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National Office Correspondence and Subject files
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1970-1981 (Creation)
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- Committee for an Independent Canada
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7 m of textual records
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The Committee for an Independent Canada (CIC) was created in 1970 to further the cause of economic nationalism in Canada. The Committee was the brainchild of former Liberal Finance Minister Walter Gordon, University of Toronto economist Abe Rotstein, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star Peter C. Newman. The CIC endeavored to mobilize a strong show of public support to force the government to take a firm stand against the flow of foreign capital into the Canadian economy. The means to this end was a national petition drive under the direction of Flora MacDonald, who conducted a national tour to establish local chapters to gather signatures. The petition in the spring of 1971 was a major success leading to an audience with Prime Minister Trudeau. The original trio soon expanded and the creation of the Committee was formally announced in September, 1971, with publisher Jack McClelland, and the editor of Le Devoir Claude Ryan as Co-Chairmen. The Committee was solidified as a national organization at their first national conference in Decenber, 1971.By the late spring of 1972 the organization had upwards of thirty-five local chapters.After the creation of the Foreign Investment Review Agency the CIC faced a crisis of the future in terms of direction and finances. Eventually the CIC was unable to sustain itself and after 1975 began to flag. Several attempts were made, unsuccessfully, to revive the organization which finally ceased operation in August 1981.
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The series consists of files that spans the years 1970-1981 and consist of the CIC's national office files during those years.There is
a full run of Executive and Annual General Meeting minutes. The office collection only begins in the spring of 1971 with the succession of Barbara Daprato as Executive Director of the CIC. Prior to that the CIC did not really exist in concrete organizational terms. The files of the Daprato era (1970-1974) consist of .5 metres of Executive Director and Chairmen correspondence and memo files. It is complemented by 1 metre of Toronto National office and correspondence files that involve research, promotion, and membership. In 1974 Daryl Logan became the CIC's Executive Director and the National Office was moved to Ottawa. There are 1.5 metres of Daryl Logan Executive Director files, most of which involve subject correspondence and subject files. The Logan files best document the CIC's fund raising efforts (1972-1977) The Logan files are complemented by .75 metres of Ottawa National Office files that run from 1974 to 1980. The Ottawa Office files contain some .125 metre of general correspondence. Much of the Logan and Ottawa Office files are interrelated with Series III.
Logan left the CIC in the summer of 1977, after which the CIC went through a period of organizational turbulence. During the Logan era a Toronto membership office was maintained by Membership Secretary Muriel Parker. In 1978 the Toronto Membership Office was closed and was merged with the Ottawa National Office. Thus there are 1.5 metres of Toronto Office correspondence, membership, and subject files. After Logan left there was a high turnover of Executive Directors in the Ottawa National Office. There are .5 metres of Executive Director files from 1977 to 1980 during which Nadia McCool, Jeff Logan (acting), James .Conrad, and Denis Conly were all Executive Directors.
Within the rest of Series I are .75 metre files from the CIC's newsletter/magazine the Independencer, which presents an excellent overview of local chapter activity. There are .6 metre of various select committee and task force files. Lastly (1973-1978) there is about one metre of resource material in the way of press releases, policy papers, and news clipping collections.