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...increase spread over two years. Backed by a federal conciliation board, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority offered a 12% raise, to an average $3.48 (Canadian) an hour. At the first negotiations since the walk-out began, the union cut its demand to 15%, but the deadlock persisted. Ottawa fears that a big settlement could set off inflationary wage increases, as happened after the seaway workers won a two-year, 30% pay boost...
Convinced that Ottawa lacked a philosophy of federalism to deal with Quebec, Trudeau successfully ran for Parliament in 1965. Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson soon after named him his parliamentary secretary and, in April 1967, appointed him Justice Minister. In that post, Trudeau attracted attention by his courage in steering through Parliament three unpopular measures: stricter gun-control legislation and reforms of harsh laws against abortion and homosexuality. Against critics of the liberalized homosexual law, Trudeau demonstrated his sense of irony. "Are we going to put all sin in the criminal code?" he asked them. "If so, it would...
Mind & Body. Until all this happened, Trudeau was not even listed in the Canadian Who's Who. His life was sheltered and private. He mixed in the rich English and French dinner-party circuit in Montreal and Ottawa, gathered around him people who were either from the same wealthy stratum of society or academically brilliant...
...blended into the wallpaper," recalls Lillian Spencer, manager of the Kennedy Travel Bureau, who handled the simple declaration that Ray signed, affirming that he was a Canadian citizen. Next day, on Miss Spencer's say-so, Travel Agent Henry Moos notarized the form and forwarded it to Ottawa...
...Lester B. Pearson, 71. Since he retired as Canada's Prime Minister last month, Pearson has declined an offer to teach full time at Yale, although he may give a series of lectures at Harvard next winter. He has settled into a small white cottage in suburban Ottawa, where he intends to spend his days savoring his wife's home cooking ("It's fantastic") and chasing down cobwebs. "We wanted a smallish house," he says, "so that I could do the housework...