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Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1969

1970

The minister of justice also made clear that the purpose of the legislation was not "compulsory bilingualism": "The aim of the bill is that there should be equality of access to the federal institutions of government, that every citizen should be able to com- municate with the federal government in either of the two languages." None the less, it presented the Conservatives with a serious problem. [...] In a speech which he delivered in Ottawa to the International Press Institute on June 9, Mr Trudeau declared that one of the reasons for the opposition and confusion over the languages bill was the failure of the press to explain it adequately to the public. [...] Having reached the conclusion that the majority of the country was unconcerned by the government's proposals, Mr Trudeau told the House that "In a democracy the ballot box, not the filibuster, is the ultimate and appropriate technique of assessment." On the following day during the adjournment debate, he elaborated on his strategy. [...] While the time had come for the NDP to declare its determination to free the country from foreign domination, the deputy leader pointed out, it should not be for reasons of "arid nationalism and anti-Americanism." To bury the party's policy "in words foreign to the Canadian people and put around it a lot of their issues, is to lose the objective and betray the Canadian people." To portray the mani [...] The growth of the Prime Minister's Office, the streamlining of the cabinet, and the reforms of the rules of the House of Commons led W. A. Wilson (Montreal Star, April 10) to conclude that the Trudeau administration was "the most mechanically efficient government that Canada has had since, perhaps the early days of the St.
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John Saywell, John T Editor Saywell

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CaOOCEL
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320.9/71/064
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9781442671836 0802017363
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00688215
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F1001
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C215 1969eb
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1 electronic text (532 p.)
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Canada
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