Direct intervention : Canada-France relations 1967-1974 / Eldon Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Eldon, 1925-

Series:

Carleton library series ; 187.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Foreign relations--France.

Canada.

France--Foreign relations--Canada.

France.

Canada--Foreign relations--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa] : Carleton University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-53027-9

9786613842725

0-7735-8092-1

OCLC:

767671715