Liberal Values in Quebec

In Claude Ryan’s manifesto, Liberal Values in Contemporary Quebec, he describes concerns and progress through the years of the Quebec liberal government. Ryan outlines ways in which they have addressed (or, very infrequently, plan to address) these issues in his essay. Explored here will be two of the central contexts of social welfare—feminism and an aging population ( as illustrated in Armitage’s Social Welfare in Canada ) and how they are reflected, attended to, and cause conflict in Ryan’s views of Liberal values in modern day Quebec.
In a dissertation dissecting a paper on liberal values and social welfare, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what constitutes a feminist issue. All fundamental problems in society, one might argue, are gendered and deal with oppression and therefore fall under the umbrella of feminist issues. Ryan does, however, seems to be appealing to the feminist readers when he discusses in his essay the increased amount of women in univ...