Q. The separatist movement in Quebec is still powerful and remains a threat to Canadian unity. The separatist movement in Quebec is still strong but with time, circumstances have changed. It is not the same Quebec we saw 50 years ago. We do see instances when Stephen Harper is shouted at during his speeches in Quebec City and couple of mini demonstrations for separating Quebec here and there but there needs to be a lot more resentment within the French Canadian community to go to polls once again and ask for their “sovernigty.”

To talk about the present we need to start with the past when the separatist movement was strong, violence followed by referendums taking place. The actual time of crisis.
The Quiet Revolution had started in Quebec in the 1960`s which showed agitation amongst the people of Quebec feeling that the Anglos were taking advantage of the Francophones and that the French Canadians were the downtrodden, marginalized and kept away from the opportunities that Canada could have provided for them. We saw instances such as when the President of the Canadian National Railways in the 1960`s said that there were not enough French-Canadians qualified to be employed in the senior management of the organization (BEHIELS). This enraged the Francophones in Quebec. They felt that the anglos were on purpose marginalizing them. By the mid-1960s a wide variety of proposals for restructuring, renewing and even dismantling the Canadian federal system were forthcoming (BEHIELS).
There were series of violence, bomb blasts, processions and demonstrations against the government during that time. It seemed to be a very serious situation at that time and as the time passed events such as the visit of Charles de Galle to Quebec didn’t help either.
By the mid-1960s, the neo-nationalists encountered opposition from all national parties and a number of prominent