Le confort et lindifference

Le confort et lindifference is a 1981 documentary film by Denys Arcand, offering an analysis of the 1980 Quebec referendum, in which "sovereignty-association" was defeated as a first step to eventual secession from Canada. The film takes the position that the referendum result was a failure of courage and that the Quebecois were numbed by prosperity and the explicitly Machiavellian manipulations of federalist leaders.