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Minister St. Laurent: I object to the honorable member's charging the Government with taking a position. The Government has not taken a position on this...
...Tongues. St. Laurent was born 63 years ago at Compton, Quebec, near the Vermont border. He is a polished, flawless bilinguist by inheritance: his father was a French Canadian merchant, his mother a first generation Irish Canadian. ("I didn't know at first there were two languages in Canada. I just thought there was one way to talk to my father and another way to talk to my mother...
...degree at Quebec's Laval University, went to work in 1905 in the law office of Quebec's famed Louis Philippe Pelletier, onetime Postmaster General. By 1923 St. Laurent had his own law firm. By the mid-'30s he had grown into Quebec's legal giant...
...Canada's surprise, he was drafted into politics in December 1941 as Mr. King's choice to succeed the late Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe. At his first press conference, Minister St. Laurent told reporters: "I know nothing at all about politics." In his first election campaign, he proved it by telling his ultra-isolationist constituents in Quebec East that he would vote for conscription. But he was elected with a whopping majority. He scored another tremendous victory in last June's election...
...Laurent's greatest political assets is the fact that he is English-speaking Canada's conception of the perfect French Canadian. Handsome, dapper, with close-cropped hair that has turned from black to grey since he entered the Cabinet, he looks like a storybook Frenchman. Yet not even the most suspicious outsider can find in him the slightest trace of Quebec provincialism...