Quebec versus Ottawa : : The Struggle for Self-Government, 1960–72 / / Claude Morin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Morin, Claude,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

From 1963 to 1971, during a period that witnessed growing stress and strain in Quebec’s relations with the federal government, Claude Morin was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in Quebec. In setting forth his point of view on many of the issues and conflicts with Ottawa, from the pension plan to the constitutional conferences, this book should help English-speaking Canadians to an understanding of the Québécois ideas of federalism during these years and of how people in Quebec can come to believe that sovereignty is essential. Quebec versus Ottawa is an edited and updated translation by Richard Howard of Le Pouvoir Québécois…en négotiation, published in French in 1972, and Le Combat québécois (1973). It thus has two parts ‘Experience,’ dealing more with the facts of Quebec-Ottawa relations during the troubled sixties, and ‘Answers,’ describing the structure and rules of Canadian federalism as the author experience them.M. Morin is not presenting arguments for the independence of Quebec but is rather recording and evaluating his experience of how our government works – a rare thing for a senior civil servant to do.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation -- Preface to the English Edition -- PART 1 EXPERIENCES -- 1. The Gains of the Sixties: What were they? -- 2. A Beginning: The Pension Plan -- 3. A Liberty Surveyed: The Shared Cost Programs -- 4. Give Us Our Treasure: Fiscal Sharing -- 5. The Urban Guerrilla: Housing and Renewal -- 6. Special Friendships: France and Quebec -- 7. Liaisons dangereuses: The International Conferences -- 8. A Piece of Leaven?: Quebec in Federal Policy -- 9. End of a Dream: The Constitutional Review -- PART 2. ANSWERS -- 10. The Golden Calf: Ottawa's Suit -- 11. The Gospel According to Saint Ottawa -- 12. Fellow Travellers: The Conference Room -- 13. The Fifth Column, and the Sixth -- 14. The Silent Majority -- 15. The Magnetic Pendulum: Growing Imbalance -- 16. On to Ottawa: The Logic of the System -- 17. The Government is Ourselves -- 18. Conclusion: The Present Imperative