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World War One Conscription Crisis
It was a very vicious debate, french-canadians and farmers were opposed to it. The wasr-times election act was passed which allowed mother, and sisters of soldiers (the first women in canada) to vote and largely supported conscription. -
The Duplesiss Era/The Great Darkness1936-1939 & 1944-1959
Quebec was seen as growing backwards with regards to education in the postwar years. Duplessis favoured rural areas and died in office, he was both hated and loved. -
Creation of the Union Nationale Party
Duplessis was the leader of the Union often accused liberals and the rest of Canada for betraying the rest of Quebec, and had a nationalist slant saying that it should be separate from the rest of Canada -
World War Two Conscription Crisis
Prime Minister King promised there would be be no conscritption for WW2 but after japan entered the war, he asked Canadisans to vote ont he issue. The yes side, however, Quebeckers voted against it leading to conlifct -
1960s Separatist Movement
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• Quiet Revolution Begins 1960
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1962 Maitre Chez Nous (Jean Lesage, Liberal Party Campaign slogan)
It was the start of the quiet revolution in Quebec, its goal was to strengthen teh economy of Quebec and they nationalized hydro-quebec -
Front de liberation du Quebec FLQ party is formed
The FLQ is a radical groupf people who seek the separation and freedom of Quebec. -
Bi& Bi Commission (Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism) investigation by Lester B. Pearson
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Canada’s New Flag 1965
Consists of a right field with a white square and a red maple leaf. The French were angry because it was not a fleur de lys -
1967 Canada’s Immigration Policy becomes “Colour Blind”
The Points System had been created following contentious debates surrounding the Liberal Government's 1966 White Paper on Immigration. That paper had proposed the linking of labour needs in the Canadian economy with a "skills over nationality" direction in immigration planning. -
Trudeau Becomes Prime Minister
Trudeau's first major legislative push was implementing the majority of recommendations of Pearson's Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism via the Official Languages Act, which made French and English the co-equal official languages of the Federal government. -
Official Languages Act passed, 1969
The Official Languages Act (1969) is the federal statute that made English and French the official languages of Canada. It requires all federal institutions to provide services in English or French on request -
The War Measures Act 1970
The only use of the War Measures Act in a domestic crisis occurred in October and November 1970, when a state of "apprehended insurrection" was declared to exist in Quebec. Emergency regulations were proclaimed in response to two kidnappings by the terrorist group, Front de Liberation du Quebec. -
FLQ Crisis (Oct 5, 1970) aka October Crisis,
he October Crisis began 5 October 1970 with the kidnapping of James CROSS, the British trade commissioner in Montréal, by members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ). It rapidly devolved into the most serious terrorist act carried out on Canadian soil after another official, Minister of Immigration and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte, was kidnapped and killed. -
Policy of Multiculturalism 1971
The federal government, under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, declared in 1971 that Canada would adopt multicultural policy. Canada would recognize and respect its society included diversity in languages, customs, religions, and so on. -
1974 Bill 22 introduced by Robert Bourassa
Bill 22, Loi sur la langue officielle, sponsored by the Québec Liberal government of Robert Bourassa and passed by the legislature July 1974. It made French the language of civic administration and services, and of the workplace. -
1976 Bill 101 introduced by Parti Quebecois, Rene Levesque
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. -
1976 Parti Quebecois wins provincial election on Quebec
In 1976, the PQ finally emerged victorious, trouncing the Liberals while capturing 41.4 per cent of the vote and 71 seats. The PQ victory was attributable largely to an electoral strategy nimbly executed by Claude Morin, in which the party promised to hold a referendum on sovereignty-association during its first term in office. -
1976 Immigration policy moves to ‘sponsorship program’
The Immigration Act, the cornerstone of present–day immigration policy, was enacted in 1976 and came into force in 1978. It broke new ground by spelling out the fundamental principles and objectives of Canadian immigration policy -
1977 Bill 101 passed
The Bill fomr the previous event was passed -
1980 Referendum on Sovereignty Association (include the results of the referendum)
A Québec referendum, called by the PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS (PQ) government, was held on 20 May 1980 to ask the people of Québec for a mandate to negotiate, on an equal footing, a new agreement with the rest of Canada, thus honouring the promise it had made in 1976 to hold a REFERENDUM before taking steps toward a sovereign Québec. -
1982 Constitution Act
n 1982 Canada patriated its Constitution, transferring the country's highest law, the British North America Act, from the authority of the British Parliament a connection from the colonial past to Canada's federal and provincial legislatures. -
Brian Mulroney becomes Prime Minister
Martin Brian Mulroney, PC, CC, GOQ, lawyer, businessman, politician, prime minister of Canada 1984 to 1993 (born 20 March 1939 in Baie-Comeau, QC). -
Meech Lake Accord 1987
Québec's legislative assembly was the first to pass the required resolution of approval on June 23,1987. The Accord had to receive unanimous provincial ratification on or before June 23,1990. -
1987 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. -
1988 Department of Multiculturalism formed
The Canadian Multiculturalism Act is a law, passed in 1988, that aims to preserve and enhance multiculturalism in Canada. -
1990 Meech Lake Accord
In 1987 the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attempted to win Québec's consent to the revised Canadian Constitution — following the Québec government's rejection of it in 1981. -
1992 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. -
1994 Parti Quebecois returned to power
In 1994 the P.Q. returned to power under the leadershipe of Jacques Parizeau. -
30 Oct 1995 2nd Referendum on Sovereignty Association
The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim national sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada. -
1998 Clarity Bill and the Supreme Court decision
The content of the Clarity Act was based on the 1998 secession reference to the Supreme Court of Canada made by the federal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Previously in 1996, a private member's bill, the Quebec Contingency Act (Bill C-341) was introduced to establish the conditions which would apply to a referendum regarding the separation of Quebec from Canada, but it did not proceed further than the First Reading.
