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Solicitor General - Transcripts of interviews and speeches [textual record]

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Date:

1969-1984.

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R15773-15-6-E

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4932933

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Robert (Bob) Kaplan fonds

Solicitor General - Transcripts of interviews and speeches
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1969-1984.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.66 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of transcripts of interviews of Kaplan by various radio hosts, verbatim speeches and Q&A sessions, and formal speech notes.
There are interviews with Barbara Frum, Mike Duffy and both Don Heron and Peter Gzowski of Morningside. Many interviews were in studios of both CBC and CTV and their local affiliates, but there were occasional interviews with independent radio stations. The primary topics of discussion were: the McDonald Commission of Inquiry, the Young Offenders Act, the Olson case, the RCMP and Security Service and Roy McMurtry's concerns with the federal government's Security Service directions. As well as Toronto and Ottawa, interviews occurred on both Canada's East Coast and West Coast, when Kaplan was there for the opening of a correctional facility centre or on some other government business. The series also includes verbatim speeches and House Questions & Answers. Though there are some interviews pre-1980, the vast majority reflect his years as Solicitor-General.
A number of files reveal Kaplan's speaking agenda, whom he addressed and when. Speeches covering 1977-1979, when Kaplan was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and chaired the House Finance Committee, deal largely with the government's economic policies (the Liberals' wage and-price controls program, "6 &5", the promotion of small business and Canadian industrial competitiveness). Following the 1970s speeches are files containing Kaplan's own informational releases. Finally come the speeches as Solicitor-General, which address largely C.S.I.S. and criminal law reform.

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The transcripts were kept as a distinct group by Kaplan's office staff. When found, orphaned records of this sort were integrated into this main body. Some of the speeches were in clusters, and have been grouped. Others are distributed throughout the fonds, remaining in place in files where there was other correspondence or notes surrounding them.

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Volume [R15773] 38--41

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