The culture history of the Provice of Quebec

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Paul Émile Borduas and the Refus Global: Artists and the Secularization of Québec, 1930–1970
By Gord Dimitrieff, November 1997. Québec has experienced growing secularization resulting from many factors such as increasing government control over education and health care, and internal problems within the Church. Artists and intellectuals also contributed by increasing their challenge to the traditional values held by the Church.