This work deals with the relationship between the Canadian Federal Government and the Government of Quebec from January 1967 - February 1968. It treats both governments as members of a dyad but differs from other studies of dyadic conflict in a number of important ways. Whereas other investigations have examined the dyadic behavior of sovereign states, this work explores the relationship between a federal and a provincial government within an ethnically-divided federation. In so doing, concepts and methods normally reserved to the field of international relations are applied to this particular type of domestic conflict. Second, rather than examining only the behavior of the dyadic opponents, the publicly-stated goals of key members of the participating governments are also analyzed to determine whether or not they are related to subsequent patterns of conflictual and cooperative behavior. Finally, the role of a third party to the conflict (France) is introduced and its impact on the conflictual behavior of Ottawa and Quebec is evaluated. This study also offers a detailed analysis of the issues that surfaced in the period under study.

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