Volume 18 contains speeches and press releases covering May to December 1974. The subjects covered in this volume are: agriculture; Alberta; Armed Forces; Atlantic provinces; Auditor General; balanced budget; Bank of Canada; bilingualism and biculturalism; Bourassa, R.; British Columbia; Buchanan, John; budgets; by-elections; Cabinet; Canada Savings Bonds; Canada-US relations; Canadian (Broadcasting Corporation, Investment Incentive Credit, National Railway, sovereignty); Canadians; candidates; Cape Breton; caucus; centralization; civil servants; Coates, R.; collective bargaining; competition policy; Confederation; Conservatives; Constitution; Consumer Price Index; contingency plans; corporate income; cost of living; Council of Maritime Premiers; Cross, James; CTV; Davey, Keith; Davis, W.; democracy; depression; Desbarats, Peter; Deux Nations; Diefenbaker, Rt. Hon. J.G.; "Directions for the future"; dollar; Douglas, Tommy (MP); economic development/growth; the economy; elections (general); election promises; employees; employment; energy; energy resources; National Energy Board; estimates; Europe; External Affairs; famine; farming; federal deficit; Federal-Provincial Conference/relations; Federalism, Fisheries, Minister of; fishermen; fishing industry; fixed incomes; food/prices; Ford, President G.; Forrestall, Mike; France; Galbraith, John Kenneth; Gallup Poll; Germany, West; Gillies, J.; government (consultants, spending); Grafftey, Heward; Guaranteed Income Supplement; Hart, G. Arnold; Hatfield, Richard; Henderson, M.; Horner, Jack; housing; Howie, B.; Hutchison, Bruce; immigration; Income Stabilization Plan; inflation; interest rates; international trade; Jamieson, Hon. D.; journalists; King, W.L. Mackenzie; labour; Lalonde, Marc; Laporte, Pierre; Lasalle, Roch; Laurier, Sir Wilfrid; leadership; Lewis, David; Liberal Party/platform/seats; Local Initiatives Program; Lougheed, P.; lumber industry; Macdonald, Donald; Macdonald, Sir John A.; MacEachen, A.; MacInnis, D.; Mackasey, Hon. Bryce; marine facilities; McCleave, Bob; "MPs are Nobodies"; Middle East; Moores, Frank; Muir, B.; Munro, J.; national (economic stability, identity, unity); "National purpose"; Native people; natural resources; New Brunswick; NDP; Newfoundland; news media; Nova Scotia; offshore mineral resources/rights; oil (exports, prices, policies, supplies); old age pensioners; Ontario; O.E.C.D.; Parliament; Pearson, Rt. Hon. L.B.; pipelines; Pitt, William; prices; price and income controls; Prices and Incomes Commission; Prince Edward Island; Private Member's Bill; P.C. Party (candidates, Youth Federation); provincial government; provincial premiers; public accounts; Public Service; Quebec; Question Period; recession; Regan, Gerry; regional development/disparity; resource revenue; Richardson, James; royalties; St Laurent; Saskatchewan; small businesses; Smith, I.J.; social justice; Statistics Canada; steel industry; tax (cuts, income, increase, laws, payer, policy, sharing, on clothing, 11 percent); taxation (low income, Royal Commission 1962); Theriault, Paul; Throne Speech; Time magazine; Toronto Globe and Mail; transportation; treasury; Trudeau, Pierre Elliott; Trudeau-Lewis alliance; Turner, J.; unemployment; Unemployment Insurance; United Nations; United States; United States economy/inflation; Viet Nam; voters; wage and price controls; wage earners; wages; Wagner, Claude; War Measures Act; Washington; Watergate; Western alienation; western Canada; Wickson, Malcolm.
