Editing Expo 67 (section)

===Expo's lasting effects===
In a political and cultural context, Expo 67 was seen as a landmark moment in Canadian history.<ref name="40th anniversary">{{cite news |author=TU THANH HA |title=Expo 67 Saw 'The World Coming To Us, In A Joyous Fashion' |date=April 26, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070426.wexpo0427/BNStory/National/home |page=A3 |access-date=August 24, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905132736/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070426.wexpo0427/BNStory/National/home |archive-date=September 5, 2007}}</ref>  In 1968, as a salute to the cultural impact the exhibition had on the city, Montreal's Major League [[baseball]] team, the [[Montreal Expos|Expos]] (now the [[Washington Nationals]]), was named after the event.<ref name="Expo Legacy">{{cite web |title=Legacy |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/expo/05330206_e.html |work=Expo 67 Man and His World |publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]] |access-date=April 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314184654/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/expo/05330206_e.html |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |location=Ottawa |year=2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 1967 was also the year that invited Expo guest [[Charles De Gaulle]], on July 24, addressed thousands at Montreal City Hall by yelling out the now famous words: "Vive Montréal... Vive le Québec... [[Vive le Québec libre speech|Vive le Québec Libre]]!" De Gaulle was rebutted in [[Ottawa]] by Prime Minister [[Lester B. Pearson]]: "Canadians do not need to be liberated, Canada will remain united and will reject any effort to destroy her unity."<ref name="Pearson's Response">{{cite news |last=Pape |first=Gordon |title=De Gaulle Rebuked by Pearson for Pro-Separatist Remarks |url=https://news.google.com/newspapersid=RbEtAAAAIBAJ&dq=pearson%20we%20do%20not%20need%20to%20be%20liberated&pg=7015%2C4602017 |access-date=April 25, 2012 |newspaper=The Gazette |date=July 26, 1967 |location=Montreal |page=1}}</ref> In the years that followed, the tensions between the English- and French-speaking communities would continue.  As an early 21st-century homage to the fair, satirists [[Bowser and Blue]] wrote a full-length musical set at Expo 67 called ''The Paris of America'', which ran for six sold-out weeks at Centaur Theatre in Montreal in April and May 2003.<ref name="Bowser and Blue">{{cite news |last=Nestruck |first=J. Kelly |title=Schwartz's: The Musical: Do You Want It on Rye or with the Singing Pickle? |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=March 29, 2011 |location=Toronto}}</ref>

Expo 67 was one of the most successful World Exhibitions, and is still regarded fondly by Canadians.<ref name="40th anniversary" /> In Montreal, 1967 is often referred to as "the last good year" before economic decline, [[Quebec sovereignism]]  (seen as negative from a federalist viewpoint), deteriorating infrastructure and political apathy became common.<ref>Berton, Book Jacket and pp.358–364</ref> In this way, it has much in common with the 1964–65 [[1964 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]]. In 2007, a new group, [[Expo 17]], was looking to bring a smaller-scale — [[Bureau of International Expositions|BIE sanctioned]] — exposition to Montreal for Expo 67's 50th anniversary and Canada's [[sesquicentennial]] in 2017.<ref name="expo17">{{cite web |title=Expo 17 Proposal |publisher=Expo 17 |date=April 21, 2007 |url=http://www.expo17.ca/english/expo_proposal.pdf |access-date=May 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130142056/http://www.expo17.ca/english/expo_proposal.pdf |archive-date=November 30, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Expo 17 hoped a new world's fair would regenerate the spirit of Canada's landmark centennial project.<ref name="expo17" />