Government Adélard Godbout (2)

The mandate of the government of Adélard Godbout , become Prime Minister for Quebec following his victory with the general elections of October 25th, 1939, extended from the November 8th 1939 with the August 30th 1944. It had before obtained a first mandate, from June to August 1936.

Composition in 1939

  • Adélard Godbout: Prime Minister, Minister for Agriculture and Colonization.

  • Henri Groulx: provincial secretary, Minister for Hygiene.

  • Wilfrid Girouard: public prosecutor.

  • Pierre-Emile Side: Minister for Hunting and the Fisheries, Minister for the Grounds and Forests.

  • Edgar Rochette: Minister for Labor, Minister for the Mines and the maritime Fisheries.

  • Oscar Drouin: Minister for the municipal Businesses, Trade and Minister of Industry.

Rehandling in 1940:

  • Hector Perrier: provincial secretary.

  • Henri Groulx: Minister for Health.

Composition in 1942

  • Adélard Godbout: Prime Minister, Minister for Agriculture.

  • Arthur Mathewson: provincial treasurer.

  • Hector Perrier: provincial secretary, public prosecutor.

  • Cléophas Bastien: Minister for Colonization.

  • Edgar Rochette: Minister for the Mines and the maritime Fisheries, Minister for Labor.

  • Valmore Welcome: Minister for Hunting and the Fisheries.

  • Georges Dansereau: public Minister for Labor.

  • Télesphore-Damien Bouchard: Minister for Voierie.

  • Drouin Oscar: Minister for the municipal Businesses, Trade and Minister of Industry.

  • Henri Groulx: Minister for Health.

Rehandling in 1944:

  • Henri Renault: Minister for the municipal Businesses, Trade and Minister of Industry.

Chronology

  • February 20th 1940: the speech from the throne announces that a law will be adopted, granting the right to vote with the women.

  • April 11th 1940: in spite of the opposition of the Québécois clergy, the law on the female vote is adopted by 67 votes against 9.

  • May 16th 1940: the report/ratio of the Commission Rowell-Sirois on the federal-provincial relations is made public. Ottawa must entirely assume the responsibility for the helps to unemployment; the provinces must give up the taxation of the incomes, the successions and the corporations; Ottawa has jurisdiction on the unemployment insurance.

  • January 1941: federal-provincial conference on the Rowell-Sirois report/ratio. There is only Mitchell Hepburn Ontario to be opposed so that it is ratified.

  • February 24th 1942: the Speech from the throne of the third session of the 21st Legislature announces the transfer to federal perception of the income tax and the taxation of the corporations.

  • April 27th 1942: side-Canadian votes by plebiscite on the conscription. With the " question; do you Agree to release the Government of any obligation resulting from former engagements restricting the methods of mobilization for the military service? , Canada votes Oui with 64% but Quebec votes Non with 72%.

  • February 23rd 1943; beginning of the fourth session of the 21st Legislature. One announces obligatory education there for the children from 6 to 14 years and the nationalization of electricity in the area of Outaouais.

  • March 19th 1943: a motion presented by Rene Chaloult and adopted unanimously decides against the introduction of a conscription overseas.

  • October 8th 1943: Adélard Godbout announces the next nationalization of the Montreal Light Heat and Power .

  • January 18th 1944: inauguraton of the fifth session of the 21st Legislature. Announced independent measurement is the créarion of a Hydro-Quebec.

  • February 3rd 1944: André Laurendeau becomes the chief of the popular Bloc in Quebec. This party, which introduces candidates as well to federal as with the provincial one, recommends the neutrality of Canada when its interests are not directly concerned.

  • April 4th 1944: T.D. Bouchard becomes the first president of Hydro-Quebec.

  • April 14th 1944: critical Philippe Hamel the refunding made with the Montreal Light heat and Power . According to him, the nationalization of electricity should not be limited to the area of Montreal but extend to all Quebec.

  • May 17th 1944: deposition of a first law on the child welfare.

  • August 8th 1944: the Liberal party of Adélard Godbout east demolishes with the general elections with 37 candidates of elected officials against 48 unionistic, 4 bloquists and 2 ndépendants. It obtained votes however more than the National union (39.5% against 35.8%).

Characteristics

The Godbout government precedes with many regards the Quiet revolution of the years 1960 and slices with the preceding governments by its deep reforms. Since 1940, it makes adopt a law giving the right to vote with the women and this, in spite of the opposition of the clergy. In 1942, it makes obligatory education for the young people from 6 to 14 years. In 1944, it nationalizes the Montreal Light Heat and Power and founds Hydro-Quebec. It also makes adopt a labor regulation recognizing the trade unions and creates the economic Council of guideline and the Council of studies on insurance-health.

However its attitude is disappointing for many French-speaking people in the defense of the interests of Quebec vis-a-vis the federal interferences. Thus, it makes transfer to Ottawa without protesting the perception of the provincial tax and the tax on the corporations. Its " mollesse " in front of the crisis of the conscription with back a good part of the nationalists puts to him who transfer their votes towards the National union or the popular Block to the elections from 1944.

Sources

  • Jacques Lacoursière. popular History of Quebec , volume IV. North.

  • Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Drocher, Jean-Claude Robert and François Ricard. History of contemporary Quebec , volume II. Boreal Express train. 1986.

  • Conrad Black. Duplessis , volume I. Editions of the Man. 1977.

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