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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 our......

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