The idea of a “founding race” has been a root of many issues between “english” Canada and Quebec. In some aspect it stems from the idea that one half of the founding race contains the location and overall control of the central government, and the other half, Quebec, is a province. Although as a province Quebec still has significant control over its lands, it is still identified within the state of Canada, and must follow regulations and bills created by the central government. The idea of the two separate “founding races” of Canada is a key reason that Quebec has such a slow evolution of intercultural-ism (2). Interculturalism may be considered a way of assimilating their culture. Quebec citizens with more traditional views may see the influence…show more content… The unrest within Quebec manifested itself to its peak strength within the early 1960’s as Quebecois Nationalism took the reigns of Quebec's political agenda.
Perhaps the most impactful political movement since Canada's beginning was Quebecois nationalism. “Canadian federalism features provincial governments with substantial autonomy as well as distinct and well-regarded political classes” so as the originally defensive French-Canadian nationalism transitioned into Quebecois Nationalism in the 1960’s, they garnered a great following to protect Quebec’s “policy autonomy” (16). The most impactful effect that Quebecois nationalism had on Canadian politics was an asymmetry within social policy, in which the pressure exerted by the Quebecois caused a variation to occur from the central government policies (17). A key example would be the decentralization of pension programmes. The other provinces would still be under the Canadian Pension Plan or…show more content… As there has not been anymore attempts to modify the constitution act in favour of Quebec in present days, it seems as the Canadian government has learned to accept that there will always be a nationalistic tendency within Quebec. It is not that Quebec had made no gains to become a distinct society, as it did cause an asymmetry in social policies, Quebec has the exception of having more sovereignty than other provinces. The aforementioned fact may not be satisfy the idea of a bi-national Canada, but as a province containing a substantial amount of the majority of population it should be a satisfactory
