Podcast appearances and mentions of jean louis roux

Lise Thibault becomes Quebec’s first woman lieutenant governor, and first ever in a wheelchair. In 1996, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was faced with a dilemma when his recently appointed Quebec lieutenant governor, Jean-Louis Roux, resigned amidst protest over the fact he’d worn a swastika during a student protest at the age of 19. Roux had been a strong federalist, and the prime minister was looking for a problem-free appointment. On December 12, 1996, Chretien announced the appointment of Lise Thibault as the first woman lieutenant governor for the province of Quebec. Thibault was also the first person to take the post while in a wheelchair. A toboggan accident at the age of 13 had left her with pain and mobility problems that had led to paralysis from the waist down following the birth of her second child (against doctors’ advice) in 1964. Although Thibault had been a former Liberal campaigner, her work as an advocate for the rights of the disabled influenced Chrétien to consider her a good fit. Her appointment generated no significant opposition, as she pledged to keep away from partisan politics. However, a week after Thibault retired as lieutenant governor in June, 2007, she was met with banner headlines due to an audit of her finances which suggested she had mis-spent almost $700,000. She suggested that some of that money was used to show that persons with a disability could ski and golf. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Quebec’s new lieutenant governor resigns for wearing swastika during student protest. On September 12, 1996, Prime Minister Jean Chretien appointed Jean-Louis Roux as lieutenant governor for Quebec. A strong federalist who had campaigned vigorously against separation during the 1995 referendum, Roux had a long and prominent career as a stage and television actor in the province. However, in an interview with L’Actualité magazine, Roux admitted that in 1942, when he was 19 years old, he’d worn a swastika during a student protest against conscription. This prompted numerous requests for his resignation from many fronts, including the Jewish community. Roux argued that his actions had been a lark and in no way related to the anti-Semitism common at that time. But when the media revealed that Jewish shops had been vandalized in the heat of that protest, pressure mounted against Roux. He finally resigned as Quebec’s vice-regal on November 5, 1996. Two months later, the prime minister appointed Lise Thibault to the post. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The immediate occasion for this series was the CBC's 50th anniversary in 1986. Public broadcasting in Canada had actually begun four years before the date we were celebrating, with the creation of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) by the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett in 1932. But this first attempt was criticized by the the Liberal opposition — for political bias— and by the Radio League, the popular organization that had lobbied for its creation — for poor programming. When Mackenzie King's Liberals replaced the Conservatives in 1936, they reorganized the public broadcaster as a crown corporation with a supposedly "arms length" relationship to the government of the day. They called their new creation the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation — the "corpse," as it was sometimes later jokingly known — and it made its first broadcast, from a transmitter in Watrous, Saskatchewan, on Nov. 2, 1936. The 50th anniversary gave me a welcome chance to review some of its history and to interview many of the pioneers who had built, first, the radio service, and then, after 1952, the country's first television network. The series began with an exploration of the origins of public broadcasting in Canada. Luckily, while living in Ottawa in 1978, I had recorded an interview with Graham Spry, one of the leaders of the campaign to establish a public broadcaster in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Graham died in 1983, and, having this interview was invaluable to me in constructing this first episode. The second show dealt with the so-called golden age of radio, when the CBC became Canada's first truly national cultural institution. The third was about the beginnings of television , the epochal Radio Canada strike of 1959, and the battle over Preview Commentary, a radio commentary which was cancelled, in 1959, as a result of political pressure from by the Diefenbaker government, and then reinstated under strong counter-pressure from its producers and the public. The fourth was entirely devoted to the story of This Hour Has Seven Days, the wildly popular current affairs programme that the CBC cancelled in 1966. The final episode concerned the regulation of public broadcasting in Canada, initially the task of the CBC itself, but, after the Conservative government of John Diefenbaker reformed the CBC and allowed private television broadcasting in 1958, the job of the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG), and then, from 1968 to the present, Canadian Television and Radio Commission (CRTC). This last programme was twice partially reconstructed to create a more up-to-day conclusion when the series was re-broadcast in 1996, for the 60th anniversary, and again in 2006, for the 70th, but here I have included the original 1986 ending.Some of the material was drawn from the archives, where Ken Puley, as always, was an invaluable help, but happily, in 1986, a lot of the people who built the CBC were still alive and willing to reminisce with me. Here is a list of those I was able to interview:#1 - Harry Boyle, Graham Spry, Frank Peers, Michael Nolan, Orville Shugg, and James Finlay#2 - Neil Morrison, Lister Sinclair, Harry Boyle, Davidson Dunton, Orville Shugg, Marjorie McEnaney, Helen Carscallen, Alan Thomas, Frank Peers, Bernard Trotter, and Robert Fulford#3 - Fernand Quirion, Jean Louis Roux, Alphonse Ouimet, Robert Fulford, Lister Sinclair, Barbara Fairbairn, Frank Peers, and Gordon Cullingham#4 - Hugh Gauntlett, Patrick Watson, Alphonse Ouimet, Laurier Lapierre, Douglas Leiterman, Reeves Haggan, Warner Troyer, Helen Carscallen, Eric Koch, Roy Faibish, and Peter Campbell#5 Harry Boyle, Graham Spry, Frank Peers, Davidson Dunton, Alphonse Ouimet, Robert Fulford, Eugene Forsey, Herschel Hardin, Laurent Picard, Hugh Gauntlett, and Al Johnson 

première heure: 30 ans après la marche des beurs, ces jeunes français issus de l'immigration maghrébine qui parcourent la France, de Lyon à Paris: qu'en est-il du racisme en France? Un reportage de Michel Labrecque et une entrevue de Michel Désautels avec le sociologue Éric Fassin; entrevue avec le réalisateur du documentaire web interactif Fort McMoney, David Dufresne; situation pré-génocidaire ou, pour le moins, extrêmement préoccupante en République centrafricaine? Chronique de Léo Kalinda. Deuxième heure: les Roms à Montréal vivent entre l'espoir et la crainte, un reportage de Danny Braun; entrevue avec l'homme de théâtre Jean-Claude Germain qui se rappelle Jean-Louis Roux, décédé cette semaine; qui était Hélène Pedneault? une courte vignette à l'occasion de la parution d'un ouvrage collectif qui lui est consacré; et grande entrevue de Michel Désautels avec celui qui a été le premier ministre de l'Éducation du Québec, Paul Gérin-Lajoie, qui s'est vu accordé un des Prix du Québec.