Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polls to decide whether to renew Diefenbaker's mandate or return to office what the opposition calls the "Liberal Team" led by onetime External Affairs Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, 65 - or possibly give neither a clear majority in what is starting off as the tightest Canadian election race this century...
Everyone in Ottawa's House of Com mons knew roughly what to expect when the Prime Minister rose for his announcement. Elected in 1958 with the largest parliamentary majority in Canadian his tory, Diefenbaker still had eleven months to go in his five-year term, though it is never prudent to go to the country at the last moment. He would really have preferred to delay the election until September, he said, but the Liberals' "delaying tactics and obstruction" had made it "al most impossible to proceed with the busi ness of the House." Thus, Diefenbaker explained blandly...
...China, are in a better mood now than they are apt to be after the summer's expected drought. And by fall, if Britain joins the European Common Market, Canada may lose its low Commonwealth tariffs on its $900 mil lion exports to Britain, bringing trouble to Canadian export industries...
...truck nor trade with the Yankees!") have more fundamental uncertainties clouded Canada's future-including the vital questions raised by Britain's move to throw in its lot with Europe, a thorny debate over whether Canada should accept U.S. nuclear arms, and the continuing Canadian quandary over the pervasive commercial and cultural influence of the U.S. At home, a basic economic imbalance has slowed Canada's growth rate to less than 1%. while chronic unemployment has averaged 6.8% of the labor force since...
Welcome Without Wages. Son of an Irish father and French Canadian mother, Whalen grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side, earned his first pennies by lighting Sabbath fires for Jewish families at 5? a fire. By 1918, he had risen to an executive job at Wanamaker's department store, left to become secretary to newly elected Mayor John Hylan. His first big assignment: the welcoming arrangements for returning U.S. doughboys...