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Francophone Minority Communities in the Era of Constitutional Negotiations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For many, the election of the provincial Liberals led by Jean Lesage in June 1960 marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. The arrival of l\u2019\u00e9quipe du tonnerre<\/em> (the Thunder Team) injected a new dynamic into constitutional issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 1961, federal Minister of Justice Davie Fulton made public a proposal to \u201cpatriate\u201d the Canadian Constitution, which was still an Act of the British Parliament. Fulton proposed not only bringing the Constitution home, but also the addition of an amending formula. The latter would protect the sections of the Constitution by requiring a prescribed degree of consensus in order to amend them.

The French-speaking institutional network was outraged by this proposal. Led by the Ordre de Jacques Cartier<\/em>, the Association canadienne-fran\u00e7aise d\u2019\u00e9ducation de l\u2019Ontario<\/em> (ACFEO), the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l\u2019Ontario<\/em>, and the Ligue d\u2019Action nationale<\/em> all denounced the lack of recognition of Canada\u2019s duality, the omission of French-language minority rights in education, and the limited increase in French-language services in the public sector. All felt that substantial changes had to be made to guarantee certain gains for French-speaking minority communities. Morever, they believed that a revision of the distribution of powers between the federal government and the provinces was necessary.

In June 1963, the ACFEO issued a declaration that essentially echoed these ideas. However, it was released in a particular political context. Although the institutional network seemed unanimous, internal dissension erupted in the spring of 1963. The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> and the Ligue d\u2019Action nationale<\/em> were in favour of strengthening the Quebec provincial state, while organizations outside Quebec, such as ACFEO, wanted to promote the traditional constitutional demands of French Canada.

The document bears witness to the mobilization of the institutional network at a time when constitutional issues were becoming central to the political landscape. On the eve of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, it also attested to the tensions running through the French-Canadian institutional network. The latter was increasingly divided between two conceptions of French Canada: one cultural and non-territorial; the other defined around Quebec. These tensions came to the fore during the Estates General of French Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title of the document : <\/strong>Texte d’une d\u00e9claration approuv\u00e9e par le Conseil g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019Association d\u2019\u00c9ducation, 1 p.

Date : <\/strong>June 14, 1963

Reference : <\/strong>University of Ottawa, Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes (CRCCF), Fonds Association canadienne-fran\u00e7aise de l\u2019Ontario (ACFO), C2\/332\/2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab Accord de principe sur une proc\u00e9dure d\u2019amendement \u00e0 la Constitution \u00bb, 14 octobre 1964, Bilan Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Printed sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angers, Fran\u00e7ois-Albert. \u00ab\u2009Rapatriement ou d\u00e9paysement\u2009?\u2009\u00bb, L\u2019Action nationale<\/em>, vol. 51, no<\/sup> 6 (f\u00e9vrier 1962), p. 463.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bock, Michel, et Yves Frenette, (dir). R\u00e9sistances, mobilisations et contestations : L\u2019Association canadienne-fran\u00e7aise de l\u2019Ontario (1910-2006)<\/em>, Ottawa, Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gagnon, Alain-G. \u00ab Le dossier constitutionnel Qu\u00e9bec-Canada \u00bb, <\/em>dans Alain-G. Gagnon  (dir.), Qu\u00e9bec : \u00c9tat et soci\u00e9t\u00e9, <\/em>tome II, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec\/Am\u00e9rique, 2003, p. 151-174.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gagnon, Marc-Andr\u00e9. \u00ab \u00c0 mon drapeau : je jure d\u2019\u00eatre fid\u00e8le \u00bb : le mouvement des Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 1947-1984<\/em>, th\u00e8se de Ph. D. (histoire), University of Guelph, 2017.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u2009La SSJB de Montr\u00e9al s\u2019oppose au projet Fulton\u2009\u00bb, La Libert\u00e9 et le patriote<\/em>, 9 f\u00e9vrier 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martel, Marcel. French Canada: An Account of Its Creation and Breakup, 1850-1967<\/em> (Ottawa: \tCanadian Historical Association, 1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St-Pierre, St\u00e9phanie. \u00ab M\u00e9moires de l\u2019Acadie et du Canada fran\u00e7ais hors Qu\u00e9bec : les minorit\u00e9s de langue fran\u00e7aise et la commission Laurendeau-Dunton \u00bb, Mens<\/em>, vol. 14-15, no<\/sup> 2-1 (printemps-automne 2014), p. 203-249.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Les francophonies minoritaires \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re des n\u00e9gociations constitutionnelles Nombreux sont ceux pour qui l\u2019\u00e9lection des lib\u00e9raux provinciaux de Jean Lesage, en juin 1960, repr\u00e9sente le d\u00e9but de la R\u00e9volution tranquille au Qu\u00e9bec. La prise de pouvoir de \u00ab\u2009l\u2019\u00e9quipe du tonnerre\u2009\u00bb insuffle une nouvelle dynamique aux questions constitutionnelles. En d\u00e9cembre 1961, le ministre f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60472210,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-440","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pfdu74-76","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60472210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}