The National Indian Council was dissolved. The Canadian Métis Society (which became the Native Council of Canada in 1970) was formed; it represented Métis and nonstatus Indians. The National Indian Brotherhood was formed to represent the Assembly of First Nations, or status Indians.
The former African French colony of Gabon invited the Quebec minister of education to attend a conference and treated him as representative of a sovereign state. The Canadian government broke off relations with Gabon and blamed France for using Gabon as a front.
Further conferences on constitutional questions were attended by premiers of all ten provinces. They discussed linguistic rights for French-speaking minorities outside Quebec Province.
The Broadcasting Act of 1968 replaced the Canadian Radio-Television Commission(CRTC); the new body emphasized the ownership and control of media by Canadians.
