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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (11070)	11/28/2006 1:25:13 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 38149

Edit maybe too much information :o) but something Canadains should know also... Naw... the real problem is that the cat has not been out of the bag long enough.. the Francophone Quebecers were also held back by the Church.. Here is where the cat escaped... or the course of hundreds of years of Quebec history shifted dramatically... He died in office in Schefferville, Quebec, on September 7, 1959. Afterwards, Quebec society was caught in a very swift socio-cultural change away from his conservative, Church-oriented policies toward a highly secular, socially liberal welfare state. This was called the Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) and also went by simultaneously with the radical church reforms during and after the liberalizing Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), which highly influenced the previously very Catholic region of Quebec. The Quebec born newspaper baron Conrad Black wrote a biography, Duplessis (ISBN 0-7710-1530-5), now out of print. The period of Duplessis's reign is often referred to in Quebec as "The Great Darkness"(La Grande Noirceur) due to his very conservative, rural and Church-oriented policies. Major changes occurred when the Liberals regained power in 1960 under Jean Lesage. Call that the Blowoff top of the old Quebec... Rome was not built in a day... This has all occurred in my lifetime (I am 50)... mix that with all else that has transpired since the 60s and there is a lot to digest..