This was a significant step because by the late s, the government had become the province's biggest employer. The general economic prosperity of the s and early s also put the government in a position where it could accede to a number of union demands. These social and economic advances gave rise to a new French-speaking middle class that could now aspire to hold the highest positions in society.
The end of the Duplessis era prompted a questioning of the traditional values that had up to that point defined the role of religion, the family and women. The State's new-found importance in the lives of French Canadians led them to identify increasingly as Quebeckers.
The new nationalism found its inspiration in the reform ideas that constituted the pillars of the Quiet Revolution, rather than in the Roman Catholic religion that had hitherto provided the foundation for French-Canadian identity.
Baby boomers, born between and in the economic prosperity that followed the Second World War, represented a substantial part of the population in the s. Baby boomers and cultural figures became significant social players at the time of the Quiet Revolution. As broadcasting was an area of federal responsibility, program content could not be controlled by Duplessis and was a source of new ideas for many Quebeckers.
During the summer of , Montreal hosted the world's fair. The more difficult economic conditions of the s and the recession of the s brought the period to a close. Since that time, the foundations of the Quiet Revolution have frequently been challenged, and there seems to be a certain bitterness about the legacy left by earlier generations and the economic debt burden that has been allowed to build up over more than 40 years of the welfare state.
Couturier, Jacques Paul, et al. Dickinson, John A. Lesages most radical reform, however, was in education. Archbishop Maurice Roy, the primate of the Canadian Catholic Church, defended the church's historic hold on education.
But the government refused to back down. By , the province had an education ministry which was highly government controlled. Within a few years, Quebec created secondary schools and a network of junior colleges. I was coming from a school of students to one where there were almost 2, of them.
What a difference! But not everyone seemed prepared for the huge changes that Lesage had unleashed. The education reforms had upset a way of life that was centuries old.
The Quebec quiet revolution: a noisy evolution. Authors: Donald Cuccioletta and Martin Lubin. Date: Fall-Winter From: Quebec Studies Vol.
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