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...Pearson was seriously concerned about the country's 6,000,000 French Canadians, who in recent years have felt increasingly isolated and restless among Canada's English-speaking majority-so much so that many of them have begun to call for the outright secession of French-speaking Quebec. Aware, as Pearson put it, that any such divorce would produce "rupture, and loss and pain," the ministers took only three days to agree on what they must do. They decided not only to rewrite the country's constitution but also to introduce a host of administrative changes that...
...They decided to work as a committee over the next few years to draw up changes in Canada's century-old constitution, including guarantees of linguistic and cultural equality for the French Canadian minority. Endorsing the broad reforms recommended by a Royal Commission, they vowed to break down Quebec's "ghetto complex" by setting up French as an official language along with English wherever large communities of French Canadians are found. Eight of the ten provinces announced that they would begin to hire more French-speaking teachers, translators and civil servants, and to print official documents in French...
...three days, was an unprecedented airing of national issues. The ten men argued out their aspirations for Canada and their fears and doubts over the planned reforms, as well as their rivalries, regional ambitions and cultural prejudices. Though pleased with the conciliatory mood of the other leaders, Quebec's Johnson still wants more autonomy and authority than his province now has. He would like to see federal power shrink and Quebec get more tax money, provincial control over publicly owned radio and TV stations and even the right to carry on relations with foreign governments. Neither Pearson...
...Diefenbaker for wearing a sports shirt and ascot in Parliament. But he is also a widely traveled law professor and economist and -very important-a bilingual Québecois who gets along as well at the mannerly teas of the English-speaking majority as at mercurial political rallies in Quebec and Montreal. A firm opponent of separatism, Trudeau believes that the only way to discourage it is to make French Canadians feel as comfort able elsewhere in Canada as they are in French-speaking Quebec...
What few border problems there have been have come from the other side. Twice last fall American immigration officials charged only with checking those coming from Canada to the United States stopped two suspicious-looking young men going into Quebec and ran thorough checks on their draft statuses. The Montreal Council to Aid War Resisters screamed to Ottawa, Ottawa screamed to the United States, and there seems little likelihood of a repetition of the incidents...