Demographics + Territory
This period was marked by a large increase in birth rate.
What is the baby boom?
Married women gain these rights in 1964.
What are legal rights?
This was also nicknamed the "project of the century" and was the most important project of its kind in Quebec history.
What is the Baie-James hydroelectric project?
The Immigration Act of 1976 promoted the arrival of these people who were often fleeing from a dangerous environment in their home countries.
Who are refugees?
This was the main goal of René Lévesque's Parti Québécois?
What is Quebec's sovereignty?
What is a falling birth rate?
This is legalized in 1969, granting women more bodily autonomy.
What is abortion?
He was the Premier of Quebec who initiated the Baie-James hydroelectric project. (full name)
Who is Robert Bourassa?
The Immigration Act of 1976 promoted the arrival of immigrants who received this support from family members already in Canada.
What is financial support?
Lévesque's law, Act Respecting Labour Standards, responded to demands made by these two separate groups.
Who are unions and feminists?
This problem developed as a direct consequence of the increasing population in suburbs.
What is an increase in traffic?
This Canadian Prime Minister proposed adopting a controversial document in 1969 that would change the Indian Act. (full name)
Who is Pierre Elliott Trudeau?
This dam became the largest energy production site in North America.
What is the Robert-Bourassa (or Grande-2) dam?
In 1971, the federal government adopted its first policy to promote this thing.
What is multiculturalism?
This social reform of Lévesque's gave compensation of victims of road accidents.
What is the Automobile Insurance Act? (or Automobile insurance)
This, along with women in the job market and changing attitudes, led to a fall in the birth rate.
What is access and use of contraceptive pill?
The document to change the Indian Act, "Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy - 1969", went by this other name.
What is a white paper?
These two Indigenous groups were the most affected by the Baie-James hydroelectric project.
Who are the Cree and Inuit?
Due to an agreement signed between Quebec and Ottawa in 1978, Quebec could now select the immigrants it will receive, preferring these types of individuals.
Who are Francophones?
This explained why Lévesque sought to adopt reforms before asking the population about Quebec's sovereignty.
What is "he wanted to demonstrate that his party could run a country"?
These new areas are formed due to the large number of Quebecers deciding to leave the cities and move into suburbs.
What are urban agglomerations?
Due to this view on the white paper, Native Americans fiercely opposed it and it was never adopted.
What is an attempt to assimilate Native Americans?
This document was signed between the Inuit, Cree and Quebec government, granting rights to the Inuit and Cree and resuming the hydroelectric construction.
What is the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement?
The implementation of this program allowed for the arrival of over 8000 Vietnamese in the 1980's.
What is a sponsorship program?
This law divided Quebec into zones with the goal of protecting fertile agricultural land.
What is the protection of agricultural land?