POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Great Power, Patriation, Middle Power
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Lecture is short today because there was a quiz. In july 24 1967 there was an incident french president visited canada and went to montreal. He stood on the montreal city hall and said long live independent quebec and this was a huge deal because you don"t go to another country and encourage movement. He showed his view that quebec should be independent. This was publicly inflamed by a big political figure. Different responses about this: paul martin sr. mild response that canada should not really express the objection to this. Not make it bigger deal than what it is: trudeau - this was an upfront canadian sovereignty and we needed an apology from him for this. This little episode is used to mark the transition of federal liberal politician to political arrival of trudeau. This is how he won colleagues in cabinet. When he became prime minister he did not follow middle power footsteps of.
