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The First Trudeau Regime, 1968–1979

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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Discusses the effect of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on the federation including constitutional battles of the 1970s, the natural resource battle of Ottawa vs. the West, and the rebalancing of powers from 1968-1979.

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Ed Whitcomb

Ed Whitcomb has a Ph.D. in History from the University of London. After a short university teaching career he worked in the Canadian foreign service specializing in political, economic, strategic, and intelligence analysis. He has lived in four regions of Canada as well as in four other countries with federal constitutions. He has published numerous articles on Canadian history, and is the author of a series of ten brief histories of the Canadian provinces.