POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pierre Trudeau, Quebec Nationalism, Jean Lesage
Document Summary
Quebec in 1960: modernized quebec, assumed control of education and social programs from catholic. In the 1960s/70s trudeau warned english canada that we had to adopt new policies to address the english-french cleavage or quebec would separate. Federal liberal government strategy to combat quebecois nationalism in 1960s-1980s: liberal government strategy and then under pm mike pearson and then under pm. Pierre trudeau was to bind the loyalties of french-canadians to the federal state: official bilingualism was to compel the federal public service to become bilingual and make the federal state attractive to french-canadians. Idea was that french-speaking canadians should feel that all of canada was a positive environment for them. Changes to the symbolic order to placate french-canadians: remove british elements from important national symbols and institutions and instead. Canadianize the image of the country: eg. Separatism in quebec: limits to what quiet revolution could achieve, top private sector managerial jobs in the provincial economy were still controlled by the.
