Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian complaints are those of second-class citizenship. French Canadians feel that their countrymen pay nothing more than lip service to the idea of biculturalism. French is a foreign language in two-thirds of the country; road signs and transportation schedules are in English only; the federal government in Ottawa operates mainly in English. English Canadians hold the best civil service jobs. In Quebec itself, English-speaking outsiders control the major corporations. For a long time, noted the commission, "French-speaking Quebec acted as though it had accepted the idea of merely being a privileged 'ethnic minority.' Today...
...English nor French. And Pearson has gone far to meet Quebec Premier Jean Lesage's demands for nation-within-a-nation status by allowing Quebec to "opt out" of such national schemes as old-age welfare and public works, thus freeing provincial funds that would otherwise go to Ottawa...
...politician sat in his party headquarters in Ottawa, glowering furiously as a proposal was presented to the national executive committee suggesting that he step down after eight years as leader of Canada's Conservatives. At last John Diefenbaker, 69, rose to speak. "I will not have it!" he roared. "That is all there is to it!" A few minutes later, his supporters rejected the proposal by a narrow 55-52 vote...
...years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
Helping the Liberals? The leadership tangle dismays many Conservatives who could hope to gain in new elections at the expense of Mike Pearson's scandal-smudged Liberal government. This week, as the second session of Parliament reconvenes in Ottawa, Pearson faces questioning about the latest scandal, this one concerning a U.S. operator named Harry Stonehill who was supposedly asked for a payoff by immigration officials when he sought a Canadian residency permit...