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Watkins, Mel - Interview

Item number (ISN):

390256

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1978-06-29

Item number (ISN):

390256

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1978-0098

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1978-06-29

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

Interview of Mel Watkins, professor of economics at the University of Toronto, by author Peter Stursberg, about: Watkins' education; his work as head of the Task Force on Foreign Investment; Lester B. Pearson; Walter Gordon; the Task Force on Foreign Investment; its composition; its mandate; Lester B. Pearson's relations with Walter Gordon; the Liberal government circa 1966-1968; Canada-U.S. economic relations; the Report of the Task Force on Foreign Investment (Watkins Report) of 1968; the Canadian dollar circa 1968; the Canadian economy; foreign investment; the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA); the Grey Report; Pierre Elliott Trudeau; Liberal Party leadership contenders in 1968; and Canadian economic nationalism. <50mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Recorded in Toronto for the second volume of Peter Stursberg's book on Lester B. Pearson.~3. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview. However, the transcript indicates an understanding between interviewer and interviewee that tape recordings and transcripts will be opened for research as of the publication of the second volume of Peter Stursberg's book on Lester B. Pearson, entitled Lester Pearson and the American dilemma, published in 1980.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

458914

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01363

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

458915

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01364

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : interviewee restrictions vary : see notes

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