Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Canada's official guests, the Winston Churchills, detrained at Quebec, Prime Minister and Official Host William Lyon Mackenzie King greeted them. Next day, just before the Anglo-Canadian conference, Winston Churchill good-naturedly fussed over posing for cameramen. On his right hand he put smiling Mackenzie King. Around that centerpiece he clustered the Canadian Cabinet War Committee. He said: "They want me to shake hands with a Minister," then reached out to grasp the hand of Air Minister C. G. Power...
After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...
Opposing Hands. The pleasantries and poses, as well as the main Allied business at Quebec, could do much for Canada's morale"and for the prestige of Mackenzie King and his Liberal Party. Mauled in the recent Ontario provincial elections (TIME, Aug. 16), the Liberals last week lost four Dominion parliamentary by-elections. The Prime Minister still holds a safe legislative majority, but that majority may now be out of tune with the country. Two population groups show growing restiveness...
Last week in a convention at Montreal the CCF of militant Quebec Province adopted a resolution demanding public ownership of all power resources in Canada. The resolution singled out the controversial $106,000,000 Shipshaw development in the hinterlands of Quebec (world's largest power dam, with the possible exception of Boulder), as a "scandalous exploitation of Canadian resources," made it a leading argument for public ownership, a vital campaign issue in the next election. To steer clear of interference with the war program, CCF tempered its resolution to read...
...aluminum on the American continent and to a large extent throughout the world." The method of finance, he contends, makes the project a "virtual gift" to the aluminum interests, and "the greatest financial grab ever pulled off in . . . Canada." Shipshaw, insists he, must be seized by the Province of Quebec...