Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, grey Quebec villages, political meetings have a clannish, almost family atmosphere. Réal Caouette, 45, strides down the center aisle, chatting, shaking hands. A small, bespectacled man, he speaks rapidly in French Canadian patois, his jokes homey and telling. At meeting's end, as party workers pass cardboard ice cream containers for campaign contributions, he says to his audience of stubble-chinned farmers and somber-faced workmen: "Give if you can, but don't be shy if you can't. And if you really need some money, take...
...Social Credit's oddball economics but Caouette's French Canadianness that is his true strength. He makes skilled demagogic use of Quebec's nagging dissatisfaction with its role in Canadian life. French Canadians make up nearly 30% of the country's population, and most of them feel like second-class citizens. They complain that they hold only 10% of the jobs in the federal civil service, usually at lower levels, that bilingualism, though given lip service in the federal capital at Ottawa, is ignored throughout the rest of the nation; that even their own province...
Like thousands of other French Canadians, he ignored the notifications that he had been drafted to fight in World War II-"that English war." "Why should you fight for the right to starve and die in your own country?" asked Caouette. He made his first political speech in 1941, and never forgot the cheers. Three years later, he ran as a Social Credit candidate in a provincial election, got licked, lost again in 1945 when he ran for the federal Parliament. In 1946, when his opponent died, he won the by-election to replace him, but lost again...
Blind Alleys. Always the rebel, Cuevas rather grandly refuses to associate himself with any group, even the interioristas. But his mark and leadership are there nonetheless. "Mexican art was at a dead end. Now we are free," he said, and the other interioristas enthusiastically agree. Canadian-born Arnold Belkin. 32, one of the co-authors of the manifesto, says that Rivera, chiefly significant as a social-protest painter, had the byproduct effect of leading Mexican art "up a blind alley -two generations of picturesque Indians making tortillas or setting out candles for the Night of the Dead." When abstraction invaded...
...Conservative Party, which formerly based its appeal on close ties with the British Commonwealth and a high protective tariff against the United States, must now redefine its position, according to Conway. So too the Liberal Party, which prided itself on its "understanding of the Canadian role in North America...