Hello, I’m Ahmed and I'm Muhammad and we are the 2 brown boys. In today's show we will be covering Politics, Rights, Immigration, Peacekeeping, Quebec in Canada and Cold War, but let's start off with some entertaining music, Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mehndi.
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Ahh, that was some good music, now on a much more serious note, politics have been an issue throughout the years in Canada. Before 1970, woman had a tough time due to the male dominant workforce. Women were largely underrepresented in politics, only 67 women were elected to the house of commons compared to 6778 men. In 1970s women began to take their place on the political stage. In 1972 the election of Jeanne Sauve to the house of commons marked the beginning of her distinguished …show more content…
Now we transfer off towards the cold war. The cold war was started rooted in the collapse of the American-British-Soviet alliance that had defeated Germany. The deeply suspicious of the other sides world plans, American and British diplomatic relation had stopped with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. Now we introduce our guest Henry, a cold war veteran. I remember it was 1947-1953 and it was the coldest time, the weather got worse and worse. Diplomatic discussions erupted as Stalin died in 1953. The Canadian NATO commitment included an army brigade and an air force with fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Throughout the years, we Canadians were about a nuclear war erupting between the states and the Soviet Union. Thank You for the informative discussion towards the Cold war and now let's move to …show more content…
There was a lot of disturbance in Quebec and how they wanted to separate. And today we have a Quebec historian with us to tell you the viewers all about it.
That's correct, in 1982 Canada’s new constitution was adopted but was criticized by many Quebec nationalists regardless of political connections. The failure of the referendum as well as difficult economic and social conditions within Quebec weakened the government's position and create a dramatic disturbance within the Parti Quebecois. The Part Quebecois was defeated by the liberals December 1985, accompanies in an era in which Quebec nationalists seek to redefine their goals. French-speaking minorities outside Quebec continued their struggle for recognition for linguistic rights. The failure of the Meech Lake Accord stimulated a vigorous renaissance of French Canadian nationalism as many Quebecers concluded that it was impossible. One result was the elections of in 1993 where more than 50 MPs belonging to the Bloc Quebecois, separatist party. While the Parti Quebecois then began talking of a third referendum. During the 1980s and 1990s, French-speaking minorities outside Quebec, their ranks depleted by increasing assimilation which continued their struggle for recognition of linguistic