For years Quebec had been Canada's South, but it is beginning to change. The workers there had been held down for some time, but now they've “got the bit in their teeth.” “There's some pretty radical-minded union leaders in Quebec.” The current government in Quebec - Partie Quebecque, a separatist group - received some labor support and has enacted legislation favorable to the little man, the working man. One reason for the low wages in Quebec in the past was the low percentage of heavy industry there, but that is shifting now.
