REVIEW OF TERMS

TERMS

 Demography: population
 Continuity : things that stay the same after a striking event
 Change: must talk about what happened after a striking event
 Cause: answer must be before the event in question
 Effect: answer must be after the event in question
 Characteristics: aspects that are not shared with other events or compared
idea
TERMS
 State intervention: when the government gets involved
 Similarities: find what they agree upon or share
 Exploitation: using resources
 Subsidies: Government Payments
 Economy: based on exploitation, buying and selling resources
 Power: people who can control others
 Countervailing Power: those who challenge or compete with those who
have power
TERMS
 Consequence: result of an action (good and Bad not just bad) answer has to come
after the event
 Prosperity: growing in wealth (getting richer)
 Current of thought: ideas that exist in a society in a certain time period
 Provincial Autonomy: Rejection of federal interference in Provincial matters
 Immigration: moving in
 Emigration : moving out
 Concession: a contract given to an individual or company to exploit a resource in a
territory(land given to censitaires can be called a concession)
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE ECONOMY 1944-1990’S
 1944-1959 Duplessis believed in little intervention of the state, saw state in a
supportive role

 1960-1980: Starting in the Lesage government till the 80’s interventionism ruled the
government. We see many expenditures on social programs and the creation of crown
corporations

 1980’s and 1990’s; Neo-liberalism holds sway over the government: due to recessions
over oil prices: so they focus on debt reduction and privatization of Crown
corporations. Budget cuts in many social programs including education and
hospitals. Unions lose power
WAVES OF IMMIGRATION

 1608-1760 French Settlers to New France: Main groups: Fille du Roi, Soldiers,
Engages
 1760-1774 English Merchants: only 1 percent of Quebec population
 1774-early 1800’s Loyalists: change culture, introduced townships and led to
Constitutional act 1791
 1870’s -1950’s Eastern Europeans / Jewish immigrants leads to multiculturalism in
Montreal
 1980’s to Present Asians and Africans continuing trend to multiculturalism
ISM

 Modernism: a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with

modern ideas, especially in the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries
 Neo-Liberalism: New liberalism which questions state interventionism and advocates
a laissez faire approach to the economy
 Environmentalism: belief in protecting nature and the environment
RISE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE STATE: FIGHTING FOR THE
POOR

 Interest groups which emerged during quiet revolution

 Championed social housing, fought poverty and exclusion, metal health

and racial discrimination

 Strong presence in 80’s and 90’s

ENVIRONMENTALIST GROUPS
 These interest groups fought for the preservation of nature and the environment

 They fight pollution and waste in society

 1972 created the Environment quality act

 1980’s they fought against acid rain

 1990’s fighting global warming with the Kyoto Protocol(treaty to reduced green
house gas emissions) enters into force in 2004