I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

This document laid out a plan to merge the Royal Canadian Navy the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army to form a single service called the Canadian Armed Forces. Pearson Park in St. Early political career

In 1948 Prime Minister Louis St.

In 1967 his government passed Bill C-168 de facto abolishing capital punishment in Canada (by restricting it to a few capital offenses for which it was never used and which themselves were aboliLester B. Pearsond in 1976). During Pearson's time as Prime Minister his minority government introduced universal health care student loans the Canada Pension Plan the Order of Canada and the current Canadian flag.