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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807418403321

Autore

Black Eldon <1925->

Titolo

Direct intervention [[electronic resource] ] : Canada-France relations 1967-1974 / / Eldon Black

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Ottawa], : Carleton University Press, c1997

ISBN

1-283-53027-9

9786613842725

0-7735-8092-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Carleton library series ; ; 187.

Disciplina

327.71044

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General

Canada Foreign relations France

France Foreign relations Canada

Canada Foreign relations 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: 1960-1967 -- 1. Arrival in Paris: General De Gaulle's Press Conference -- 2. Early Days: Some Protagonists -- 3. La Francophonie and the Outbreak of Hostilities: The Gabon Affair -- 4. The Trials of an Elder Statesman: The Events of May 1968 -- 5. A Transatlantic Slanging Match: The Rossillon Affair -- 6. A Premier Dies, Two Prime Ministers Meet -- 7. "Business as Usual" -- 8. An Exchange of Ambassadors -- 9. Jean-Guy Cardinal in Paris: Space Communications -- 10. Hostilities in Africa, Round Two -- 11. De Gaulle Departs, Gaullism Remains -- 12. The New French Government: The Policy of Duality -- 13. A Disastrous Autumn -- 14. Much Ado About Visits -- 15. The Second Niamey Conference: Hostilities in Africa, Round Three -- 16. First Steps toward Normalization: Mitchell Sharp Visits Paris -- 17. Renewal of the Franco-Canadian Cultural Agreement and the Quebec Election -- 18. A New Ambassador - The October Crisis - The End of an Era -- 19. Normalization: Bourassa Visits Paris, Schumann Comes to Ottawa -- 20. Canada and the European Community: A Canadian Prime Minister Returns to Paris.

Sommario/riassunto

Direct Intervention recounts the political and diplomatic relationship



between Canada and France at a critical juncture in Canada's history. As a Minister in the Canadian Embassy in Paris, Eldon Black witnessed a range of fateful events - from visits (successful and unsuccessful) of ministers and prime ministers between Ottawa, Quebec City and Paris, to meetings at the Elysée palace, and exchanges of a myriad of telegrams, notes and other diplomatic correspondence. This well-researched account of French interference in Canadian constitutional and federal-provincial affairs includes criticism of Quebec's involvement, and of how Embassy staff in Paris and the Canadian government in Ottawa strove to control and normalize relations among the contending parties. Central to the national unity debate of the day, the ensuing diplomatic wrangles and political conflicts have a curiously contemporary ring, even reverberating into Canada's future.