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Jul 12, 2018 · Yet nationalism is most associated with the province’s sovereignty movement and the Parti Québécois, the party created in 1968 to make Quebec an independent country. First elected in 1976, the ...
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- The Nationalist League
- The Community of Blood Relationship
- Political Emancipation
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- Failure of Federalist Reforms
- Interculturalism
Safeguarding collective French identity dominated political thought and influenced successive political arrangements in New France, which became a British colony in 1763 (see Treaty of Paris). Resistance to British rule culminated in the Patriotes’ 1837 rebellion. Drawing inspiration from the American example, as well as from French republicanism, ...
Even though the political ideals of nation and liberty formulated by the Patriotes continued to find expression in the activities and publications of the Institut canadien (1844‒1869), their liberal, democratic and secular ideas could not survive the doctrinal clash that pitted them against the Catholic clergy. Through its ultramontane preaching (s...
With the aim of opposing Canada’s participation in the British Empire’s wars at the beginning of the 20th century and running counter to Tardivel’s ideas, French-Canadian intellectuals were the first to come to the defence of Canada as a sovereign nation. In 1903, they founded the Nationalist League (Olivar Asselin, Omer Héroux, Armand Lavergne, an...
Not only conscription but also the failure to win the right to establish French-language schools outside Québec by the issue of Ontario’s Regulation 17 (see Ontario Schools Question) confirmed for the followers of Lionel Groulx, working under the banner of a Montréal magazine called L’Action française(1917–1928), that only French Canadians formed a...
The traditionalist nationalism identified with the views of Lionel Groulx and associated with the political regime of Maurice Duplessis was the target of the founders (including Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Gérard Pelletier) of the magazine Cité libre (1950‒1966). They argued in favour of democratizing political institutions and modernizing the state...
From the events of October 1970 (see October Crisis) through the election of the Parti Québécois in 1976 to the Québec Referendum (1980), intellectuals chose many different ways to claim that they believed in both marxism and separatist nationalism. The Québec question was set in a context of class struggles and alliances and was understood as a ph...
The repeated failure of efforts to reform Canadian federalism, the purpose of which was to bring about Quebec’s formal acceptance of the 1982 Constitution (seePatriation of the Constitution;Meech Lake Accord; Charlottetown Accord), revived the sovereignty movement. This was evidenced by the election of separatists from the Bloc Québécois(BQ) as mem...
Proponents of a sovereign Québec call for a modern, secular, pluralist society open to the world — what some would call a “civic” or “territorial” nationalism offered to all citizens whatever their ethnic background. The new nationalism would no longer be based on identity or common ancestry associated with real or perceived xenophobic tendencies. ...
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Jun 30, 2022 · 5. Essayist Mathieu Bock-Côté is perhaps the most prominent among these intellectuals. A prolific blog writer for Quebecor, Quebec’s leading mainstream francophone media concern, a regular public affairs analyst on electronic media in both Quebec and France, he burst onto Quebec’s political and intellectual scenes a dozen years ago with hard-hitting, polemical essays and public ...
Quebec nationalism. Celebration of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day on June 24 at Parc Maisonneuve in Montréal. Quebec nationalism or Québécois nationalism is a feeling and a political doctrine that prioritizes cultural belonging to, the defence of the interests of, and the recognition of the political legitimacy of the Québécois nation.
Oct 24, 2017 · Sovereignty at an Impasse: The Highs and Lows of Quebec Nationalism. Jean-Herman Guay October 24, 2017. Observers of the Quebec political scene tend often attribute the decline of the sovereigntist movement in recent years to issues about party leadership or tactical errors. However, this article shows there are deeper reasons for the drop in ...
Sep 14, 2019 · Social Sharing. The opening days of the 2019 election campaign have been marked, above all, by the attempts of federal leaders to navigate the new Quebec nationalism and its most potent expression ...
with rising Indigenous nationalism during this period, and how the Quebecois attitude towards Indigenous nationalism has shifted due to these conflicts. I will argue that Quebecois nationalists saw Indigenous nationalists' “three-nation” conceptualization of Canada as a threat to their own political claims, which
