User talk:Smartpeter14

During 1907’s French/English relationship -French Canadians - largely working class (poor) - but their children were going to university and becoming educated - their children had a growing sense of Quebec Nationalism through their education - growing cultural identity- in music, books, artists - Quiet Revolution led to artistic representations of Quebec cultures’ nationalism - tied in with the American Civil Rights Movement (African Americans women) - new political heroes like Rene Levesque

English Quebeckers - Made up most of the cultural elites’ business owners - most French Canadians worked for English bosses - the older elite (50s-70s) was very much against change - they were the minority population but had considerable political and economic influence - English Canadians had dominated business in Quebec for the past 200 years

Events (1960) - Jean Lesage elected Premier of Quebec (Liberal) - began policies to reform and modernize Quebec - “Quiet Revolution” - made French the official language of business - took over education from the Catholic Church and increased spending on science and math

(1963) - committed over 200 violent crimes - Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) began a bombing campaign against English businesses

(1968) - Pierre Trudeau elected Prime Minister - Believed strongly in Federalism and a united Canada - Rene Levesque quit Bourassa’s Liberal government in Quebec and formed the PARTI QUEBECOIS (a separatist party)

(1968) - FLQ BOMBED THE Montreal Stock exchange injuring 27 pepl.

FLQ’s goal - to achieve Quebec independence through violent means - copied terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland and Spain

-FLQ robbed banks to get money and raided military sites to get weapons -Threatened more bombings, kidnappings and murders