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The motion.--"That this House is of opinion that the province of Quebec would be disposed to accept the breaking of the Confederation pact of 1867 if, in the other provinces, it is belived that she is an obstacle to the union, progress and development of Canada ; Mode of access: Internet.

AbstractThe polls of the 2018 Quebec election forecast a close race between the two leading parties. The result, a clear victory of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) over the Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), was clearly at odds with the polls. We argue that when the polls get it wrong, it is important to determine whether there was apolling miss, in which the discrepancy is due to changing voter behaviour, or apoll failure, in which the problem stems from polling methodology. Our post-election poll shows that changing voter behaviour—last-minute shifts and the vote of non-disclosers—explains most of the discrepancy. These movements varied by region. We conclude that the Quebec 2018 election was among the worst polling misses in history but not necessarily a major poll failure.

In sharp contrast to the musings of a senior student, the mandatory history texts follow a narrow provincial orientation. The recently introduced Quebec high school history program offers adolescents a slanted narrative devoid of larger interconnected contexts as hailed; for example, by Oakeshott (2004), MacMillan (2009), and/or Canadine (2013). In our view, secondary students are forced to travel a historical journey that deals with Canadian and Quebec events through a "unique" Quebec lens (Woods, 2014). The widely engrained twenty-first century concept of global interconnectedness, first articulated on a wide scale over a hundred years ago (Wells, 1920), has been replaced by one anchored in a retro-nineteenth-century construct viewing only carefully selected unconnected historical snippets devoid of a contextualized narrative. Anchored in a narrow political perspective, this secondary course of study forces adolescents into a stilted and fragmented "patch-work" historical landscape. This journey silences many voices, brushes others from the chronicle, and twists recognized historiography to fit a specific contemporary self-determined internalized orientation. We review the official course of study to unpack several major world themes demonstrating this constrained point-of-view via a close investigation of one of the approved English language student texts. Further, we illustrate how the deliberate manipulation of historical stories, as well as "alternate facts," leads adolescents into a realm deprived of meaningful connections.

Date from text. ; "These views and the text are published with the object of illustrating the construction and superstructure of the Quebec Bridge . This work has been unavoidably delayed and in the meantime publications have appeared which in large measure take from the St. Lawrence Bridge Company the credit to which it is entitled for the design and the construction of the bridge."--Foreward. ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44

An attempt to study the processes of growth & institutionalization of formal organizations through the examination of a particular case. It was found that a newly-created organization-Radio-Quebec-evolved to a considerable extent in terms of its needs to secure support & legitimacy from its working environment. Changes in formal objectives & priorities reflected the evolution of opportunities & development of tactics for maximizing support & minimizing opposition. The results tend to confirm models of institutional growth set forward by M. Esman, A. L. Stinchcombe, S. Levine & P. E. White, & others. The particular advantages & disadvantages of new organizations are illustrated: to a greater extent than in old organizations, resources which might otherwise be available for the performance of organizational tasks must be diverted to the satisfaction of specifically institutional needs. 1 Figure. AA.

AbstractFollowing public debates on the topic of trust in Quebec, this article examines the alleged social capital differential between Quebec and the rest of Canada. The literature has found lower levels of generalized trust in Quebec, but explanations offered are diverse and conjectural, with historical, sociological and political factors all in contention. We test contextual and compositional influences, including cohort differences, language and linguistic ability, religion, ethnicity, and neighbourhood-level measures of diversity, using pooled cross-sectional data from the Canadian General Social Survey (2003, 2008 and 2013) linked with precise measures of neighbourhood-level ethnic and linguistic diversity drawn from the Canadian census. We identify those Quebecers who have low levels of trust and those who more closely resemble their counterparts in the rest of Canada. We find that individual linguistic ability and linguistic heterogeneity of the neighbourhood are important correlates of trust and that among francophone populations, social distrust is found most in unilingual homogenous communities.

Quebec in its modern period evolved into a secular society with a nationalist political, social, and educational agenda. Education was considered as an important instrument in the redistribution of social and economic reward in the society. The Quebec government introduced the policy of intercultural education with the goal of integrating minorities into francophone culture. In educational policies, stress was increasingly laid on the linguistic and cultural assimilation ofminorities. By law, minorities were directed to French-only schools. The assimilationist interpretation of intercultural education has created racial antagonism in schools and minority students feel their rights have been endangered. The paper discusses educational policies and their impact on minorities. RÉSUMÉ Le Québec moderne est devenu une société séculière dotée d'un programme politique, social et éducatif d'obédience nationaliste. L'éducation est perçue comme un instrument important de la redistribution des richesses socio-économiques au sein de la société. Le gouvernement du Québec a adopté une politique d'éducation interculturelle en vue d'intégrer les minorités dans la culture francophone. Dans les politiques scolaires, on attache beaucoup d'imponance à l'assimilation linguistique et culturelle des minorités. Les enfants des minorités sont obligés de s'inscrire à l'école francophone. Le côté assimilateur de l'éducation interculturelle a abouti à un antagonisme racial dans les écoles et les étudiants des minorités estiment que leurs droits ont été bafoués. L'auteur de cet article analyse les politiques éducatives et leur impact sur les minorités.

In this paper we discuss the potential for future electricity market restructuring in Quebec. In particular, we consider the political economy of the abolishment of the Heritage Pool requirement, which caps wholesale prices. Its elimination is challenging since it would result in higher retail prices. However, if the extra revenue that would be earned from selling at the market price is properly redistributed, a majority of voters could benefit. We also examine the possibility of establishing a competitive wholesale market. The usual model of forced divestiture may not lead to a competitive outcome since most of Quebec's electricity is produced at large hydroelectric complexes cascaded on a few individual river systems. Consequently, Quebec might consider adopting the approach taken by Norway and join an expanded production pool.

Tables. ; Signed and dated: Quebec Building Society, December, 1849. ; Cover title. ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44

In Canada and throughout the Western world, the 1960s was a tumultuous decade of student unrest and social/political upheaval. For Quebec, the 1960s was also the decade of la Revolution tranquille/Quiet Revolution, when francophone society's self-definition underwent fundamental change. For McGill University, the decade's changing environment required enormous adaptation: maintaining and extending academic programs and standards, restructuring governance and administration, expanding the physical plant, accommodating growing enrolment, seeking adequate funding, and adjusting to Quebec's changing reality. A wide range of primary and secondary sources is available in recounting the story of McGill's role in Quebec during the 1960s.ResuméAu Canada ainsi que partout ailleurs dans le monde occidental, les années 1960 furent une décénnie d'agitation étudiante et de perturbations sociales et politiques. Au Québec, les années 1960 furent aussi la décénnie de la Révolution tranquille, durant laquelle la manière dont la société francophone se définissait elle-même a subi un changement fondamental. Dans le cas de l'Université McGill, les transformations de l'environnement durant cette période ont nécessité énormément d'adaptation: le maintien et l'expansion des programmes et des normes académiques, la restructuration de la gouvernance et de l'administration, l'agrandissement des installations, l'accomodation du nombre croissant d'inscriptions, les efforts déployés pour assurer un financement adéquat, et l'ajustement de l'Université aux changements vécus par le Québec. Un large éventail de documentation primaire et secondaire est disponible pour relater l'histoire du rôle de McGill au Québec durant les années 1960.