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Author: Graham Fraser
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009421
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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From 1963 until 1971, a group of distinguished Canadians wrestled with the language conflict that ran the risk of tearing the country apart. Among their ranks, F.R. Scott – a poet, intellectual, constitutional expert, human rights activist, and law professor – kept diaries that recounted the meetings of one of Canada’s most significant royal commissions. The Fate of Canada introduces readers to Scott’s biography, puts his diary entries into the political context of the time, and identifies the people he met and the places he visited during the hearings of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Scott’s journal entries recording the earliest meetings convey optimism for a bilingual Canada. As the years pass, however, he becomes increasingly concerned that bilingualism is in danger, and Quebec’s English community threatened. His remarks convey a sense of humour and mutual respect amongst the commissioners despite the tensions over language within the group – and across the country. Scott was a champion of English-language rights in Quebec. Never before published, these diaries provide remarkable insight into the inner life of one of twentieth-century Canada’s most significant intellectuals, and a royal commission that shaped the nation’s language policy for decades to come.

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1036

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Author: John Meisel
Publisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886451738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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This collection of papers seeks to bridge the divide between English and French Canada by bringing to light the distinctive viewpoints of those two sides regarding historical events. It chronicles 34 events that have marked political relations between the two linguistic communities from the arrival of the British in 1759 through to the 1995 Quebec referendum. Each event is summarized from the viewpoint of both Anglophones and Francophones. Chapter 1 covers early events including the British conquest, the 1830s rebellions, Confederation, and the hanging of Louis Riel. Chapter 2 covers the making of the welfare state, including unemployment insurance, tax rental agreements, pension plans, and health insurance. Chapter 3 covers Canadian identity events such as creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, adoption of a new flag, and bilingualism & multiculturalism policies. Chapter 4 covers events in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution, including the DeGaulle visit in 1967, the October 1970 crisis, Quebec language laws, and the 1982 patriation of the Constitution. Chapter 5 covers economic debates, including the Churchill Falls power contract and the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The final chapter is entitled "Failed reconciliation" and includes papers on the Meech Lake Accord, the 1990 crisis at Oka, and the Charlottetown accord of 1992. Includes index.

Author: Dominique Clift
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773504141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: QUEBEC. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON THE POSITION OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND ON LANGUAGE RIGHTS IN QUEBEC.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Marc Levine
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439903808
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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An examination of the nature of the linguistic transformation of Montreal and the role of public policy in promoting it.

Author: Garth Stevenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773567755
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from their francophone neighbours for almost a century after Confederation. He describes their relations with Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale and their ambivalent response to the Quiet Revolution. New political issues - language policy, educational reform, sovereignty, and the constitution - undermined the old system of elite accommodation in Quebec, causing conflicts between anglophones and francophones and creating a new sense of anglophone identity that transcends religious differences. The changing relations of Quebec anglophones with the major political parties, as well as the role of newer entities such as Alliance Quebec and the Equality Party, are also examined. Stevenson concludes with a look at the future of anglophones in Quebec. Based in part on interviews with more than sixty English-speaking Quebecers who have played prominent parts in Quebec's political life, Community Besieged is a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the political life of this unique minority at both the federal and provincial level.

Author: Michael D. Behiels
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809

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In the last seventy years, Quebec has changed from a society dominated by the social edicts of the Catholic Church and the economic interests of anglophone business leaders to a more secular culture that frequently elects separatist political parties and has developed the most comprehensive welfare state in North America. In Contemporary Quebec, leading scholars raise provocative questions about the ways in which Quebec has been transformed since the Second World War and offer competing interpretations of the reasons for the province's quiet and radical revolutions.

Author: Québec (Province). Assemblée nationale. Commission sur l'avenir politique et constitutionnel du Québec
Publisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780889821125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Canada. Bilingual Districts Advisory Board
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Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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