HIST 1126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Maurice Duplessis, Asbestos Strike, French Mandate For Syria And The Lebanon
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The "pepsi" province called this as a joke. French speaking quebec citizens called du pepsi due to commercial based preferences very fashionable, trendy province. Modernization despite the jokes, quebec was undergoing modernizing however, it was controlled by duplessis who kept it traditional. Duplessis embraced rural french canadian as ideal french canadian, an urban french. 1949 asbestos strike started in asbestos industry a number of abestos working collectives went on strike to challenge the poor working conditions and low wages in the industry this strike influences lots of sympathy. Duplessis sees this as a communist regime, claims its led by communists. Archbishop charbonneau, however, comes out and supports the workers the church was one of duplessis" most prominent allies, and the archbishop is coming out saying the government is being too heavy-handed in their response to these strikes. Ideological transformation young ppl come out to challenge duplessis. Anti-clerical the church should not have so much power over canada.
