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The unexpected Louis St-Laurent : politics and policies for a modern Canada / edited by Patrice Dutil.

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UBC Press, 2020.

St. Laurent, Louis S. (Louis Stephen), 1882-1973.

Prime ministers -- Canada -- Biography.

Canada -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980.

C.D. Howe series in Canadian political history.

9780774864022 (hc)

xvi, 524 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

St-Laurent in Government : Realism and Idealism in Action / Patrice Dutil -- Grandpapa : A Portrait of the Man and His Family / Jean Thérèse Riley -- The Predominant Prime Minister : St-Laurent and His Cabinet / Stephen Azzi -- Uncle Lou, Both Old and New : The Marketing of St-Laurent / Paul Litt -- St-Laurent and the Age of Bureaucracy / Robert Bothwell -- Thinking Confederation : St-Laurent and the Rowell-Sirois Commission / Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson -- The Liminality of St-Laurent's Intergovernmental Relations Strategy / P.E. Bryden -- St-Laurent : The Last Father of Confederation? / David MacKenzie -- Defence, Development, and the Inuit : St-Laurent's Modern Approach to the North / P. Whitney Lackenbauer -- "But There Is another Source of Liberty and Vitality in Our Country": St-Laurent and Regional Development / Michel S. Beaulieu -- St-Laurent and Modern Provincial Equality / Mary Janigan -- St-Laurent and the Modernization of the State / Luc Juillet and Luc Bernier -- The Cautious Liberal : St-Laurent and National Hospitalization / Greg Marchildon -- St-Laurent, Quebec, and the French Fact : Belonging and Ambivalence / Xavier Gélinas -- The Politics of St-Laurent on the Crown, Rituals, and Symbols / Christopher McCreery -- St-Laurent, Judging, Justice, and the Death Penalty in the Shadow of the Cold War / Philip Girard -- In Search of the St-Laurent Voting Coalition / Patrice Dutil -- Winning Words : Party Platforms in the 1949, 1953, and 1957 Elections / Patrice Dutil and Peter M. Ryan -- "The Greatest Period ... Canada Has Had" : Immigration and the St-Laurent Years / Abril Liberatori -- The Slow Evolution of Indian Policy during the St-Laurent Years / J.R. Miller -- St-Laurent's Gray Lecture and Canadian Citizenship in History / Adam Chapnick -- A Voyage of Discovery : St-Laurent's World Tour of 1954 / Greg Donaghy -- Postscript: Eastern Township Thinking / Hon. Jean Charest.

"Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s 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 and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The contributors to The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent were challenged to assess the personal role of the prime minister in these affairs. To what degree did he set the policy agenda? What was his approach to government structures and the substance of policy? They come to varying conclusions about the features of St-Laurent’s personality that made him effective (or sometimes less so), about the changes he wrought on the apparatus of the state and federal–provincial relations, and about the substance of his government’s policies. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together seasoned professionals and new scholars to investigate the impact of an overlooked figure. Their meticulous work reveals the far-reaching influence of the politician who presided over the last stage of the longest uninterrupted run in power of any Canadian federal party. Scholars, students, and readers of Canadian history, policy, and politics will find this book interesting, and essential."--Publisher.

Dutil, Patrice A., 1960-

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