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    The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent by Dutil, Patrice;

    Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada

    Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History;

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    • Publisher University of British Columbia Press
    • Date of Publication 30 July 2021

    • ISBN 9780774864039
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages540 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 820 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 b&w photos, 20 tables, 9 charts
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    Much of Canada's modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent's Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada's global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure.

    Contributors to The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent assess the degree to which he set the policy agenda. They explore the features of his personality that made him effective (or sometimes less so), the changes he wrought on the state apparatus and federal-provincial relations, and the substance of his government's policies.

    This wide-ranging collection fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together seasoned professionals and new scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of a politician whose astute policies and bold resolve moved Canada into the modern era.

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    Table of Contents:

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    Foreword / Robert Bothwell and John English

    Introduction: Louis St-Laurent's Leadership in History / Patrice Dutil

    Part 1: Style

    1 St-Laurent in Government: Realism and Idealism in Action / Patrice Dutil

    2 Grandpapa: A Portrait of the Man and His Family / Jean Thérèse Riley

    3 The Predominant Prime Minister: St-Laurent and His Cabinet / Stephen Azzi

    4 Uncle Lou, Both Old and New: The Marketing of St-Laurent / Paul Litt

    5 St-Laurent and the Age of Bureaucracy / Robert Bothwell

    Part 2: Structure

    6 Thinking Confederation: St-Laurent and the Rowell-Sirois Commission / Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson

    7 The Liminality of St-Laurent's Intergovernmental Relations Strategy / P.E. Bryden

    8 St-Laurent: The Last Father of Confederation? / David MacKenzie

    9 Defence, Development, and Inuit: St-Laurent's Modern Approach to the North / P. Whitney Lackenbauer

    10 ""But There Is Another Source of Liberty and Vitality in Our Country"": St-Laurent and Regional Development / Michel S. Beaulieu

    11 St-Laurent and Modern Provincial Equality / Mary Janigan

    12 St-Laurent and the Modernization of the State / Luc Juillet and Luc Bernier

    13 The Cautious Liberal: St-Laurent and National Hospitalization / Gregory P. Marchildon

    Part 3: Substance

    14 St-Laurent, Quebec, and the French Fact: Belonging and Ambivalence / Xavier Gélinas

    15 The Politics of St-Laurent on the Crown, Rituals, and Symbols / Christopher McCreery

    16 St-Laurent, Judging, Justice, and the Death Penalty in the Shadow of the Cold War / Philip Girard

    17 In Search of the St-Laurent Voting Coalition / Patrice Dutil

    18 Winning Words: Party Platforms in the 1949, 1953, and 1957 Elections / Patrice Dutil and Peter M. Ryan

    19 ""The Greatest Period ... Canada Has Had"": Immigration and the St-Laurent Years / Abril Liberatori

    20 The Slow Evolution of Indian Policy during the St-Laurent Years / J.R. Miller

    21 St-Laurent's Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History / Adam Chapnick

    22 A Voyage of Discovery: St-Laurent's World Tour of 1954 / Greg Donaghy

    Postscript: Eastern Township Thinking / The Honourable Jean Charest

    Contributors; Index

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