Ce secrétariat était lié au premier ministre et à l'un de nos ministres les plus forts. Il est rapidement devenu un organisme horizontal absolument essentiel à la réponse du gouvernement du Canada devant la série d'événements marquant les relations fédérales-provinciales, dont l'élection de M. Lévesque en 1976.
That secretariat had links both to the Prime Minister and one of our strongest ministers and quickly became a horizontal agency that was absolutely critical to the Government of Canada's response to a series of events in federal-provincial relations, not the least of which was the election of Mr. Levesque in 1976.
