The sub-series document Flora MacDonald's activities as a member of the Loyal Opposition and as Chair or member of the following Parliamentary and Caucus Committees. Chairperson of the Social Development Policy Committee and Science and Technology Committee; PC Caucus Chairperson of Social Policy Committee which encompasses Women's Issues, Pensions, Youth, Employment, Immigration, Health and Welfare, Environment, and Veterans Affairs; Caucus Committee and Spokesperson on the Status of Women; Caucus Committee on Foreign and Defence Policy; Chairperson of the Caucus Committee on External Affairs, National Defence; Member of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Social Affairs; Member of the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs; Member Standing Committee on Labour, Manpower, and Immigration; Member of the Sub-Committee on the Study of Violence in the Family; Member of the Sub-Committee of the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence on Canada's Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
The record types are: Clippings; incoming and outgoing correspondence; personal work notes; staff's work notes; notes of attended meetings; briefing memoranda; studies produced by the Library of Parliament; transcripts of television and radio programs; speeches of Federal Liberal Cabinet Ministers; memoranda between the Research Office and the Flora MacDonald's staff; telegrams; PMO communiques; published reports; Government Inquiry Public Hearings Transcript; draft of work documents; draft of Bills; Policy Handbook for the 1982 August By-Elections; PC Caucus status report; new releases; department communiques and news releases; Questions asked by MacDonald during the House of Commons question period; reports prepared by private organizations; transcript of Prime Minister's news releases; information kits; excerpts of Hansards; summaries of government activities; committee and sub-committee notes; discussion papers; MacDonald's speeches, 1984; MacDonald's notes taken during open line radio shows; MacDonald's personal notes taken during visits to Foreign countries: Parliamentary reports, 1981-1988.
The issues documented are: Acid rain; Anti-Dumping Tribunal; Arab-Israel conflict; Argentina and Candu reactors; Atomic Energy of Canada; Auto Pact; Bill C-9, Security Intelligence Service; Bill C- 10, Divorce Act; Bill C-141, Amendments to Human Rights Act; Bishops statement, 1983; Canadian Pension Plan; Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association; Bill C-34, Canada Labour Code; Canadian Shipping Act; Canadian-US Relation Policy; Canadian Defence Policy; Canadian Immigration Policy; Canadian Nuclear Energy Policy; Canadian participation in Uranium Cartel; Canadian Peace-Keeping Force; Canadian position on Poland; Candu reactors; Capital punishment debates; CF-18 Hornet project; Chrysler Canada Ltd.; Canadian International development Agency; Joe Clark leadership and government records; Commission of Official Records; Commonwealth Study Conference; Cruise missile government policy; Day care; Disarmament; Du Pont of Canada; East Coast fisheries; Elizabeth Fry Society; El Salvador, Canadian policy; Global Energy situation; New Canadian Health Act; human rights, Argentina, Soviet Unions; Canadian participation in the Iran hostage situation; Kingston: Media, Nuclear Free Zone, prison for women, community development projects; Middle East peace initiatives; native fishing agreement; Ontario; and NATO.
NORAD; North-South issues; Canadian nuclear exports; penitentiaries; pensions; Poland; prison chaplains; Social Development Committee; Somalia; South Africa; Standing Committee and External Affairs and National Defence, Minutes of proceedings and evidence of, June 10, 1980; Sub-Committee on Canada's relations with Latin America and the Caribbean; Sub-Committee on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; United Nations Committee on Disarmament; Whig Standard; Kingston; World Health Organization; Youth Offenders Act; Flora MacDonald's private member bills; issues pertaining to government departments; cancellations of university tuition for inmates; Sub-Committee on Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean; NOMOS Project, Sept. 2-9, 1985; Human Rights, East Timor, Cyprus, South America, USSR, Pakistan, Baltic States -- Andrei Sakharov; Anatoly Shcharansky; Progressive Party - National Leadership Convention, 1984; Leadership races, 1978-1982; 1984 election candidates; leadership campaign, 1983; 1984 election; penitentiary violence; media interviews with Flora MacDonald; Kingston, 1980 election schedule; 1984 election campaign; Flora MacDonald's House of Commons Attendance record, 1979-1983; Progressive Conservative Association of Kingston and the Islands.