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Quebec's Quiet revolution: What is it? How has it changed
Quebec's society? How has it affected Confederation? The
English-French relations have not always been easy. Each is
always arguing and accusing the other of wrong doings. All
this hatred and differences started in the past, and this Quiet
revolution, right after a new Liberal government led by Jean
Lesage came in 1960. Thus was the beginning of the Quiet
Revolution. Lesage had an excellent team of cabinet
ministers which included Rene Levesque. The Liberals
promised to do two things during the Quiet Revolution; one
was to improve economic and social standards for the
people of Quebec, and the other was to win greater respect
and recognition for all the French people of Canada. The
Liberals started a program to take control of hydro-electric
power companies. French-Canadian engineers from all over
Canada returned to Quebec to work on the project. Slogans
during these times were "we can do it" and "masters in......

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