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...helicopters that acts as a search and rescue service. In their grey stone Ottawa headquarters, the Mounties have access to the most modern anti-crime laboratories, plus bank upon bank of filing cabinets filled with criminal identification data. Mounties serve as provincial police in eight Canadian provinces (all except Quebec and Ontario), are the municipal cops in 120 towns and villages, and nab thousands of speeders yearly on Canada's highways...
When Montreal planned a subway, it turned to Paris' Métro as a model. When the city's police force was overhauled, Paris detectives were called in for advice. When Quebec drew up its six-year development plan, it was only natural to turn for inspiration to France's successful planification économique. And when Quebec Premier Jean Lesage journeyed to Paris to open a $340,000 Maison du Quebec two years ago, Charles de Gaulle welcomed him with all the pomp usually accorded a head of state...
...Frontier. In Montreal last week to reveal to Quebec the full extent of its spiritual and material inheritance were Minister of State for Cultural Affairs André Malraux and 130 top French businessmen and officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...
...found himself on a new frontier of De Gaulle's grand new France: "I'm not here to tell you what France can do for you but rather what France expects from you." Malraux humbly expressed "remorse for our past attitude toward French Canada," pleaded for Quebec to create a distinctive French culture in North America...
...eight days, French Canadians hung on his every word. The English-language Montreal Star even speculated on what might have been had Quebec remained part of France, and quoted one French intellectual's view: "Quebec would have played a vital role in keeping French culture alive during the Second World War. The postwar renaissance of France would have come from Quebec...