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Partly because the party was badly split by an unsuccessful revolt against Diefenbaker's leadership, the Conservatives lost the 1963 election to Lester Pearson's Liberals. Despite his obvious desire to return to office, Diefenbaker has failed to find a popular issue on which to attack Pearson, actually lost prestige through his contentious opposition to Canada's new maple-leaf flag. The present revolt against him was staged by a group of respected Quebec M.P.s who consider Diefenbaker too old, too crotchety, too out of touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept...
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...
Conceivably, the Conservatives could muster enough strength to bring down Pearson's minority government and force an election. But while Pearson has lost support, he has not lost so much among Canada's calm, affluent citizens that they are ready to hurry out and vote for Diefenbaker. Many Conservatives think they would lose an election with the old man, and they are openly muttering that he is all that is keeping the Liberals in office...
...Race Track? The latest scandal was the forced resignation two weeks ago of Pearson's Minister Without Portfolio Yvon Dupuis. The youngest (38) man in the Cabinet, Dupuis was also one of the best campaigners and was extremely well connected to Quebec party bosses. Now Le Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson...
...Ottawa last week the talk was of a new election this spring-Canada's third in as many years. All this could have been expected to bring joy to the Conservative Party, which Pearson defeated in 1963. What it brought was a twanging in another set of rusty wires. Many Conservatives feel that former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 69, is too unpopular to lead them to election victory. They are pressing for a party caucus before Parliament convenes Feb. 16 to pick a new leader. Diefenbaker, after eight years of leadership, shows no inclination to fade quietly away...