bout de papier, Volume 17, Issue No. 1, 2000
The Transition from Liberal Leader to Prime Minister: 15 November (1948)
In mid-November, the Prime Minister of Canada — a former Secretary of State for External Affairs, who had first been elected to the House of Commons nearly forty years earlier, who had led the Liberal Party of Canada to three consecutive electoral…
Defining and Defending a Place in the World
In the wake of the terrorist attacks over one year ago and in light of the myriad responses to those events in North America and around the world, there has been an understandable attention in Canada as elsewhere to what has changed…
Prime and Other Ministers
For a party in power, the timing of a change in leadership can be an awkward and vexatious question, particularly when the Prime Minister seems determined to use his discretion to choose the precise moment of his departure. Those contending for the…
Mr. Heeney Goes to Washington — Eventually
“In some respects,” Jack Granatstein has written, “Arnold Heeney fitted the concept of a perfect civil-service mandarin.” Heeney had been recruited personally by W.L. Mackenzie King in 1938 to serve as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister: Steering adroitly around King’s more…
External Affairs: Coming of Age 1946-1968 // L’essor, 1946-1968
Middle Power Diplomacy. The Golden Age of Canadian Foreign Policy. A Fundamental Re-examination.
Memories of Mike Pearson
by John Edward Belliveau
