title: Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems
text: # Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems
  
  * This article is part of a series aboutMaurice Duplessis
  
  Family
  
  Law career
  
  Pre-premiership politics (1923-1935)
  
  Conservative Party of Quebec
  
  1923 campaign
  
  1927 election
  
  1931 election
  
  1935 election
  
  First premiership (1936-1939)
  
  1936 election
  
  Union Nationale (Action libérale nationale)
  
  Great Depression in Canada
  
  Padlock Law (Switzman v Elbling)
  
  1939 election (opposition to conscription)
  
  Return to the Official Opposition
  
  Second premiership (1944-1959)
  
  Politics
  
  Elections (1944, 1948, 1952, 1956)
  
  Flag of Quebec
  
  Fight for provincial autonomy (Tremblay Commission)
  
  Censorship
  
  Natural gas scandal [fr] (Salvas Commission [fr])
  
  Harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses (R v Boucher, Roncarelli v Duplessis)
  
  Economy
  
  Post-World War II economic expansion
  
  Baby boom
  
  Labour strikes (Montreal Cottons, Asbestos, Louiseville [fr], Murdochville)
  
  Investments (Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, Office de l'électrification rurale [fr], St. Lawrence Seaway, Manicouagan, Autoroutes of Quebec)
  
  Legacy and cultural references
  
  Grande Noirceur
  
  Opposition press (Le Devoir (The Negro-King theory [fr]), Cité Libre)
  
  Charbonneau et le Chef [fr]
  
  Duplessis Orphans
  
  Duplessis (TV series)
  
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  The Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems or Tremblay Commission was called for by the premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis in 1953. The commission, chaired by Mr. Justice Thomas Tremblay, studied the problem of tax sharing between different levels of government and greater constitutional problems in Canada.
  
  The commission held 97 public meetings throughout Quebec, received 217 briefs, launched several studies, and finally published a five-volume report in 1956. It proposed a maximum level of taxation be established, the provincial responsibility for unemployment benefits, and a shared personal and corporate tax scheme between the federal and provincial governments.
  
  