Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the French-speaking province of Quebec was a quaint backwater off the Canadian mainstream, slow to develop but full of lively tales about the grafting ways of Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale party. Soon after the mighty Duplessis died in 1959, the Liberals came to power under a new Premier, Jean Lesage, 48, pledged to clean up and modernize Quebec. Last week Lesage took himself and his reform program to the polls in a snap election. The results were decisive: Lesage's Liberals gained nine seats to win a solid majority of 63 seats...
...Hints. Like every other Canadian politician these days, French-speaking Lesage, a Quebec City lawyer, is a student of The Making of a President, 1960. During the campaign, he traveled 15,000 miles across the province in six weeks, and at the end he eagerly accepted a challenge to meet his opponent. Union Nationale Leader Daniel Johnson, in a Kennedy-Nixon style TV debate. Just to be on the safe side, three Lesage aides flew to Washington to find out if there were any tricks left out of the Kennedy manual. They returned with four helpful Kennedy-staff TV hints...
Mistaken Maxim. Lesage's smashing victory made him a hot national property for the Liberals in Ottawa, particularly since the party historically alternates its leadership between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Current Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, who took over from French Canadian Louis St. Laurent, is working hard to topple the five-month-old minority government of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and to force new elections. One of the reasons Pearson did not win power in last June's elections was his failure to get Lesage's full support in Quebec. Following the provincial idea...
Shortly after the dictator's assassination, it reports, the Trujillos deposited $35 million in the Bank of Nova Scotia under the name of three cover-up Canadian corporations: later, when the new Dominican government tried to recover the money from Canada, it was transferred to a Geneva bank. More millions poured directly into Switzerland through a network of front companies spread across the Continent. At least seven such fronts were set up in tiny, tax-haven Liechtenstein, and their funds were deposited in Swiss banks. When Swiss bankers were asked by the Dominican government not to accept Trujillo funds...
...part of the program, now in its second year, they met informally with Canadian students in eight discussion groups, and attended conferences on foreign policy and communications. The Harvard students were also entertained at several receptions...