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World War One Conscription Crisis
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Union National Party Created
The Union Nationale was originally a coalition of the Conservative Party and the Action libérale nationale, formed to contest the 1935 provincial election in Québec. The coalition's leaders were Maurice Duplessis of the Conservative -
WW2 Conscription Crisis
By the time they were trained the war was mostly over french english relations were the same but not broken. By 1942 reserves were startlingly low & Hitler had controlled all of europe raising the need for consriptions. -
Quebec separatist movement gains momentation
See FLQ -
Quiet Revolution
It was deemed "Quiet" because there was no blood shed. Lesage actually won the election center the motto "maitre chez nous" -meaning masters of our oen house. -
FLQ Party is born
Extreme separatist organized -
Canada gets a new flag
Under the Pearson govt.. It was decided to have flag without a british symbol on it. It also acted as a means to unity the country see p. 215 -
Canadas Immigration Policy Becomes Colour Blind
Prior to this the Immigation policy was restrictive giving perfomance to englis speaking (BR- US) applicants. Now the policy was base on the points system. Were applicats are scored. Jobs in need in Canada were given higher points than jobs in less demand -
Trudeau Becomes PM
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Official Languages Act passed
This was a product of the resaerch+ fact finding mission of the Bi- and Bi Commissison aka the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism who discovered that French Canadians alienation from the rest of Canada was growling & problematic. The Commision recommeded bilingualism in an attempt to unify the country -
FLQ Crisis (Oct 5, 2970) aka October Crisis,
after growing separatist sentiments, the FLQ stepped up their acts of aggresion by kidnapping the British diplomat, James Cross. The FLQ prisoners before releasing Cross. FLQ later kidnaps Pierre la porte.Trudeau enacts War measures act, but la ports strangled body is found intruck of car -
Bill 22 introduces by Robert Bourassa
This made French the only language of Qubec (Not bilingual like the rest of Canada)
Rational: Declinging birth rates in quebec, saw the slow death of french canadians -
Referendum on Sovereignty Association
referendum launched by Premier René Lévesque and his Parti Québécois, voters were asked if they wanted to negotiate sovereignty-association from the rest of Canada. The "Non" side eventually won.
Sovereignty-association was a limited form of separation from Canada. The Parti Québécois wanted the province to have "the exclusive power to make its laws, levy its taxes and establish relations abroad -
1982 Patriation of the Constitution.
Trudeau wanted to bring the BNA back to canada, at first non of the provinces primiers could agree on what terms they all wanted on the constituition. After a long meeting, they all went to the hotel bar without the qubec primier and they came to terms with what they wanted without quebec. Becasue of this Quebec never signed the constituition. -
Constitution Act
The Constitution Act, 1982 enshrined the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution, and completed the unfinished business of Canadian independence — allowing Canadians to amend their own Constitution without requiring approval from Britain. -
Brian Mulroney becomes Prime Minister
Martin Brian Mulroney, PC, CC, GOQ, lawyer, businessman, politician, leader of the Progressive Conservative party, became prime minister of Canada -
Bloc Quebecois Formed
In November 1987, one week after the death of René Lévesque, Pierre-Marc Johnson resigned as PQ leader. Jacques Parizeau, a stauncher champion of independence, was the main contender to replace him and became party leader on 19 March 1988. -
Reform Party Created
The party's platform included traditional prairie populist reform panaceas such as free trade and direct democracy (referendums, initiatives and recall), and some contemporary proposals such as the Triple-E (equal, elected and effective) Senate. -
Meech Lake Accord
n 1987 the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attempted to win Québec's consent to the revised Canadian Constitution -
Charlottetown Accord
The Charlottetown Accord of 1992 was a failed, joint attempt by the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and all 10 provincial premiers to amend the Canadian Constitution, specifically to obtain Quebec's consent to the Constitution Act of 1982 -
Parti Quebecois returned to power
In the Québec general election of September 1994, the Parti Québécois was returned to power with 44.7 per cent of the votes and 77 seats in the National Assembly — a strong majority. -
2nd Referendum on Sovereignty Association
On 12 June 1995, three political parties — Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), the Parti Québécois, and the Bloc Québécois (a new sovereignist party on the federal scene, serving as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons) — signed an agreement by which they formed the “Yes” Committee and collaborated on formulating the question for a new referendum on Québec sovereignty -
Clarity Bill and the Supreme Court decision
This legislation was designed to give effect to the opinion in the
Quebec Secession Reference rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada on August 20, 1998.The Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the National Assembly, legislature or government of Quebec do not have, either under Canadian law or international law, the right to effect the secession of Quebec from Canada unilaterally.However, the court also emphasized that the rest of Canada would have a political obligation to negotiate -
Bill 101 passed
Introduced by Camille Laurin, Bill 101, Charte de la langue française (1977), made French the official language of government and of the courts in the province of Québec, as well as making it the normal and habitual language of the workplace, of instruction, of communications, of commerce and of business.