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Reconciliation Quebec

  • Date Submitted: 04/03/2011 09:49 PM
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Resolving Our Differences
  Reconciliation is an act of resolving differences and repairing relationships. Reconciliation also helps bring people together so they can live in peace. After World War 2 when the U.S bombed Japan, the U.S sent over money to help rebuild Japan. By sending over money to Japan, the U.S and Japan resolved their differences. Quebec has been through lots over the past years with the Party Québécois, Bill 101, and the 1995 referendum. The Québécois have been forced to choose whether they are more loyal to Canada or Quebec.
  Québécois are very proud of their French inheritance so when Anglophones moved in to Québec and started using English more instead of French the Québécois felt like they were losing their culture and tradition. The Québécois decided to start a revolution. This was called The Quiet Revolution and it began in 1971 with the reforms enacted by the Liberal provincial government of Jean Lesage, who was elected in the June 1960 provincial election. During the 1960's and 1970's, provincial governments in Québec put in significant social, political, and economic reforms. These reforms became known as the "Quiet Revolution." The government modernized the education system to include more science and business studies, improved and social studies, and tried to promote Quebecois-owned businesses. The Québec revolution also changed Québec from a largely rural, religion-focused, French-speaking society into a modern, urban, industrial, and secular non-religious French speaking society.
  After The Quiet Revolution came the Party Québécois platform. During 1976 the Party Québécois was elected as a provincial political party whose wish was to separate from Canada. In the 1976 provincial election, the Party Québécois was elected for the first time to form the government of Québec. The party's leader was René Lévesque and he became the Premier of Québec. René Lévesque wanted Québec to separate from Canada and become a Nation State....

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