Quiet Revolution & Patriation...

There are many good link on this website: "Canada: A Country by Consent." 

Some of you are still concerned about the Quiet Revolution. Read this short page OR watch the three-minute video at the bottom, which might further help in your comprehension.

Here's a summary that also might help:

The Quiet revolution was a period of intense social change, of modernisation of Quebec and of a profound redefinition of the role of Quebec and French Canadians within Confederation. The background to the Quiet Revolution years was the Duplessis regime which had been characterised by isolation, social conservatism and generally negative autonomist stands. The energies and hopes unleashed during the Quiet Revolution years shook the very foundations of Canada and are still being felt today. The slogan which best represents the Lesage years was "Maîtres chez nous" [Masters in our own house]. The underlying belief in Quebec, during this period, was that French Canadians should not be content to play a second class role in socio-politico-economic matters and that the key to a full, ‘normal’ development of the community rested in the utilisation of the only tool which collectively French Canadians controlled: the state of Quebec, and thus in the rejection of the anti-statism of the past. So, the government of Jean Lesage became the symbol and the tool of a whole people on the road to self-assertion.

The government embarked on a series of reforms that altered substantially conditions in Quebec: creation of a provincial hospitalisation scheme (1961), creation of departments of Cultural Affairs and of Federal-provincial relations (both firsts in Canada ), nationalisation of all private hydro electric facilities in Quebec (1963) and their incorporation into the existing network of Hydro-Quebec, wholesale reforms in the field of education (the Parent Report and Bill 60) and creation of a Department of education (1964), creation of the Société Générale de Financement- SGF (1962), creation of the Quebec Pension Plan (1965), and of the Caisse de Dépot et de Placement (1965), creation of the Société Québécoise d'Exploration Minière- SOQUEM, electoral and social reforms, in particular by the introduction of a provincial family allowance scheme (though only implemented in 1967), etc.. For a while, there seemed no limits to the reforms that the government would bring about.

http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/readings/lesage.htm

Patriation of the B.N.A. Act in 1982...