This sub-series consists of operational files of the following exempt staff members: Hugh Hanson, Executive Assistant; Peter Harder, Special Assistant and Susan Dunn, Assistant, Kingston Area.
Part 1: Hugh Hanson, executive assistant. The record types are: incoming-outgoing correspondence; telegrams; summary of correspondence; Internal External Affairs messages; notes and memoranda between exempt staff; agendas and summaries of Executive Assistant meetings; minister's schedule; departmental communiqués; minister's briefing memoranda to Prime Minister Joe Clark; briefings of Minister's meetings; briefing on upcoming visits of foreign dignitaries; summaries of telegrams; and clippings.
The issues documented are, reactions to Flora MacDonald's speeches; events attended by Minister; aboriginal issues; native land claims; comments sought by fellow Cabinet ministers on Policy directions; Federal-Provincial relations; racism; multiculturalism; Committee on Cabinet issues; United Nations; immigration; refugees; human rights; cabinet ministers seeking Flora MacDonald's support for their portfolio projects; energy policy; Petro Can; Canadian sales to Argentina; Soviet espionage; and the World Food Bank. Subject files: Indigenous peoples, 1979; Prison, 1979-1980; and World Council of Indigenous People, (WCIP).
Part 2: Peter Harder, Special Assistant: Incoming-outgoing correspondence addressed to the Minister and Peter Harder; Working Notes; Memoranda between exempt staff; Minister's schedule, appointments and meetings; Briefing memoranda; Minister's briefing memoranda to Prime Minister Joe Clark; Minister's speeches and statements; Diary of Minister's outgoing correspondence; Clippings; Clippings from Japanese-English newspapers; Booklets, Foreign Review Discussion Papers, 1980.
Operational files -- Government Departments and organizations: Transport: Urban transportation development, CRTC; Health and Welfare: Disability Pension; Solicitor General: Human rights; Energy Mines and Resources; Petro Can; Employment and Immigration: Landed immigrant status, immigration application; State for Small Businesses: Capital Gains Tax; External Affairs: United Nations; Human Rights Commission; Telegram Summaries; Canadian International Development Agency: Visit to Cameron; Nanaimo International Development Education Association (NIDEA); Industry Trade and Commerce: Price of Oil; Environment: Pollution; Finance: Speech of Finance Minister John Crosbie, July 16, 1979; Justice and Attorney General: War crimes; Government House, Governor General; Nomination of individuals to the Order of Canada; Regional Economic Expansion; Eastern Ontario Subsidiary Agreement; Secretary of State: Policy discussions; Economic Development: Committee of Economic Development; Multiculturalism; and Terms of reference.
Subject files: Canada-Israel Committee; Status of Women; Native Council of Canada; DuPont Canada, Inc.; Canadian Jewish Congress; Instruction from the Prime Minister with Reference to Cabinet Committees; Privy Council; United Nations; Proposed Canadian Embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; Refugees, Indonesia situation; Visit to London, England of Indian Chiefs and Elders; Nicaragua; Mackenzie Valley Natural Gas Pipeline; Petro Can; Tokyo Summit, June 28-29, 1979; House of Commons debates; Garrison Diversion Project; Invitations confirmed; Kingston media; Correspondence; Bills, Status of legislation; Commonwealth Heads Government Meeting, August 1979; Schedules and itineraries; Minister's speeches; Nuclear trade with Argentina; Nuclear safeguard; Kampuchea; International Development Research Centre; United Nation Conference on Science and Technology for Development, Vienna, Austria, August 20-31; Treasury Board Main estimate, 1979-1980; United Nations General Assembly, September 1979; and Tokyo Summit, Flora MacDonald's personal notes.
Among these files is a file entitled: House of Commons, Questions and Supplementaries. In this files are 34 answers given by Flora MacDonald as Secretary of State for External Affairs, during House of Commons, Oral question periods, October-November 1979.
Some of the answers cover to the following issues: Location of the Canadian Embassy in Israel: Canadians held in Mexican jails without being charged; meeting of Robert L. Stanfield with PLO; Aid to Kampuchea; policy concerning offshore resources; Foothill's route - Consultation with the US; effects on Canadian economy of possible move of Embassy in the Middle East; Minister's intervention in cases of Foreign Dissidents; proposed US Nuclear Power plant near the B.C. border; foreign aid expenditure for the coming year; Canada's joining in the Organization of American States; steps to insure protection of Canadians in Iran; Mississauga disaster; Rerouting of Iranian plans to Canadian airports; imprisonment of Mayor of Naplouse, Israel, Mr. Basson Chaka; stringent international safeguards for nuclear plants; recognition of Zimbabwe, Rhodesia; situation of Canadians in Iran; aid in construction of Frazer Fish Plant in Senegal; request that Canada join OECD sub-committee on Marine construction; protection of Human Rights and Privileges of Canadian Staff overseas; inquiry why Minister does not recall immediately Canadian Diplomatic Staff in Teheran; aid for the starving in Cambodia; need for industrialized countries to make Common Declaration of Condemnation; ownership of George Banks-Leases for offshore drilling; plights of Christians jailed in South Korea; and deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.
Part 3 - Susan Dunn, Assistant, Kingston area. The series consist of files documenting activities in the Kingston area. The files are arranged in alphabetical order.
The record types are: Briefing memoranda; appointment submissions and confirmations; Kingston activities daily briefings; and case summaries and follow ups to Minister and exempt staff.
Issued documented are: Federal grants in Kingston and the Islands; research grants to Queen's University; Kingston public meetings; penitentiary issues; methods of destructions of PCB's; Canada Work Project; radio coverage of prison health centre announcement; Professor Ron Mung, Kingston NDP candidate for 1979 provincial elections; and National Defence College Field Study.
