Word: quebecoise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The real reasons behind separatist feeling in Quebec are more complicated than that. The rapid industrialization of the province has brought unprecedented mobility to Quebecois?and with it, uncertainty about whether their unique way of life can possibly last. The Quebecois birth rate, once the highest in Canada, has become...
Many Quebeckers fear the compelling force of North America's predominant language and culture. When French-speaking sons and daughters of the province learn English?as they frequently must to gain jobs or advance in them ?they begin to be weaned from their native language. Outside Quebec, Canada's...
This is the grim climate in which Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque are now circling each other like wary knife fighters, probing before attack. Quebecois call the longstanding separatism debate one between head and heart, between reason and sentiment. Surely no two opponents better fit their respective roles.
Despite their differences, the careers of the two Quebecois are curiously intertwined, and reflect both the unity and conflict within Quebec's tightly knit society. Said Claude Ryan, until recently editor of Montreal's intellectual daily Le Devoir: "Destiny has for a long time prepared Messieurs Lévesque and Trudeau...
In 1960, Lévesque was elected a member of the Quebec Liberal government headed by Premier Jean Lesage, and thus was in on the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. As Minister of Natural Resources, Lévesque soon established himself as a radical force within the Cabinet, and in 1963 pushed...