The Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences , otherwise known as the Massey Commission , chaired by Vincent Massey , was founded in 1949. The Massey Commission examined Canada's cultural needs. Massey had long believed that Canadians' rich cultural history was deeply embedded in European culture but was too little known to the world. An avid art collector himself, he sponsored exhibits in Europe and saw the need for a national commitment to promoting the arts.
14-494: Other than Massey, the commissioners included social scientist Georges-Henri Lévesque , historian Hilda Neatby , university president Norman MacKenzie , and engineer Arthur Surveyor , co-founder of SNC-Lavalin . They held public hearings across Canada. The final report appeared in June 1951. It advised that Canada's international identity needed building up, and must be based on more than political and economic factors. It argued that
28-521: A generation of union organizers. His liberal and social democratic ideas and work brought him into constant conflict with the government of Premier Maurice Duplessis and he is seen as one of the fathers of the Quiet Revolution that transformed Quebec society after Duplessis's death. In 1955, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent approached Lévesque about naming him to the Senate of Canada as
42-535: A non-partisan appointee. Lévesque agreed and the Dominican Order gave its permission but the appointment was vetoed by Archbishop Maurice Roy due to concerns that allowing a priest to accept a political appointment could potentially embarrass the Church. Premier of Quebec The premier of Quebec ( French : premier ministre du Québec (masculine) or première ministre du Québec (feminine))
56-535: Is most usually the head of the party winning the most seats in the National Assembly of Quebec and is normally a sitting member of the National Assembly. An exception to this rule occurs when the winning party's leader fails to win a riding. In that case, the premier would have to attain a seat by winning a by-election. This has happened, for example, to Robert Bourassa in 1985. The role of
70-710: Is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec . The current premier of Quebec is François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Québec , sworn in on October 18, 2018, following that year's election . The premier of Quebec is appointed as president of the Executive Council by the lieutenant governor of Quebec , the viceregal representative of the King in Right of Quebec . The premier
84-594: The National University of Rwanda and he was its first president, from 1963 until 1971. Lévesque supported the co-operative movement and, through his faculty, helped create new social welfare bodies such as the Conseil supérieur de la coopération and the Société d'éducation des adultes , and to modernize Québec's church-controlled social welfare organizations. As well, his Faculty of Social Science trained
98-710: The Encouragement of the Arts, Letters, Humanities, and Social Sciences in 1957. Contrary to the recommendation not to support a private film industry, in 1967 the government created the Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC) to subsidize films, that could reach the American mass-market. Francophone critics accused the report of privileging elite, Anglophone conservative culture at the expense of Quebec's historic cultural. ...
112-704: The Quebec Superior Council of Cooperation and was its first president, from 1939 until 1944. He founded the periodical Ensemble! and was its director, from 1939 until 1944. He was a member of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences in Canada (1949–1951). He was vice-president of the Canada Council for the Arts (1957–1962). He represented Canada at several international events. In 1963, he founded
126-465: The arts provide a strong sense of national community, and that the government should establish a national board to administer public funds intended to encourage work in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It especially wanted funding for nonprofit agencies, rather than for-profit corporations. It called for more money for universities and strengthening existing public radio system, and its expansion into television. Without aggressive federal funding,
140-461: The literature of the United States , which in the last thirty years has acquired an increasing international reputation, exercises an impact which is beneficial in many respects no doubt, but which, at the same time, may be almost overpowering. (Report, chapter 15) Georges-Henri L%C3%A9vesque Georges-Henri Lévesque CC OQ (February 16, 1903 – January 15, 2000)
154-486: The premier of Quebec is to set the legislative priorities on the opening speech of the National Assembly. The premier represents the leading party and must have the confidence of the assembly, as expressed by votes on budgets and other matters considered as confidence votes. The term "premier" is used in English, while French employs "premier ministre", which translates directly to "prime minister". In at least one instance,
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#1732772407687168-576: The report suggested, there was a risk of that authentic Canadian culture would be crowded out of its own nation by Cheaper American popular culture. The government accepted the recommendations on university funding and strengthening the CBC; otherwise it largely ignored the report. However, the Report did lead to the establishment of the National Library of Canada in 1953 and the Canada Council for
182-788: Was a Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist and a liberal figure during the conservative Duplessis era in Quebec. Born in Roberval, Quebec , the son of Georges Lévesque and Laura Richard, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1928. He studied philosophy and theology at the Dominican College in Ottawa and social sciences at the School of Social Sciences of the Université Catholique de Lille (France). Lévesque
196-513: Was a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Université de Montréal from 1935 until 1938 and a professor of social philosophy at Laval University from 1936 until 1962. In 1938, Lévesque founded the School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences of Laval University and was its first director from 1938 until 1943. The school became the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1943, and he was its first dean, from 1943 until 1955. Lévesque founded
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