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...through Canada's eight-week election campaign, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Liberal Leader Lester Pearson were politicians in search of an issue. The crowds turned out in numbers, but the oratory sounded as if it were from a leftover LP record, and this time the campaigners were playing the dull side. In the final stage of the campaign, just when he seemed to be running out of things to say, John Diefenbaker decided that he had found his issue...
...chance to vindicate himself and, on TV, proceeded to twist McNamara's words to his political advantage. "That means that we are just a decoy to draw fire," said Diefenbaker. To reporters, he was exultant. "Happy days are here," he chortled. "This has really put the skids under Pearson. This is the knockout blow." Gleefully he added: "It came at just the right time...
Caouette is the most conspicuous new political phenomenon in Canada, and a man who on April 8 could wind up holding the balance of power in a nation deeply divided between Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Conservatives and Lester Pearson's Liberals. Caouette's platform is based on the funny-money Social Credit party, which in the Depression promised a printing-press prosperity (each citizen should get a share of the national wealth-in cash...
...four seats. "This time," promises Caouette, "we are going to take 60 seats." Last week's Gallup poll gave the Liberals 41% (a drop of 3%), the Conservatives 32%; the only significant shift since the beginning of the campaign was a 5% gain, to 16%, for Social Credit. Pearson needs Quebec to win clear control of Parliament, and it looks...
Finally, the Liberals will win a majority of seats in Quebec for three reasons. First, although Pearson may have displeased French-Canadians in Quebec by his nuclear policy, his recognition of the bicultural problem has more than regained their sympathy. Second, though scarcely a here figure, Pearson represents a responsible leadership and a stable government to the politically sophisticated. Third, and perhaps meet important, Lesage and others, merely by acknowledging the existence of the federal Liberal party, attract French-Canadian support to Pearson...