MGMT 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Potash, Vale Limited, Canadian Labour Congress
9 May 2018
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MGMT 1030
Lecture 47
A) The West
➢ Postwar resource boom has fuelled Western prosperity
➢ Alberta’s oil fields
➢ mixture of large oil companies and small independents
➢ extensive provincial government intervention in the oil
industry from the 1930s
➢ Saskatchewan’s potash industry
➢ largely controlled by multinationals until the intervention of
the provincial government in the 1970s
B) Quebec
➢ Quebec’s traditional francophone economic elite before
the 1960s was composed of smaller proprietors
➢ Vachon family
➢ Beaudoin family
➢ Maurice Duplessis often encouraged the presence of
large foreign companies in developing Quebec’s resources
before 1959
➢ Quiet Revolution of the 1960s brought state intervention
to promote francophone interests
➢ Société Générale de Financement
➢ Sidbec
➢ Hydro Quebec
➢ Caisse de depot
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Document Summary
Mixture of large oil companies and small independents extensive provincial government intervention in the oil industry from the 1930s. Saskatchewan"s potash industry largely controlled by multinationals until the intervention of the provincial government in the 1970s: quebec. Quebec"s traditional francophone economic elite before the 1960s was composed of smaller proprietors. Maurice duplessis often encouraged the presence of large foreign companies in developing quebec"s resources before 1959. Quiet revolution of the 1960s brought state intervention to promote francophone interests. Tlc-ccl merger in canada canadian labour congress formed in 1956. New democratic party (ndp) formed in 1961. Government workers not allowed to unionize before 1939. Growing role of government 8% of workforce in civil service in. 1941; 20% of workforce in civil service in 1965. Public service staff relations act (1967) extended collective bargaining to 260,000 of 400,000 federal workers. Annual inflation rate of 4. 9% in 1972 rose to 15% in 1975. Strike activity increased to protest loss of earning power.
