Jean Lesage was a skilled and quick witted lawyer that was first elected to the Canadian parliament in 1945 for over 13 years.
Later he was elected in Québec in 1960 as leader of the Liberal Party.
His 6 years as Premier ministre du Québec is called "the Quiet Revolution" and is one of the most important developments in Québec history.
This documentary let us to relive the challenge of the men behind the 1967 Universal Exposition in Montréal, Canada. By searching trough 80,000 archival documents at the national Archives, they managed to bring light on one of the biggest logistical and political challenges that were faced by organizers during the "Révolution Tranquille" in the Québec sixties. Includes the accounts of the Chief of Advertising Yves Jasmin, and businessman Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien.
A documentary which revisits the Quebec referendum of May 20, 1980, looking at both the Non/No and Oui/Yes sides.