مجلة العلوم القانونية و السياسية
Volume 16, Numéro 2, Pages 12-25
2025-09-28
The Struggle Against Corruption At The Time Of Quebec's Quiet Revolution
Authors : Perreault Normand .
Abstract
This paper will examine a critical moment in the development of political corruption in Quebec, when the liberal government of Jean Lesage made it a priority to tackle the issue and to ‘clean-up’ Quebec’s corrupt political practices. The paper demonstrates that, while addressing a number of corrupt practices common in Quebec politics in the decades prior to 1960, the Lesage government turned a blind eye to a number of practices that have been the subject of the recent Charbonneau Commission and that continue to form the core of an elaborate system of political collusion in Quebec politics. The politics of the Quiet Revolution have already been the object of many inquiries that have produced a wealth of useful data and information. Resting on this well-documented evidence, this paper will propose a new explanation of current issues related to political corruption in Quebec that is rooted in the electoral politics of the period surrounding the Quiet Revolution. While the Quiet Revolution has often been examined as a historical turning point from the angles of constitutional politics, nationalism or the emergence of the modern Quebec state, it has not been extensively re-visited from the angle of political corruption. Finally, the study of the fight against political corruption during the Quiet Revolution also allows us to present a new, more complex and more relevant operationalization of the basic concept of political corruption.
Keywords
corruption ; government ; Québec ; politics ; elections
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