=a ip- as many years and

third as party leader—with the largest number of Commons

Seats, 129 of 265.

A Two weeks later he became Canada’s 13th prime minister, head of a minority government.

At various times, as parlia, Mentary battles raged and the “@econd of two sessions dragged into the longest ever, the prime minister se © be-on the verge "editing an election without waiting for the end of ibe four years. :

-~ There could still be a vote this year, of course, but the specula- tion ‘subsided. somewhat after - Mr. Pearson, in a bantering ex- change. with Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker, broadly hinted he wouldn't call one this #ummer.

. The two” years , have

‘marked by a succession of polit- fea! crises that sometimes obs- cured, in the public's mind, a slowly lengthening record of leg- islative enactments.

GOT NEW FLAG .

A new Canadian flag—a single fed maple -leaf on a white @round with a vertical red bar at each side—replaced the’ red

“~@nsign. The design was picked by .a parliamentary committee which — set - aside the. govern- ‘ment’s proposed three-leaf ban- ner.

A> seemingly ‘interminable Commons debate on the flag was_ended by the imposition of -@losure, a controversial. parlia-

been

mentary device whose use Was /

invited by a member of the op-

—. deputy Conservative Leon Balcer.

_ A contributory pension plan went on the books after nearly two years of negotiation with the Provinces and redrafting by the government.

* A bill allowing provinces to. opt_out of programs in which the cost is shared by the two levels was

position, clearing the way for prorogation of the marathon session.

While these and- other legisla-., tive issues were under discussion in Parliament, a federal: royal | commission was touring the country ee the state of re- atioris tween English and ee h.

The government put new em- phasis on federal-provincial co- Operation by placing many of its legislative plans, including the pension bill, before federal- provincial conferences prior to their introduction in the Com- Mons. :

* Out of one set of negotiations -€ame_a formula for making all changes tothe constitution in Canada. This would turn the ~\ British North America Act—

assed over Conservative ‘ op-

of industry ‘ Council of Canada to

boost employment and produc- |

It. won approval for ‘an arrangement to redistribute par- constituencies by in- . dependent commissions, a $100,- 00,000 Atlantic provinces devel- opment fund, a municipal devel- opment loan fund, reorganization of the military under a single defence staff. ° ; . Old age pensiofis were boosted - $10 a month to $75 during the * 1963 session.

+ given the job of passing on ap- Plications for’ divorce long a , Contentious issue in the Com-

MINISTER ATTACKED Justice Minister Favreau Game under fire in the Com-

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