Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month long, Prime Minister Lester Pearson has been playing a teasing game with Canadians. Every where he goes he talks in riddles about calling a new election-without ever quite saying it or setting a date. On a visit to Vancouver, he pointed out that an election would be impossible before the end of 1966, if he were to await results of an electoral redistribution now under way. "Do we want to begin our centennial year [1967] with an election?" he asked. "That could mean an election this fall," leaped a newsman. "You have a very succinct way of putting...
Wheat & Security. Why an election now? Mainly because Mike Pearson seems to want one. For the last 29 months, he has been governing with a minority in the House of Commons, depending on splinter parties to pass his legislation. Yet his Liberal party lacks only six seats for a full 133-seat majority. He obviously thinks he can pick them up, and possibly a lot more...
Disdaining the complaints, Pearson announced a Cabinet reshuffle that was designed to look like reform but was at best a halfway housecleaning. To his credit, Pearson did take care of one little problem that was hanging fire. Guy Rouleau, the P.M.'s own parliamentary secretary, had been involved in the case and had resigned; now Pearson drummed Rouleau out of the House of Commons and the party altogether...
Favreau's new appointment brought a storm of criticism against Mike Pearson's Liberal government, which has been tarnished in a series of other scandals. Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker cried angrily that "no other country in the world would have given Favreau another Cabinet appointment...
...these moves will strike Parliament when it reconvenes next September remains in doubt. Members of Pearson's Liberal minority government applauded his loyalty to Favreau. But Pearson failed to strengthen the leadership of a government in which the bribery scandal was only one of many difficulties needing attention-most importantly the conflict between the provinces and federal government, and the dangerous split between French-and English-speaking Canadians...