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.
Cast
Robert Bourassa
Self
Pierre Bourgault
Self
Félix Leclerc
Narrator
Rodrigue Biron
Self
Pierre Falardeau
Self
Raymond Garneau
Self
Marc Lalonde
Self
Jacques Lanctôt
Self
Gerard D. Levesque
Self
Louise Beaudoin
Self
René Lévesque
Self
Marcel Masse
Self
Claude Morin
Self
Jacques Parizeau
Self
Jean-Luc Pepin
Self
John Robarts
Self
Claude Ryan
Self
Camil Samson
Self
Jeanne Sauve
Self
Raymond Barre
self (Premier ministre de la France)