With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

St-Laurent worked as a lawyer from 1905 to 1941, also becoming a professor of law at Université Laval in 1914.

St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee's proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white dominions into a multi-racial partnership.

St-Laurent was the first Prime Minister to live in the present official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada: 24 Sussex Drive, from 1951 to the end of his term in office.

Louis Stephen St-Laurent died from natural causes on 25 July 1973, in Quebec City, Quebec, aged 91, and was laid to rest at St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery in his hometown of Compton, Quebec.

He was mayor of St-Laurent from 1905 to 1909, and Quebec Conservative Party leader from 1915 to 1916.

He retired from provincial politics in 1950 and was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 24 January 1951 on the recommendation of Louis St-Laurent.

* Website with many photos of French Guiana, including the St-Laurent region.

In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

In 1956, this idea was actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Suez Crisis.

In this role, St-Laurent represented Canada at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and San Francisco Conference that led to the founding of the United Nations ( UN ).

The Parliament of England had its roots in the restrictions on the power of kings written into Magna Carta, which explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered – and implicitly supported what became English writ of habeas corpus, safeguarding individual freedom against unlawful imprisonment with right to appeal.

Abandoning the Tories, James looked to form a ' King's party ' as a counterweight to the Anglican Tories, so in 1687 James supported the policy of religious toleration and issued the Declaration of Indulgence.

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

Fox's supporters, however, certainly saw themselves as legitimate heirs of the Whig tradition, and they strongly opposed Pitt in his early years in office, notably during the regency crisis revolving around the King's temporary insanity in 1788 – 1789, when Fox and his allies supported full powers for their ally, the Prince of Wales, as regent.

John was left isolated ( even the Black Prince supported the need for reform ) and the Commons refused to grant money for the war unless most of the great officers of state were dismissed, and the King's mistress Alice Perrers, another focus of popular resentment, was barred from any further association with him.

The depressed arch supported by fan Vault ( architecture ) | vaulting at King's College Chapel, England.

When his father was made a prisoner within the jurisdiction of the King's Bench, presumably for bankruptcy or debt, young John supported the family and used some of the money he earned to buy two lottery tickets, which won him a minor prize.

Buildings which supported the common land were the King's Head pub, a blacksmith's forge, and several cottages.

In his official orders Vergennes was ordered not to agree any treaty, but he received secret instructions from the King to agree a treaty if it supported the King's schemes in Eastern Europe.

The United States Secretary of State, Christian Herter, made it clear that the United States supported the “ legitimate government under the King's direction .” The United States supported the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Tiao Samsanith.

At the beginning of the King's reign, Lancaster openly supported Edward, but as the conflict between the king and the nobles wore on, Lancaster's allegiances changed.

Hepburn supported Mackenzie King's opponent, the arch-Conservative Arthur Meighen, in a by-election in Toronto in 1942 ; ( this, notwithstanding Hepburn's later alliance with the Communist Party of Canada ).

Many Canadians supported Mackenzie King's pledge, even as it became obvious the war would not be quickly resolved.

Ivins supported affirmative action and denounced President Bush for announcing his opposition to the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan on Martin Luther King's birthday.

Ralston supported conscription for overseas service during World War II, and in 1942 offered to resign when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's government would not introduce it.

The first, in 1971, was coup d ' état attempt allegedly supported by Libya, organized by General Madbouh and Colonel Ababou and carried out by cadets during a function at the King's summer palace in Rabat during his forty-second birthday party.

Heavily supported by African funds, new schools were soon turning out graduating classes at Mengo High School, St. Mary's Kisubi, Namilyango, Gayaza, and King's College Budo — all in Buganda.

Loudoun was among the noblemen who supported the protests against the King's attempts to introduce innovations into the Scottish church and at his interference in the traditions of the Scottish nobility.

Accounts from Hingham's earliest years indicate some friction between the disparate groups, culminating in an 1645 episode involving the town's " trainband ", when some Hingham settlers supported Eames, and others supported Bozoan Allen, a prominent early Hingham settler and Hobart ally who came from King's Lynn in Norfolk, East Anglia.

The Whig factions became, in effect, distinct parties ( such as the Grenvillites and the Bedfordites ), all of whom claimed the Whig mantle, while the material distinction in politics was between the ' King's Friends ' who supported the newly activist role of George III in government, and those who opposed the king.

