Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pearson can marshal a few more Conservative votes and get around another Diefenbaker filibuster, he may yet have his national flag - without calling for a vote of confidence and risking a general election...
...Canadian parliamentary issues have generated more heat and less light than the fight over a national flag. In May, Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson unfurled his choice for a flag - three red maple leaves on a white ground, bounded by two blue bars. And for the next six weeks, Canada's House of Commons argued about it in a nerve-frazzling filibuster led by Tory Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker. At last Diefenbaker wryly allowed as how the debate was going nowhere. So why not submit the issue to a 15-man committee whose "unanimous decision" would be binding? Since...
...expected, the vote was not unanimous - therefore not binding. Yet it offered Pearson the first real hope in weeks that he might finally get a national flag to help give his fractious country a sense of nationhood and unity...
...Pearson's new source of hope springs from a sudden weakening in Diefenbaker's Conservative leadership. Diefenbaker has long argued that Conservatives would never accept a flag that left out the Union Jack as a symbol of Canada's historic ties to Great Britain...
...Time for Work. In Quebec, too, there seemed to be the realization, at least among its leaders, that now was the time for work and conciliation. Last week, after Elizabeth returned to Britain, Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage turned up in Ottawa for a meeting with Pearson and Canada's nine other provincial premiers. The subject was a request that Britain give up its formal, though purely ceremonial, right to approve all amendments to Canada's constitution. The request itself was certain to be approved, but in earlier meetings, Lesage had quibbled over the new formula...