Changes: Twenty-fifth Grand Council

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The Twenty-fifth Grand Council of the Confederation of North America was elected to a five-year term on 16 February 1963. The partisan makeup of the Twenty-fifth Grand Council was eighty People's Coalition, and seventy Liberal Party.

The Twenty-fifth Grand Council's P.C. majority elected Perry Jay to the office of Governor-General on the first ballot. It is not known who was chosen as Council President or Majority Leader, though it is possible that Grover Speigal was chosen by the Liberals as Minority Leader.

The Twenty-fifth Grand Council was the first in ten years to have a Coalitionist majority, and the party had a number of major policies they wished to see enacted. First and foremost was a crash program to develop an atomic bomb, which former Governor-General Richard Mason had steadfastly refused to allow. While work on the bomb went on, Jay signed an alliance with Great Britain, which had a more advanced bomb program. At the same time, the Coalition cut back on the Mason Doctrine, the massive foreign aid program that the C.N.A. had embarked on after the end of the Global War. By the end of 1966, only African and Latin American nations were receiving aid, and less of it than under the Libeals.

Domestically, Jay focused on two initiatives. The first was decentralizing the National Financial Administration, as a prelude to eliminating it completely by the end of the decade. This required a long, drawn-out fight against the Liberals in the Grand Council. The second was to change the method of choosing the governor-general from selection by the Grand Council to popular vote. The Jay Amendment failed to pass the Grand Council, and represented Jay's only major policy defeat.

On the evening of 1 September 1966 Jay gave a vitavised speech in which he announced a successful atomic bomb test in Manitoba, and that he would be resigning the next day. On the morning of 2 September, the Coalition caucus met and chose Jay's Minister of Finance, Carter Monaghan, to succeed him. Monaghan spent the remainder of Jay's term consolidating control of the Coalition and preparing for the 1968 Grand Council elections.

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 On the evening of 1 September 1966 Jay gave a [[vitavision|vitavised]] speech in which he announced a successful atomic bomb test in [[Manitoba]], and that he would be resigning the next day. On the morning of 2 September, the Coalition caucus met and chose Jay's [[Minister of Finance]], [[Carter Monaghan]], to succeed him. Monaghan spent the remainder of Jay's term consolidating control of the Coalition and preparing for the [[1968 Grand Council elections]].
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