Fernando ( supported by the King's cousin, the Infante Diogo, Duke of Viseu ) protested and conspired with Isabella I of Castile, which resulted in his being accused of treason by King John II, when the Duke's correspondence was intercepted by the King's spies.

When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

The use of Bayesian probabilities as the basis of Bayesian inference has been supported by several arguments, such as the Cox axioms, the Dutch book argument, arguments based on decision theory and de Finetti's theorem.

Work on expert systems ( computer software designed to provide an answer to a problem, or clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted ) typically is grounded on the premise that expertise is based on acquired repertoires of rules and frameworks for decision making which can be elicited as the basis for computer supported judgment and decision-making.

Countering this, a few professionals including Michael Winner and Julian Fellowes supported the Government's decision.

In the postwar period, these men have supported, with some ambivalence, the strengthening of popular participation in decision making as provided for in the constitution.

Beria's decision to avoid immediately calling a doctor was silently supported ( or at least not opposed ) by the rest of the Politburo, which was rudderless without Stalin's micromanagement and paralyzed by a legitimate fear he would suddenly recover and wreak violent reprisal on anyone who had dared to act without his orders.

In December 2011, Fraser was highly critical of the Australian government's decision ( also supported by the Liberal Party Opposition ) to permit the export of uranium to India, relaxing the Fraser government's policy of banning sales of uranium to countries that are not signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Court intrigues, however, including Nur Jahan's decision to have her daughter from her first marriage wed Shah Jahan's youngest brother Shahzada Shahryar and her support for his claim to the throne led Khurram, supported by Muhabbat Khan, into open revolt against his father in 1622.

With the advent of the. NET framework, the scripting team took the decision to implement future support for VBScript within ASP. NET for web development, and therefore no new versions of the VBScript engine would be developed and it moved over to being supported by Microsoft's Sustaining Engineering Team, who are responsible for bug fixes and security enhancements.

Writer Peter David's decision to explicitly establish male characters Shatterstar and Rictor entering a romantic relationship in X-Factor # 45 ( August 2009 ) — confirming clues that had been established in X-Force years earlier — drew criticism from Shatterstar's co-creator, Rob Liefeld, though Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada supported David's story.

Arafat's decision also severed relations with Egypt and many of the oil-producing Arab states that supported the US-led coalition.

Lessig expressed surprise that no decision was authored by Chief Justice Rehnquist or by any of the other four justices who supported the Lopez or Morrison decisions.

Marshall and Stimson not only supported Eisenhower's decision, but defended it.

He supported the re-design of army command, the creation of the Territorial Army, and the decision to provide an Expeditionary Force supporting France in the event of war with Germany.

Edward and Mrs Simpson married and became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but while Edward was a Royal Highness, George VI withheld the style from the Duchess, a decision that Elizabeth supported.

He refused to return to the hospital, and his family supported his decision.

With the Western throne vacant, Gaiseric supported Olybrius for the purple ; the reason for this decision was that Gaiseric's son Huneric and Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III ( Petronius ' son, Palladius, had been killed during the sack of Rome ), and therefore, with Olybrius on the throne, Gaiseric could exert great influence on the Western Empire.

On the outbreak of World War II Patel supported Nehru's decision to withdraw the Congress from central and provincial legislatures, contrary to Gandhi's advice, as well as an initiative by senior leader Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari to offer Congress's full support to Britain if it promised Indian independence at the end of the war and install a democratic government right away.

In the United States, for example, if a Social Security Disability Insurance claimant is found " not disabled " ( and, therefore, ineligible for benefits ) by an Administrative Law Judge ( ALJ ) and the claimant appeals, both the Appeals Council ( the body within the Social Security Administration that hears appeals from decisions of ALJs ) and the Federal courts ( which, in this type of case, will normally hear an appeal only after the claimant has exhausted all administrative remedies ) will look to see whether the administrative law judge's decision was supported by " substantial evidence " or not.

John Howard was reported to have been " embarrassed " by having publicly supported Kennett before his decision not to re-enter politics.

Among other things, he supported the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, because it was in line with the UN Security Council's decision and because only military centers were to be targeted.

While the count of Alife lacked decision, Roger, now supported by Benevento, destroyed all the rebels ' castles in the region, capturing an immense booty.

The only two people who supported Uthman's decision were Saadi, one of his maternal aunts, and Umm Kulthum, who was his stepsister and who had also converted to Islam.

This decision, supported by the Netherlands Olympic Committee, was announced by the International Olympic Committee on June 2, 1921.