Union Nationale and isolationism?

Question

How did Union Nationale show isolationism for Quebec? And what did the federal government of Canada do about it? Did it help end isolationism?

Answer 1

Canadian politics in the context of Quebec gets a little complicated. The UNIR (Union Nationale des Independents Republicains) was led by Jacques Isorni during the two decades after WWII. Part of the "isolationism" was that France was involved in the Vietnam war (the colonial one before the Americans came in). The UNIR did not want to be involved in it which many of the Canadian French did in support for their homeland--especially to spite those of English ancestry.

Check out Harvey Gerald Simmons' The French National Front: The Extremist Challenge to Democracy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press/Persius, 1996).