Volume 17 contains speeches and press releases covering October 1973 to May 1974. The subjects covered in this volume are: Alberta; Andras, R.; Atlantic provinces; Balfour, Jim; Basford, Ron; biculturalism; bilingualism; Blakeney, A.; Bodin, Mr; Bourassa, R.; Britain; British petroleum; budgets; business (big/small); "Buying back Canada"; Cabinet; Calgary Herald; Canada Savings Bonds; Canadian (Chamber of Commerce, Council on Social Development, enterprises, Investment Incentive Credit, Manufacturers Association, National Railway, producers); Canadians; candidates; Cape Breton; Cape Breton Development Corp.; Capital Gains Tax; caucus; clothing costs; coal gasification; coal industry; competition policy; Confederation; conflict of interest; Consumer Price Index; cost of living; Council of Maritime Premiers; Davis, W.; delegates; democracy; democrats; deposit accounts; depression; Deux Nations; Diefenbaker, Rt. Hon. J.G.; Diefenbaker government; Drury guidelines; Eastern provinces; economic (environment, growth, policies, strategy, stabilization plan); economists; the economy; Ecuador; education; Egypt; elections (general); electricity; employment; energy (conservation, crisis, nuclear, policy, resources); Continental Energy Policy; Federal-Provincial Energy Conference; National Energy (Board, Corporation, policy); equalization; Europe; External Affairs; farming; Federal-Provincial (relations, Conference); Federalism; federalist; Finance Minister; fiscal and monetary policies; fisheries; Flynn, Senator Jacques; food/prices; foreign investment/policy; France; Fundy tides; Gallup Poll; gasoline; Gaspé; Gillespie, A.; goods and services; government (industrial policies, loans, majority, spending, 19th century thinking); grassroots; Gross National Product; Hamilton, Hon. Alvin; heavy water plant; housing; low-income Canadians; income policy; industrial strategy; industry; inflation; inflation flexible control, short-term freeze; interest rates; International Monetary Fund; Israel; Japan; Keynes, Lord; labour; Lalonde, Marc; leadership; Lewis, David; Liberal Convention 1973; Liberal Party; Lortie, Jean-Yves; Lougheed, P.; Macdonald, Donald; Manitoba; Manning, Mr; Manpower; manufacturing; mass media; Middle East; miners; mining; minority government; monetary and fiscal policies; national (development strategy, economic stability); Native people; natural resources; NDP; Newfoundland; news media; non-chequing savings; non-confidence motions; Nova Scotia; offshore mineral rights; oil (Alberta, B.A., B.P., Canadian/Crown-owned companies, conservation, continental policy, crude, deposits, embargo, export tax, Exxon, prices, gas tax, Gulf, home heating, Imperial, imports, petroleum, policies, prices, profits, royalty regulations, sands, Shell; shortage, supplies, transmission systems, undersea exploration); old age pensions; Ontario; O.E.C.D.; Palestine; Panarctic; Parliament; Parti Quebecois; Party rift; Pearson, Rt. Hon. L.B.; petro-chemicals; pipelines; polarization; pollution; Post Office; poverty; prices; price and income controls; Prince Edward Island; "Priorities for Canada"; private and public investment; Progressive Conservative Party (policy, Policy Conference, Co-ordinating Committee); Public Service; Quebec (election 1973, media, separatism); quid pro quo; railway labour dispute; regional development/disparity; Dept of Regional and Economic Expansion; Republicans; undersea resources; Robarts, John; Saskatchewan; savings; Shaheen's Refinery; sovereign states; "Special status"; steel industry; stock exchange; Symons, T.H.B.; Syria; tax (credits, cuts, income, increase, indexing, gasoline, payer, policy, reform, revenue, sales, on clothing, on building materials, 11 percent, siphon, structure, system); taxation (middle income, Royal Commission 1962); thermal power; tidal power; trade; transportation; treasury; Trudeau, P.E.; Turner, J.; unemployment/insurance; Union nationale; United Nations; United States; U.S. trade, tariffs; uranium; wage and price controls; wage earners; wages; Wagner, Claude; welfare system; Western alienation; western provinces/Conference; wheat; Whiteway, Dean.
