POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Church Attendance, Front De Libération Du Québec, Canadian Nationalism
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It was a fight for responsible government: had own parliament but laws weren"t being followed. A lot of the leaders are anglophone. A number of people are hung, and a large number of others are sent to australia. The durham report will profoundly change the nationalism of quebec: durham wants assimilation, objective of the french in north america is to survive as their own people, with language, culture, religion. The tool to survive is to have a lot of children. The catholic church became the main institution of french canada; told women it was their patriotic duty to have a lot of children. Bourassa: more liberal that the other men, defends the church but more similar to what is happening in ireland (critical of. Despair when canadians go to war every time that britain goes to war. They mobilize against boer wars as well as conscription in wwi and wwii. La survivance: there is almost xenophobia in there.