Cabinet Leaks Reveal Shifts in Trudeau Priorities
A confidential nine point cabinet priorities list shows the government moving focus to regional development and welfare reforms while delaying environmental and foreign investment measures. The May 15 to May 17 document details urban living standards, spending restraint, and federal-provincial coordination as top items, with environmental and economic nationalism at lower priority.
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Southam News
Ottawa
Trudeau
Canada
Marc Lalonde
Don Jamieson
Lalonde
Cabinet Committee On
Department of Regional Economic Expansion
Department of Health and Welfare
Treasury Board
DREE
Jamieson
R.F. Charron
D.J. Leach
Leach
Oil pressure mounts as NDP urges export limits in Commons
In Ottawa energy minister Donald Macdonald warned that controls on gasoline exports are possible if supply to Canada is threatened. NDP MP TC Douglas cited dwindling domestic supplies with retailers closing stations and expansion being canceled. He noted 4.1 million gallons of Ontario exports in April, 11 times last year.
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Ottawa
Donald Macdonald
United States
T.C. Douglas
Nanaimo
Cowichan
the Islands
Canada
Douglas
Ontario
Macdonald
National Energy Board
ICCS nations halt regular meetings amid deadlock in Vietnam issue
The four nation ICCS suspends all regular chiefs of delegation meetings over reports accusing North Vietnamese infiltration in South Vietnam. Canada will chair ad hoc talks in June but no new meetings until the deadlock over the Paris accord reports is resolved.
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Saigon
International Commission of Control and Supervision
ICCS
Gauvin
Canada
Hungary
Indonesia
Poland
South Vietnam
Joint
Commission
Zambia says sentry feared sabotage at Victoria Falls power station
The Zambian government told the United Nations a lone army sentry shot and killed two Canadians and wounded an American on May 15 while they swam in Zambian waters near the Victoria Falls power station. The communique blamed Rhodesia for negligence and dangerous provocation tied to a suspected sabotage mission, citing tense cross border relations and prior incidents.
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United Nations
Zambia
Victoria Falls
Paul J. F. Lusaka
Canada
Ottawa
Mitchell Sharp
Commons
E. H. K. Mudenda
Rhodesia
Sharp
A. M. Leith
Zambezi River
Christine Sinclair
Guelph
Ont
Marian Drijber
Rockwood
Zambesi
Office workers end glass plant strike at Dominion Glass
Dominion Glass Plant in Redcliff ends a strike by 17 office workers after reaching a two year contract from May 1, 1973 to May 1, 1975 with 10 percent wage rise first year and 9 percent second year. Wages range 440 to 795 monthly first year and 479 to 860 second year. 300 other plant workers had refused to cross the picket line.
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Dominion Glass
Redcliff
United Glass and Ceramics Workers Union
International Union
Lew Toole
Toole
Local 234
Grant Congdon
U.S. faces Arctic oil shortfall delaying Arctic supplies
Senate witnesses warned that Canada may not provide expected Arctic oil as production in prairie provinces declines Canada has growing domestic needs and the United States must increasingly rely on Persian Gulf producers over the next decade while pursuing domestic resources and alternatives. David Freeman urged negotiating a Canada to U.S. oil corridor to unlock northern oil potential and deepen energy ties. Freeman urged government‑to‑government talks with Canada on oil gas uranium and related matters. Fulbright praised Freeman proposal and noted U.S. refinery construction slowdown requiring new builds.
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Washington
State Department
United States
U.S
Canadian Arctic
James E. Atkins
Office of Fuels and Energy
Canada
Persian Gulf
Venezuela
Alaska Pipeline
David Freeman
Ford Foundation
Alaska
North Slope
Freeman
Fulbright
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West
Calgary
Alta
James Ferrabee
Don Sella
Vancouver
Art Phillips
Victoria
Alastair Gillespie
Paul Hellyer
Toronto Trinity
Peter Flanigan
President’s Council On International
Gillespie
Paul Yevchuk
Michel Gauvin
JMC
Ferenc Esztergalyos
Oe Cauonew
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