POLS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Quebec Nationalism, Pierre Trudeau

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 205
• Professor: Charles Smith

Document Summary

By the 1970s, quebec sovereignty is given a voice in the pg. The election of the pq on november 15, 1976 sends shock waves through the country. The pq has as an aggressive agenda for change: social democratic, national bourgeois, continuation of state nationalism, new middle class, alliance with labour, nationalist populism: quebecois nation and bill 101. Pq also has important role in quebec labour movement. 1st term pq passes bill 101 (charter of the french language engrained in nationalist movement in quebec, enforces specific linguistic division in quebec, language takes on identity and intuitional roles, reflects nationalist identity) Quebecois nationalism is tied to language and cuts across multiple theories (post-structuralism; conflict theory, structural functionalism. Li(cid:271)eral (cid:894)offi(cid:272)ial la(cid:374)guage a(cid:272)t, bill 22(cid:895) (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g fre(cid:374)(cid:272)h que(cid:271)e(cid:272)"s offi(cid:272)ial la(cid:374)guage i(cid:374) (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) areas. Pq (charter of french language, bill 101) normal language of work, education, communication, and businesses.