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...penguin chicks hatched in Vancouver's zoo. Technically, he was still four seats shy of an absolute parliamentary majority. But the two splinter parties, with 41 seats between them, had both promised support on most issues. A frantic argument shook the funny-money Social Credit Party over six Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that the Liberals had been spreading some "rather handsome" money around. But after eleven hours of impassioned oratory at a party caucus in Ottawa...
Diefenbaker's answer to the subtle difficulties of biculturalism was to say: "There is only one state, one nation." This unalterable belief in unhyphenated Canadianism was anathema to French Canadians. Quebec's return to Liberalism and its whittling down of Caouette's strength were in part an answer to Pearson's promise of a royal commission to re-examine biculturalism. It was also a thoughtful agreement with his concern that if the nation does not return to the founding idea of "equal partnership, equal rights, equal responsibilities, then we may not succeed in preserving Confederation...
...waning, but the public was not yet ready to return the Liberals. Instead, the result was a distressing proliferation of minorities. On the left were Tommy Douglas' 19 New Democrats and on the right a protest party of 30 Social Crediters, speaking mainly for a disaffected French Quebec in the frenetic accents of a rural Chrysler dealer named Réal Caouette, who named Hitler and Mussolini as his economic heroes...
...Restless Quebec. Both for the narrowest of political reasons and the widest conception of national interest, the Liberals must do something to satisfy restless French Canada. They are in a better position to do so than the Tories. Under the new provincial leadership of Liberal Premier Jean Lesage. Quebec is at last emerging from a corrupt political history, a backward church-dominated educational system, and an unadventuresome economic structure...
...French dissatisfaction that Demagogue Caouette exploited was the feeling that French Canadians had been cheated out of their birthright. They thought, said Mike Pearson, that Confederation "meant partnership, not domination." but the result has been "an English-speaking Canada with a bilingual Quebec." In Ottawa, French-speaking civil servants are even required to write to each other in English-for ease of filing. Young French intellectuals bitterly call themselves the "white Negroes" of Canada. French Canadians outside Quebec, crusading for schooling in their own language, were recently told by a school trustee of one large Ontario city: "We have...