The Road Back : : By a Liberal in Opposition /

The Road Back : : By a Liberal in Opposition / / J.W. Pickersgill.

The irrepressible Jack Pickersgill – sometime Liberal cabinet minister and party strategist, ever the bane of the Diefenbaker Tories – is back. This latest volume in his memoirs brims with an insider’s special understandings of the workings of government and the personalities that drive it. It cover...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Pickersgill, J.W.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1986
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • June 1957: Shock!
  • A new prime minister
  • The switch to opposition
  • St Laurent resigns as party leader
  • Pearson takes over
  • Parliament is dissolved February 1958
  • Fighting for my political life
  • Election results
  • Organizing my life
  • Pearson as leader
  • Parliament opens
  • The Broadcasting Act
  • The BC ferry crisis
  • Atlantic affairs
  • The tide begins to ebb: 1959
  • The RCMP in Newfoundland
  • How Newfoundland Liberal MPs reacted to Pearson
  • Newfoundland and term 29
  • Federal-provincial relations
  • The Trans-Canada highway
  • The National Gallery
  • 'Heads will roll'
  • Immigration and citizenship
  • Diefenbaker and the Speaker
  • To the end of 1959
  • 1960: Unemployment
  • The Opposition supports reforms
  • The Bill of Rights
  • The Kingston conference
  • Away from Parliament
  • The session of 1960-61
  • The Coyne affair
  • A bill to remove Coyne
  • Rights to hearings
  • The Senate and the Coyne affair
  • The treatment of Donald Gordon
  • Diefenbaker's problems with his ministers
  • Serious moments
  • Frivolous moments
  • Outside Parliament
  • The session of 1962
  • Argue quits the NOP
  • Ariwna Charlie's
  • Redistribution
  • The election of 1962
  • The new Parliament
  • The first vote of confidence
  • Speaker Lambert and the House
  • The second vote of confidence
  • Breaches of responsible government
  • The Atlantic Development Board
  • Bilingualism and Biculturalism
  • The nuclear crisis
  • The government falls
  • The election of 1963
  • A Liberal government agam
  • The Gordon budget
  • Adjusting the Atlantic Development Board
  • Diefenbaker repudiates his party
  • Divorces settled
  • The Social Credit schism
  • Crisis over Hal Banks
  • The Social Credit dispute settled
  • Further tribulations of a House leader
  • Redistribution under way
  • Ministerial duties
  • Winding up the session of 1963
  • Reflections
  • Index

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