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Les champions : la façade du pouvoir

1978 55 min
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René Lévesque et Pierre Elliott Trudeau, deux des politiciens les plus marquants de l'histoire du Canada, sont au cœur de cette série de trois documentaires. Les champions : la façade du pouvoir s'attache aux années 1967 à 1977, une décennie marquée par trois victoires électorales de Trudeau, la crise d'Octobre et l'ascension au pouvoir du Parti québécois.

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René Lévesque et Pierre Elliott Trudeau, deux des politiciens les plus marquants de l'histoire du Canada, sont au cœur de cette série de trois documentaires.


Les champions : la façade du pouvoir s'attache aux années 1967 à 1977, une décennie marquée par trois victoires électorales de Trudeau, la crise d'Octobre et l'ascension au pouvoir du Parti québécois.

Politics and Government - Canada History - Canada - 1946-Present All subjects
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  • director
    Donald Brittain
  • producer
    Donald Brittain
    Janet Leissner
  • text
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Katadotis
    Paul Wright
  • photography
    Andreas Poulsson
  • sound
    Claude Hazanavicius
  • editing
    Steven Kellar
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
    Abbey Jack Neidik
  • music
    Art Phillips

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Education

Ages 14 to 17
School subjects
History - Canada 1946-1991 History and Citizenship Education - Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980) Social Studies - Canadian Politics and Government Social Studies - Quebec/Federal Relations
Discuss the October Crisis of 1970 and the invocation of The War Measures Act by Prime Minister Trudeau. Comment on the primary contents of Bill 22 and Bill 101. Research the following politicians as influences on the careers of Trudeau and Lévesque during this period: Lester "Mike" Pearson, Paul Martin, Marc Lalonde, Robert Bourrassa, Jean Marchand, and Paul Hellyer.

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