The Globe and Mail - Quiet lessons for Canada

(Op-ed by Antonia Maioni, director of McGill’s Institute for the Study of Canada, and organizer of Wednesday’s half-day Montreal conference “Voices from the Quiet Revolution):

"This fall is a season of many anniversaries in Quebec: 15 years since the 1995 referendum, 40 years since the October crisis. But this year also is the anniversary of another event that had an even deeper and enduring impact on the province’s politics and society: the Quiet Revolution.

Indeed, Nov. 10 marks the 50th anniversary of the first throne speech presented by the “Équipe du tonnerre” – the Liberal government of premier Jean Lesage that wrested power from the conservative Union Nationale – which would transform both state and society in Québec…"