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...leadership of aging (69) ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Yet the north woods are full of politicians who have learned to rue the day they counted Diefenbaker out. No sooner did Pearson drop his hints than the old Conservative war horse made a surprisingly successful five-day tour of Quebec's rural eastern outbacks, pumping hands, signing autographs, trying out his fractured French, touring small stores and factories. Just before the last election, Diefenbaker was so unpopular in Quebec that there was real question whether he would be safe on a campaign swing through French Canada. But tempers cool...
...talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role in the delicate area of federal-provincial relations. Favreau would also stay on in the touchy slot of Quebec party leader...
...done anything wrong, but because my usefulness as a Minister of Justice has been impaired." Pearson backed him all the way. "My honorable friend," Pearson told the House of Commons, "remains a man and a minister of unimpeachable integrity and unsullied honor." Furthermore, Favreau would remain head of the Quebec Liberals and had been invited to consider "another post in the administration...
...administration. In December 1963 Pearson's Postmaster General resigned amid a parliamentary uproar over the appointment of defeated Liberal candidates as "consultants." The next to go was a Minister Without Portfolio who resigned after two Montreal dailies reported that he took a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters pick up a franchise. A Quebec royal commission last September accused a Liberal member of the Commons' Banking and Commerce Committee of making an "unlawful and unconscionable profit" of $62,605 on a school land purchase in Montreal. He was acquitted in court, but only...
...fact that Pearson's government is doing a good job of managing Canada's thriving economy, has improved federal-provincial relations, and tried to ease the dangerous split between English-and French-speaking Canadians. Favreau's resignation could well impair these relations by creating doubt about Quebec's Liberal leadership among provincial voters. The Conservatives would love to topple Pearson's government and force new elections. But the party is in the midst of an intramural fight over the leadership of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who at 69 is growing waspish and curmudgeonly...