Work Force, the start of the "Quiet Revolution" was the 1960 election of Jean Lesage and the Liberals. It refers in particular to the 'secularization' of key social institutions such as education and health as well as the nationalization of key resource industries such as hydro. The federal government) was well awake to the rise of sovereignty as it was the trigger for creating the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in 1965 - that woke the rest of Canada up.