Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having undergone two general elections in the past ten months and four in the past six years, the Canadian electorate is uneasy about the continued existence of minority governments. Last B. Pearson, Canada's new prime minister, based his campaign on the issue of stable government and responsible leadership, hoping to get a majority in the twenty-sixth Parliament. Unfortunately, Pearson received only 42 per cent of the popular vote, while the Conservatives garnered 32 per cent, the Social Credit 14, and the New Democratic Party 12. The country felt general dissatisfaction with both traditional parties and expressed it with...
...Pearson has been in office for the first five of the sixty-day period during which he promised to "get Canada moving again." Although he is three members short of a majority he has been pledged the support of 41 seats now held by the New Democratic and Social Credit parties. But because Parliament does not convene until May 16, it is difficult to determine exactly what his government intends to do. The only indication so far has been the appointment of his Cabinet. In choosing his 25 Minister, Pearson has judiciously mixed members of Canada's so-called political...
...Pearson, it was a week of exhilara tion and new beginnings. A baby was named for him in Newfoundland-and so were two penguin chicks hatched in Vancouver's zoo. Technically, he was still four seats shy of an absolute parliamentary majority. But the two splinter parties, with 41 seats between them, had both promised support on most issues. A frantic argument shook the funny-money Social Credit Party over six Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that...
Choosing with Care. Preparing for the formal changeover this week, Pearson picked his Cabinet with care, balancing off the oldtimers who had stayed with him in the lean years against the bright newcomers he himself had recruited. The key job of Secretary of State for External Affairs goes to Paul Martin, 59, who lost the Liberal leadership to Pearson in 1958, but loyally stayed on as a foreign relations expert; Pearson's Finance Minister will be Walter Gordon, 57, a Toronto management consultant and close friend, who spent the week working on the budget Pearson has promised for June...
Before anything else, Pearson wanted to get in visits with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy. The White House was already at work on an agenda: nuclear weapons; the Columbia River power impasse; Canada's prospective role in the Organization of American States, which Pearson believes his nation should join. Along with this, he was immersed in plans for his "60 days of decision." Asked when they would begin, Pearson shot back without hesitation: "When I take over...