HIST 3580 Lecture : March 6 - Lecture.docx
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Quiet revolution: as long as quebec maintained a dominant french speaking, they could maintain its identity, central components of quebec"s identity was disappearing within years, modernization made it indistinguishable from the rest of canada, even its language was being threatened by declining french canadian birth rate after the war and influx of immigrants, this began to worry quebec nationalists, by 1960s, these nationalists began dividing into two groups, provincial autonomists, they argued that quebecs cultural identity could only be preserved if the federal government stopped sticking its nose in provincial jurisdictions, wanted ottawa to surrender some of its powers to quebec government, this branded nationalist tended to be found in quebec liberal party, other nationalists believed that the province should separate from canada, separatists, the rise of these new forms of nationalism in quebec, naturally entailed a clash with the federal government, it was bound to lead to a fight with government.
