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Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again. The rapid and dramatic development of government institutions and the vastly increased role of the state in the province's economic, social and cultural life unleashed forces that would have major consequences. The government introduced new legislation on education and established the Commission of Inquiry on Education , which was chaired by M gr Alphonse-Marie Parent.
The resulting Parent Report, tackled the entire system. In recommending the creation of a department of education, it questioned the role of the Catholic Church, which controlled the public school system. The church resisted recommended changes, but without success.
The Parent Report contributed significantly to creating a unified, democratic and modern school system accessible to the entire population. The desire to modernize was also evident in the social sphere. Upon taking power, the government decided to participate in the federal-provincial hospital insurance program. In , it introduced three major pieces of legislation: an extensive revision of the labour code; Bill 16, which abolished a married woman's judicial restrictions by which her legal status was that of a minor; and a pension plan.
The government decided to go to the electorate on this issue. On 14 November , the Liberals won on a platform for the nationalization of power with In all private hydroelectric companies were nationalized. Unlike in previous years, francophones were able to work entirely in French and to develop their technical, scientific, and managerial skills. Such francization also occurred in the fields of education, social welfare, and health services, as well as in all levels and departments of government bureaucracy.
The Lesage government demanded a review of federal policy and won a major victory following a stormy First Ministers' conference in It was perhaps to calm the anxieties of English Canada and to show his good will that in Lesage agreed to a proposal for patriating and amending the Canadian constitution by a method known as the Fulton-Favreau formula.
This would have allowed the Parliament of Canada to repeal or amend any provision of the Constitution, subject to a veto by any given province on certain major issues, but to a two-thirds majority on others. However, because of the extreme reactions of various nationalist groups within the province, Lesage withdrew his support and dissociated from the other 10 governments that had accepted the formula. In , for instance, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism noted that "Canada, without being fully conscious of the fact, is passing through the greatest crisis in its history.
The source of the crisis lies in the Province of Quebec. At the same time, other francophones were concerned by such growing nationalism.
The party still had a solid base in the rural areas that were left largely untouched by the Quiet Revolution. On 5 June, the Union Nationale won 56 seats against the Liberals' In the fields of education and health, the Church slowly abandoned its prerogatives to an increasingly interventionist and reformist state. Education and healthcare quickly became available to a greater number of people.
From an economic standpoint, Quebec clamoured loud and high that it wanted to be master in its own home and acquired the tools needed to accomplish this.
Nationalism, or what Marcel Rioux referred to as the ideology of conservation based exclusively on the survival of the French people, Catholic faith and their language was a thing of the past. The new nationalism was expressed through new references and was more affirmative and demanding.
Even the vocabulary changed. The language bias masks a transformation of realities. Quebec will no longer be a province, but a country [
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