Word: bouchards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa's plush red Senate chamber. Télésphore Damien Bouchard rose to make his maiden speech as a Senator from Quebec Province. His explosive subject: the not-so-latent hostility between French Quebec and the rest of Canada. Said he: "I still believe that a large majority of my compatriots love Canada as it is, constitutionally and otherwise, and do not want any change in their allegiance. . . . Their only wrongdoing is that they care too little about those who . . . are sabotaging our free institutions. The worms are gnawing at the tree of liberty...
...Senator Bouchard said that this Order had been founded with the blessing of the French Canadian Catholic clergy. He said that the Order's leaders had infiltrated into patriotic societies, boards of trade and municipal councils. He said that Quebec's potent, ultraisolationist party, the Bloc Populaire, was the Order's political tool. He said that the Order's ultimate aim "is not only to disunite the people on lingual and religious matters, but also to disrupt confederation, to abandon the more humane North American concept of a large nation composed of different religious beliefs...
...Mass, (vending machines for candy, gum, cigarets) has had to cut production 30-50%, employment one-third, not only because of the die-casting shortage but for lack of steel and of cobalt nickel for the magnet that rejects phony coins. Du Grenier has no defense business. Says Treasurer Bouchard: "We are very much worried about the future...