The Village Resists
March 19, 2009
Documentary film screening: “THE VILLAGE RESISTS: The Forced Municipal Mergers of Quebec”
“THE VILLAGE RESISTS: The Forced Municipal Mergers of Quebec” directed by Ryan Young
In English, 115 mins., Canada, 2008
Date: Thursday, March 19th, 7:30pm
Address: CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre, 5170, Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., corner Westbury. 2 blocks west of metro Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Tickets: $8 general / $6 students/seniors (65+). Seating is limited. For tickets please call the Box Office 514-739-7944. Tickets also available at Admission.com
THE VILLAGE RESISTS: The Forced Municipal Mergers of Quebec, a new feature-length documentary by Ryan Young, is the only film that has been made about one of the most significant political issues in recent Quebec history that many would argue has produced the current Quebec political landscape. The Liberals won the election of 2003 based on their promise to create a mechanism for municipalities to demerge, and then many would say were punished in the 2007 election for not respecting their promises fully on the demerger file and subsequently ended up with a minority government.
THE VILLAGE RESISTS examines a significant period in Quebec’s history when the Parti Québécois government imposed municipal mergers across the province despite a massive and organized grassroots resistance from the population. The documentary traces these developments and their impacts on a small quirky bilingual town on the western tip of the island of Montreal named Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue that is proud of its 300-year old history and its system of local government.
Led by their colourful and charismatic mayor Bill Tierney, residents are given a second chance to get their municipality back again when the Jean Charest Liberals win the provincial election of 2003 based on their promise to create a mechanism to allow for towns to demerge. The question is will the Liberals renege on their promise and make it so difficult and unattractive for towns to demerge that their efforts ultimately fail. In the end they will not only have to fight with their own provincial government in the lead-up to the referendum but as well the newly-formed megacity of Montreal that seeks to hang on to their new vastly expanded tax base and sweeping island-wide powers.
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“THE VILLAGE RESISTS: The Forced Municipal Mergers of Quebec” directed by Ryan Young
In English, 115 mins., Canada, 2008
Date: Thursday, March 19th, 7:30pm
Address: CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre, 5170, Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., corner Westbury. 2 blocks west of metro Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Tickets: $8 general / $6 students/seniors (65+). Seating is limited. For tickets please call the Box Office 514-739-7944. Tickets also available at Admission.com
THE VILLAGE RESISTS: The Forced Municipal Mergers of Quebec, a new feature-length documentary by Ryan Young, is the only film that has been made about one of the most significant political issues in recent Quebec history that many would argue has produced the current Quebec political landscape. The Liberals won the election of 2003 based on their promise to create a mechanism for municipalities to demerge, and then many would say were punished in the 2007 election for not respecting their promises fully on the demerger file and subsequently ended up with a minority government.
THE VILLAGE RESISTS examines a significant period in Quebec’s history when the Parti Québécois government imposed municipal mergers across the province despite a massive and organized grassroots resistance from the population. The documentary traces these developments and their impacts on a small quirky bilingual town on the western tip of the island of Montreal named Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue that is proud of its 300-year old history and its system of local government.
Led by their colourful and charismatic mayor Bill Tierney, residents are given a second chance to get their municipality back again when the Jean Charest Liberals win the provincial election of 2003 based on their promise to create a mechanism to allow for towns to demerge. The question is will the Liberals renege on their promise and make it so difficult and unattractive for towns to demerge that their efforts ultimately fail. In the end they will not only have to fight with their own provincial government in the lead-up to the referendum but as well the newly-formed megacity of Montreal that seeks to hang on to their new vastly expanded tax base and sweeping island-wide powers.
To be on our mailing list, please email esoiferman@segalcentre.org
