HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Raymond Villeneuve, Libration, Official Language
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Key points: tremblay commission, ren l vesque, parti quebecois, ma tres chez nous, front de lib ration du qu bec (flq, bill 101, sovereignty-association referendum, 1980, notwithstanding clause. Women life expectancy went from 63% to 79: decline of traditional family structure. Common law as opposed to formal marriage ceremonies. More migrants from middle east etc: 1963 nationalization of hydro, maitres chez nous. Sovereignty-association: 1976: pq forms government, 1963-69: royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism. View of canadian government said that bilingualism and biculturalism should allow quebecers to live in any part of the country but this was not the case, french canada was (cid:498)stuck(cid:499) in one place: 1969: official languages act. Adopting english and french as official language in canada to give opportunities to work and live outside of quebec. Depending if you were bilingual, union-lingual you earned different amount: 1977: charter of the french language (bill 101, 1980 sovereignty-association referendum.