Sub-series includes original correspondence and copies, policy statements, notes, memoranda, briefing books, speeches, and reports. A wide range of topics is covered. Volumes 1 and 2 contain a block of files with material documenting current events, issues, and policy relating to energy. Volume 2 contains a block of External Affairs files. Volume 3 includes several files on finance and House of Commons business, while Volume 4 contains interesting material on House of Commons questions and answers, comprising briefing information for Mr. Clark to use in Question Period. These files document government policy on issues of the time including the Middle East, foreign aid, human rights, South Africa, the Indian Act, the dissolution of NORAD, and the fisheries.
Of note in Volume 5 is a block of files on government policy relating to various topics including abortion, capital punishment, gun control, national defence, and nuclear energy, while Volume 6 contains a block of memoranda files, most of which date from the period 1979 to 1980. Also of note in this sub-series are the files, "Indian and Northern Affairs" (Vol. 4) which include correspondence and memoranda relating to the control of natural resources, land claims, the Western Arctic, Beaufort Sea development, and opposition to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. The files in this sub-series are organized alphabetically by subject.
Volumes 7-9 contain additional subject files. The records include chronological copies of memoranda and correspondence, June-November 1979, directories, briefing material, additional correspondence and speech material, as well as the staff files of Nancy Jamieson, which include memoranda, briefing material, Q and A's, press releases and other material. The "chrons" files, memoranda files and memoranda and correspondence files in Volumes 7 and 8 are rich in material documenting the actions and problems of the short-lived Clark government. Volumes 10-12 consist of lobbying letters and postcards on a variety of subjects. Most were orchestrated mailings. They came primarily from concerned Canadians, but on the subjects of the seal hunt and whaling, all communications came from outside Canada. Mr. Clark's office did not code, file or answer these communications. Only a selection of the lobbying letters under each subject have been retained by the National Archives.
