It is also distinguished in being not necessarily conflictual or oppositional in operation. With it, he posited that individualistic, competitive and conflictual society is avoidable. This conflictual concept has overwhelming political salience. Canada experienced "conflictual federalism" from 1970 to 1984, generating tensions with Quebec and other provinces. As in other sectors, industrial relations under the Thatcher Government continued to be conflictual. Goedhart became a conflictual figure, clashing both at his newspaper and with his party members. An unanswered question was therefore how an otherwise peaceful crowd might become conflictual. For its first thirty years, Rastafari was in a conflictual relationship with the Jamaican authorities. The story of a father and a son, farmers, whose relationships are conflictual. The United Church of Canada had a lengthy and conflictual debate on homosexuality.