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...Canadian Parliament's least happy duty is to act as a divorce court for the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland. It is an arrangement originally made as a concession to populous Roman Catholic Quebec, which frowns on divorce and declines to establish a court of its own. The sole ground for a parliamentary divorce is adultery. Over the years, as the number of petitions grew (to more than 600 this year), Ottawa tacitly winked at its suspicion that Montreal detective agencies were doing a lucrative trade arranging the evidence. But last week an aggrieved husband named William Eccles blew...
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Lesage is known in Quebec French as "le go-getter." In 1945 he won a House of Commons seat from a rural riding. Most Quebec M.P.s insist on speaking French in Ottawa; Lesage gamely practiced his halting English in the House until he mastered it. In 1958 he resigned his Parliament seat to take on the job of reviving Quebec's moribund Liberal organization. He is married to a former concert soprano, Corinne Lagarde, has four children...
Lesage's victory in Quebec buoyed up the spirits of the federal Liberals, who form the loyal Opposition to Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. In Commons on the morning after Lesage's victory, the small Liberal contingent...
M.P.s out of 262-applauded for one full minute when Opposition Leader Lester ("Mike'') Pearson rose to speak. But the Tories professed not to be worried. Their provincial organization in Quebec is practically nonexistent, even though they captured 50 of 75 Quebec seats in the federal House of Commons in the 1958 election. Since their ties with the old Duplessis machine were informal at best, they insist that the Liberal upset in Quebec does not really affect the Diefenbaker government's national popularity. All this is true, but Quebec itself-that proud, peculiar and partisan province...