Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winn Lutc Oftel Jan Taftt the world Are we going How Quebec can join in Canada of tomorrow Claude Cash Ong that Jasto Nonty min ister of social affairs in one vec until is resignation in 1973 until last was the one acc representative on the Federal anti inf Lattof in the Spring of 1974 i was invited As part of the Massey College lecture to give an essay on social Progress in the society of to a difficult but stimulating and i accepted my theme led me to insist on the necessity for a fundamental revision it of Canadian constitutional and political Struc t even asserted that any real social Progress required precondition adjust ments that took into account the reality of the invitation extended to me recently by the Globe and mail to Deal essentially with the same subject made m e suddenly realize How great is the distance that we have come Over the past two As a it seems to me if not at the present time to discuss social Progress or Justice in the Canada of for i would have to know what Canada we Are talking what the status and role of Quebec will be in that in other i realize More clearly today than in 1974 that the status of a Cit and the status of the collectivity with which he Basi Cally identifies himself Are both More fundamental than his special to this More primary a solution must be found this question of the status of Quebec and of its citizens within the Canada of Tomor Row before discussion can be resumed on social Progress in Tomo rips per among the various interpretations of the 15 one stands out in it is Clear that this election is an integral part of a process of it confirms that the changes begun in the late Nineteen fifties Are not Only not but that they go and will ineluctably so it is Normal that there is concern and that this con Cern should spread beyond the business circles of Toron to and Montreal to touch canadians even in Quebec a great number of people Are concerned about what the future holds for them because they see the thrust for change is in Evita the question that comes to mind in such a climate is whether this concern is Well and whether there Are not other attitudes to be it is often said that the past is guarantor of the fun in answering the question it is instructive to Analyse the profound significance of change in que Bec Over the past 15 years and to find its profound Quebe cers understood the importance of education and they resolved at great Cost to reach the educational Levels found in North they realized that their Reli Gion was All too much a mat Ter of habit setting aside external they engaged in a search for deeper they be came aware that theirs was a society turned in in taking Little part in the great International and they resolved to look out wards and communicate with the these were so rapid and deep that Progress was far from even or Quebe cers became aware that their share of modern economic life was largely limited to supplying docile and vat eur poorly paid Man at first they believed that their situation could improve rapidly if the Quebec government adopted an eco nomic policy and undertook projects that could change Quebec Industrial so we set about elaborating a plan modelled on we nationalized the hydroelectric we set up a impressive que Bec Deposit and investment we created the Gener Al investment which was intended to resolutely establish us in the manufacturing we dreamed of a great steel works later limiting ourselves to the More modest Sidbeck we launched the development of the hydroelectric potential of James Bay we despite toe opposition of a great number into the adventure of the olympic some lessons were but we did we Nave Learned to that there is no Sim ple for while Skaj ppm the deficiencies of Learned that those who control toe Means of manufacturing and control the markets will not for any consideration surrender part of we Learned painfully that excessively Large under takings can bring As Many problems As i we have Learned in lie last we had to rely above All on our Perse Verance and the sustained development of our natural advantages and in reaction to the fears provoked b y demographic the invasion of modern Media of communication and the require ments of the North american labor we have Felt the need to protect our Lan our efforts to this while intended to be respectful of provoked Sharp reactions even caused deep divisions within our own Simuta our cultural and artistic life experienced a spectacular reawakening and now proves remarkably the dramatic fall of 1970 convinced the agitators in our midst that Quebe cers reject violence altogether As a Means of achieving their legitimate the will to respect individual rights and the rights of minorities has never been so alive As in the changes that we have known in Quebec were intended to free us from our state of isolation and and to set us on a course of Progress and developmental All in a we wanted fully to meet our response and even if change was not without its no irreparable or harm was the history of the past few years justifies i in suggesting to those who Are worried by the situation created by the election of the parti quebecois that they should try to understand the events unfolding in Quebec and to undertake the search for real of past and future changes also tend toward emancipation and the Pursuit o f greater How could it be otherwise since the last world the Earth has witnessed a Gener Al movement of emancipation of what must be understood is that there is in Quebec a quite specific collectivity with an identity of its its own culture and its inst to which belong five million French speaking i this by its its numbers and its state of All the attributes of a distinct Quebe cers want this society to remain dynamic and they want it to Claude Castonguay that is not a new reality Durham recognized it in 1838 and the Union of upper and lower Canada was its poli tical in on the eve of a confederation which no longer to All in tents and this Rea the members of the Royal commission on bilingualism and recalled in their preliminary the exis tence of two societies in can Ada and insisted on the urgency of recognizing this reality once and for Here is How the commissioners concluded their first report More than most other Canada is a creation of human it has been called a geographical an the United a mile main Street with Many Bare nevertheless this country has existed for a Long because its people have never stopped willing that there be a each age is fascinated by the difficulties it must face hence most generations go through periods of present Day Canada is no sex but is it More difficult to maintain the entity of Canada to make necessary than it was to create it yesterday Canada will continue to will grow and will surmount the present if canadians have the will a will like that of the men who built the the present crisis is reminiscent of the situation de scribed 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