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Interview of Leon Balcer, former Minister of Transport of Canada, by Peter Stursberg, reporter, about: his political career; George Drew; John G. Diefenbaker; Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention, 1956; federal election 1957; Progressive Conservative government - Quebec representation in Cabinet, 1957-63; Maurice Duplessis; Leslie Frost; Paul Sauvé; Daniel Johnson; federal-provincial relations with Québec; Marcel Chaput; Noël Dorion; Henri Courtemanche; Progressive-Conservative gov't., 1957-62; social security; federal election 1962; Progressive Conservative Party leadership crisis, l962-63, George Hees; M. Wallace McCutcheon; Robert Thompson; Pierre Sévigny; Progressive Conservative Party, Québec lieutenant, 1963-65; and the Liberal Party.
On March 29, 1971, a Canadian was found brutally murdered in a small Paris apartment. The victim, François Mario Bachand, was a radical member of the separatist Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), the terrorist group that had been causing havoc in Canada, planting bombs and carrying out kidnappings. Bachand served a jail term in the early 1960s, and after his release he was considered a loose cannon, heartily despised by many associates. It was widely believed that the FLQ had killed one of its own. Twenty years after Bachand died in Paris, author Michael McLoughlin came across a single document in the National Archives of Canada that shed an eerie new light on the circumstances of Bacha...
Reviews Canada's post-war history and recounts how Canadians strove for prosperity, international respectability, and a more vigorous national culture