The gov- of the First Nations’ moderate livelihood some of those demands and continued the ernment must ensure the conservation of the rights produced many proposals but no expansion of government support for the fishery. [...] This applies to the conservation mea- Indigenous buildings, violent outbursts, that Indigenous peoples in the Maritimes sures established by the Department of and a flood of angry words have poisoned are not going to retreat from their hard- Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast the political air in the Maritimes. [...] Howe, the their hold on government because, in the the Diefenbaker government to promote government helped assemble a group of eyes of many in the country, they had suc- major developments in the middle and far Canadian and American partners to build cumbed to the arrogance of power. [...] The CCF fought for public the Progressive Conservatives attacked the Before the 1956 pipeline debate, the ownership of the pipeline; the Tories wor- Liberals for trying to force through the con- confidence and decisiveness of the federal ried about American influence over a key tentious legislation. [...] the advent of the nuclear era (with all its the current government to look back at Remembering the work of St-Laurent’s attendant existential dangers), and the early St-Laurent’s legacy, and to remember that government reminds us of the fundamental years of major societal transformations.
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