The premier and attorney general of Quebec , Maurice Duplessis , was a dictator who , according to Quebec historian Gérard Pelletier , inflicted upon the province “ a twenty - year reign of lies , injustice and corruption , the systematic misuse of power , the sway of small minds and the triumph of stupidity . ”
The premier and attorney general of Quebec , Maurice Duplessis , was a dictator who , according to Quebec historian Gerard Pelletier , inflicted upon the province “ a twenty - year reign of lies , injustice and corruption , the systematic misuse of power , the sway of small minds and the triumph of stupidity . ”