POLS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: War Measures Act, Pierre Laporte, Quebec Nationalism
5 Feb 2018
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Cultural revelation, a lot of american influence, english language was dominant. Nationalist awakening in this period in quebec driven by the energy of young people. Political strife in quebec leads to federal response. Liberal pm lester pearson creates royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism (1963- Report reveals that francophones are a political and economic underclass (in quebec and. Highlights lack of public service (education) outside of quebec is non-existent for francophones. Several significant quebec politicians are recruited by liberals to run: jean marchland, pelletier, Similar to indigenous people today but people in quebec have a state (provincial) to represent them. Flq kidnap james cross and later pierre laporte. Trudeau and the federal government make few concessions. Laporte"s killers eve(cid:374)tually (cid:272)aught; cross"s kid(cid:374)appers (cid:374)egotiate a plea, later prose(cid:272)uted. Civil liberties taken away a lot of francophone nationalists were detained, many people arrested, police did(cid:374)"t have reaso(cid:374) to arrest (cid:373)a(cid:374)y. Reporter got in trouble for interview because he was not neutral.
