Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-hand regional coverage, White on his latest trip signed on new stringers to report to TIME from Churchill, The Pas, Grande Prairie, Whitehorse, Prince George and Fort William. These bring the number of part-time correspondents (in addition to TIME'S three full-time bureaus in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal) to an all-time high...
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent interrupted his vacation last week to put in a few days at his Ottawa desk. To a newsman's familiar question, he gave a frank answer: the government has no plans to call an election this year. Most Ottawa politicos are now convinced that the government will go to the people next June. By then, the long-delayed Trans-Canada gas pipeline should be operating, thus eliminating one potentially damaging campaign issue, and if revenues continue high, the government may also be able to cut taxes just before election time...
Last week the U.S. and Canada moved to straighten out the legal kink. U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant and Finance Minister Walter Harris signed a treaty in Ottawa lowering the 95% requirement on foreign ownership to 51%. When the treaty is ratified by Parliament and Congress, probably at their next sessions, U.S. firms in Canada will be permitted to sell up to 49% of their stock in the country where they do business and still qualify for the low 5% dividend tax rate. Canadians will then be able-and probably will be urged-to make a tenfold increase in their investment...
...Then he donned a brown suit (his lucky color) and set off crisscrossing the province in one of his gaudy, old-style election campaigns, complete with banners, fireworks, and plentiful displays of the Duplessis-commissioned fleur-de-lis flag. His main theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion. Ottawa's contingent of campaigning Cabinet ministers may have served to strengthen his argument; Defender Duplessis pointed to them as further evidence of Ottawa's plan to destroy Quebec's traditions...
Against such campaigning, the desperate Liberals stooped to using a demagogic line of their own, charging that Duplessis was selling out the province's resources to U.S. investors. Ironically, this was the same accusation that opponents have been hurling at the Liberal government in Ottawa. But on the Quebec hustings the Liberal politicians unblushingly fired it at Duplessis, charging that the big iron-ore project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals. It merely drew the voters' attention to the province's vast industrial development and general...