I will maintained that Paul Sauvé, Quebec Premier, was assassinated by a conspiracy linking the liberal Party of Quebec and the Feds, and I will do so until my dying breath
>Maurice "the Boss" Duplessis, party leader of the Union Nationale, known pennypincher and autonomist, dies in office in 1959
>his successor, Paul Sauvé, essentially steals the Liberal Party's political platform from underneath their feet, calls it the will of Duplessis: "Désormais".
>the union Nationale falls in line, and massive liberal and nationalist reforms start being investigated if not rapidly put into place in only a few months
>Duplessis' austerity led to a strong provincial apparatus free from lobbies to follow a central decision body
>Sauvé makes it a point to say that fed involvement in provincial matters is over, tries to wrestle the universities' funding away from Ottawa, along with the health insurance system of the time
>genuinely looks like Quebec might try to wrestle its de facto independance from the feds on the long term with him in charge
>suddenly Sauvé dies of a (((heart attack))) and much of the Union Nationale fractures, paving the way for the soft-bellied Libs to half-ass liberalism and curtail nationalism/autonomism for almost a decade
>inb4 Hydro-Quebec
yeah that was Duplessis, actually; the libs just had the fucking gall to claim the credit for it since the project was on the finish line when they got in power.