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...took a beating when he tried to make trouble for Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King by calling an election on the issue of provincial rights in wartime. This time he shrewdly capitalized on Quebec's dislike of war, conscription, beat Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout...
...margin will be slim. The line-up in the Legislative Assembly: Union Nationale, 47; Liberals, 37; Bloc, 4; C.C.F., I; Independent, I; one riding still to vote. Duplessis will probably have to cajole the four Bloc members and the single independent to help him remain in power. Chuckled Premier Godbout: "It won't be long...
...them to hurt. Quebec City's L'Action Catholique, the organ of powerful Cardinal J. M. Rodrigue Villeneuve, called Bouchard a "vile man" and a traitor to his people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth to one-half...
...Premier Godbout flew to Ottawa, talked to Liberal chieftains, as quickly flew back to Quebec City. He summoned his Cabinet, then announced that Bouchard had been fired from a lush job to which Godbout had appointed him only two months ago. The job: the $18,000-a-year chairmanship of Quebec's Hydro Commission, which recently took over one of the biggest private power companies in Canada...
...forbade strikes in the public services. Premier Godbout must admit that the Montreal Tramways strike was a strike...