking french. Non-existent french media researchers printed 100 recommendations, most ever by r. c. these became rules of official languages act. At this point, qu already wanted to separate. 1970 - flq= terrorist group, separatist trudeau had to use war measures act. 1976 - quebecois tremendous win in election, rene leveque, promoted sovereignty association - separate politically, stay connected economically. Bill 101 - controversial provisions restricted minority education rights, if you were english in qu, your child had to go to a french school. Any business with more than 50 employees had to operate solely in french, changed to 11 french sole, official language in qu.
