SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pierre Laporte, War Measures Act, Ethnic Nationalism
8 Apr 2016
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Learning intentions: to examine relationships among education, ethnonationalism, and non-violence in quebec. The quebec nationalist movement has been dominated by an educated elite. Educated members of the intelligentsia and provincial public service have played influential roles in the movement. Per capita spending on education in constant dollars increased from . 85 in 1945 to . 83 by 1970. By 1970 this was a level of per capita spending that was over 23 times greater than just 25 years earlier. In 1952, only 4% of francophones of secondary-school age attended school. The province approached universal secondary attendance by the late 1960s. Public sector provincial employees appear to have disproportionately supported independence. The public sector was active in promoting state economic management to modernize quebec and improve the economic position of francophone quebeckers. Opportunities for francophones, in business and federal administration were quite limited in the 1950s and 1960s. Anglophones held top positions and earned considerably more than francophones.
