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...Burns, So., So. Edmonton, Alberta--Forward...
Trudeau has considerable popular support for his plans to bring home the constitution, thanks in part to a $6 million national advertising campaign in the early fall. But so far, only the premiers of Ontario and New Brunswick have promised their backing. Other premiers, including Alberta's Lougheed, are planning court challenges of the Trudeau patriation bill, arguing that it illegally infringes on provincial rights. Quebec Premier René Lévesque is bitterly opposed to the language-rights provision of the charter because it might restrict his province's legislative powers over education. In his view, Trudeau...
...sentiment and run a Reagan-like campaign, pledging to "restore" power to the provinces. Levesque's Parti Quebecois will doubtless try to capitalize on any pro-Anglophone or pro-West articles in the constitution; other provinces could rail against concessions to Quebec. The possibility of a wealthy province like Alberta withdrawing from a revised federation is greater then many think. Variations on Levesque's "sovereignty-association" formula for secession may prove the wave of the future...
Several provinces, notably Newfoundland and Alberta, have threatened to fight any parliamentary "patriation" moves. If those too should fail, the popular Trudeau may ultimately have little choice but to go over everybody's head and seek the approval of the 23 million Canadians in a national referendum. The Prime Minister does not sound like a man ready to give up the fight. "We have to find ways and means of getting out of the dead end," he said of the constitutional impasse. "At some point, let's ask the people...
GORDON'S OLD PARTNER, Bud Cort, of Harold and Maude fame, stars as Max Brown in a Canadian production of Max Braithwaite's novel Why Shoot the Teacher? The film reportedly set all kinds of box-office records in Canada--it's set in Saskatchewan and was filmed in Alberta--and it's easy to see why. Like My Bodyguard, it emphasizes real people in real situations--a young schoolteacher in a barren Canadian farmers' town...