No Mention Of Queen
(N Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) OTTAWA, Sept. 13. For the first time in living memory, the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Canadian Parliament yesterday contained no reference to the Queen or to the Commonwealth. The Governor-General (Mr Roland Michener) said the Canadian Government found the world situation “uncertain and deeply disturbing.” He referred to the deadlocked Paris talks on Vietnam, the civil war in Nigeria, and said the Czechoslovak crisis had caused the “gravest concern.” The Soviet occupation there had affected future evolution within the Communist bloc and the prospects of an East West detente. The speech made it clear that the early months of the session would be devoted to clearing away a substantial backlog of legislation from the last Parliament Only then would members come to grips with “justsociety measures” which the Prime Minister (Mr Trudeau) says he has in mind regarding poverty, urban growth, and economic disparties between th? various regions of Canada.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31785, 16 September 1968, Page 8
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