Overview

This film covers the transitional political period between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the Canadian federal election that brought Joe Clark to power. Featuring some of our most colourful politicians, historians, journalists, artists and citizens, this film highlights in parallel the convictions of each on the national political question, on the eve of the first Quebec referendum. Montage of newsreels shot between the election of the Parti Québécois on November 15, 1976, and the federal election of 1979.

Genres

Cast

Robert Bourassa

Self

Pierre Bourgault

Self

Félix Leclerc

Narrator

Pierre Falardeau

Self

Marc Lalonde

Self

Louise Beaudoin

Self

René Lévesque

Self

Claude Morin

Self

Jacques Parizeau

Self

Claude Ryan

Self

Camil Samson

Self

Raymond Barre

self (Premier ministre de la France)