Francis Chartrand for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

There is a simplistic mythology of Quebec history: Before it was bad and sad, and now it's finally happy. All statistics on the increase in suicides among youth, unemployment, a slow decline (and the requirement to have two earners in a family), the largest use of drugs, the ever-important d ' abortions, the increasing number of broken families will not change anything.

It is an article of faith and we must propagate the myth (fabula is propaganda).

We had already seen the treatment that was a caricature book LIDEC (with legal errors, and papal history in some cases).

Editions of La Pensée (made famous by a radio host for their bias in favor of Ms. Françoise David) is needed to contribute to the spread of the simplistic myth.

The booklet manual 1st RCT secondary looks so on the societal changes that followed the advent of the Quiet Revolution.

In the left column of scenes of life of 50 years, in the right column of the corresponding scenes of the 2000s.

What is happening now there immediately?

The family portrait is monochrome (yes, of course the pictures were often, but life was it?), everyone is serious in 1950. Today, everything is color and smiles.

In the schoolyard, the nun who oversees sports a grin authoritarian. The children have been experiencing a shortage of cultural topics and a Franco-French cultural somewhat open to the world, while today the prevailing cultural wealth that finally opens in a globalized world (and not standardization and Americanization of course).

Finally, the class of the 50s Unisex (how horrible!) is dominated by a nun who seems to mumble a strong voice lesson while students are passive on their bench. Nothing to do with classes today where young chemists (down with classic culture!) work and discover their own small groups and experience modern science under the approving eyes of a charming host of class smiling and benevolent. A malevolent spirit will notice that in the modern classroom are valued roles held by women: the moderator, the two girls who handle tube.

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On the myth of the Great Darkness, read

The example of Quebec's past to the twenty-first century;
The myth of the Great Darkness and Quebec underdeveloped;
The classical colleges;
Statism and the decline of Quebec;
The Quiet Revolution: break or turning point?

Excerpts:

On the eve of the Quiet Revolution, Quebec is not an underdeveloped society. Half of Francophones are employed ... in the service sector? In 1931, the census shows that few people still lived on agriculture and that 2 / 3 of the workforce employed in the secondary sector (manufacturing) or tertiary (services). The manufacturing industry had always grown here at the same pace as in Ontario, and has been since Confederation. Throughout the twentieth century, the proportion of Quebec workers working in the industrial sector is comparable to the proportions observed in the United States and several European countries.

There does not further delay of urbanization in the province. Migration to cities is steadily since the late nineteenth century. Quebec has an even higher rate than urban Ontario from 1900 until the 2nd World War and would remain above the Canadian average thereafter (for a threshold of urbanization of 10 000 inhabitants ).

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This suggests that Quebec francophones have never had the mentality of "born to a roll, and for good reason. In 1953, Quebec had the second per capita income highest in the world after the United States (excluding the rest of Canada). Did we really need the Quiet Revolution and state intervention to lift Quebecers that alleged "Great Darkness"? Absolutely not! Quebecers were developed and upgraded by themselves, and long, without state support.

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Jean-Luc Migué Statism and decline in Quebec: Review of the Quiet Revolution overturns the conventional view and argues that the Quiet Revolution, far from the boom period that has allowed Quebec to have access to modernity and to catch up its delay, has instead resulted in degeneration economic, political and social response to dramatic growth of the state. It is from this moment that the gap between the standard of living of Quebecers and Ontarians began to increase, the decline of Montreal has accelerated for the benefit of Toronto, that linguistic conflict and political worse, that sectors such as health and education have suffered the onslaught of ever more intrusive bureaucracy. Quebec is of course a dynamic company with an enviable standard of living, but our integration into the capitalist economy in North America that brings these benefits. All sectors controlled by the state are themselves perpetually in crisis.

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