Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quebec, more than the nation celebrating its centennial year. Rather than travel first to the federal capital of Ottawa, De Gaulle landed at the French possession of St. Pierre, 15 miles off Newfoundland, and sailed by cruiser up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City-refusing to fly the Canadian flag as protocol dictates...
...Double Edge. In his first speeches, De Gaulle started off cautiously, but he kept talking about French Canadians as a people that must "take its destiny in its own hands." He led crowds in singing the Marseillaise and did not seem displeased when hecklers booed the Canadian national anthem. At Montreal's city hall, he responded before a large, excited audience: "I find myself in an atmosphere the same as that of the liberation of Paris." A few moments later, he shouted "Vive le Quebec libre," the notorious cry of Quebec separatists...
...Gaulle was turning senile (see MEDICINE) and that he had been merely carried away by the high emotion of the occasion. Not so. He deliberately built up to his climax and pronounced the offending words with careful emphasis and an actor's precision. Watching the scene on TV, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson could hardly believe his ears, called for tapes of the speech...
Moynihan's plan is patterned after the 23-year-old Canadian allowance, based on the age of the child. He suggests something like $8 a month for each child under six, $12 a month for children between six and 17. For a family of four, this would mean a raise of about $40 a month, or roughly $500 a year. Small as the sum is, he says, it should be enough to "sharply reduce the number of Negro families living in poverty." Cost: about $9 billion a year, at least part of which would be offset by reduced welfare...
...exclaim: "Whether you agree with him or not, what a man!" Next week Canada will be exposed to the treatment. On a five-day visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...