Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three offices a Prime Minister commands in Ottawa to the single office accorded the Opposition leader. He also had to swap houses, and prepared to take his belongings from the 30-room mansion on Sussex Drive to Stornoway, the house maintained for the Opposition by a group of Canadian businessmen. Then there was the cut in pay-$37,000 a year for Mike Pearson now, $27,000 for Diefenbaker as Opposition leader...
...llah, wrote his own five-foot shelf of divine revelations. In addition, Bahai (Persian for "follower of Baha'u'llah") broad-mindedly welcomes the wisdom of all the great religious teachers, from Moses to Christ to Mohammed to Buddha. "We love all religions," says Canadian-born Ruhiyyih Rabbani, widow of Baha'u'llah's great-grandson...
...made even more profitable, is trying to attract more riders with soft chairs, glareless windows and on-board rest rooms. To get more passengers away from railroads-many of which are not sorry to see them go-Greyhound is constantly speeding up its schedules. On its 681-mile Canadian run from Vancouver to Calgary, its buses now beat the train by an hour. In some cases Greyhound can even compete with planes: the sign of the dog makes the trip from downtown Chicago to downtown Milwaukee 50 minutes faster than a passenger...
Part of Gordon's trouble is that decisions vitally affecting Canadian jobs are often made in Detroit, New York or Dallas. Absentee capital (80% from the U.S.) owns 73% of mining, 61% of manufacturing, 80% of Canada's oil industry-more than in any other industrialized nation in the world. Gordon hopes gradually to shift the emphasis from direct investment to bond capital, such as developed a U.S. industry largely free from overseas control. Pearson made a campaign pledge to establish a national development corporation that would draw capital from pension and insurance funds and individuals, and have...
Defense. When they turned to defense, the Liberal Party planners decided that the issue involved was Canada's international word, a basic consideration to old Diplomat Pearson. "Nuclear virginity" is a favorite Canadian political stance, and Pearson was no more warmly disposed toward nuclear weapons than Diefenbaker was. But Diefenbaker agreed to play Canada's part in continental defense by acquiring Bomarc antiaircraft missiles and Voodoo interceptors, only to refuse the nuclear warheads for which they were designed. The Honest John artillery missiles with the Canadian Army Brigade on NATO duty in Germany were, to keep them balanced...