Word: canadas
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...first things we will do is refurbish that excellent relationship of trust that must exist between the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. is our greatest friend, neighbor and ally, period. Now, that relationship doesn't suggest any degree of compliance or servility. The fact of the matter is, if I were the President I would wake up every morning and say, "Thank God for Canada. Now what can I do for Canada?"; Can you imagine having a neighbor on your border like Canada? This is an extremely valuable relationship back and forth. But like all valuable relationships, it must...
...Vision for Canada. The election serves as a reminder to Canadian leaders that this is a country of tolerance, of protection of minorities, of civility in the Progressive Conservative tradition. On the social side, we believe very firmly in the maintenance of the universal social programs designed to care for those in our society who require assistance. That is in the Progressive Conservative tradition. On the economic side, there is in my judgment a role for government that is less interventionist than that of the Liberals and the socialists, a role that creates a climate in which the entrepreneurial genius...
Weary of separatism, Quebec decides to give Canada a chance...
Quebec has often struck outsiders as a byword for radicals and recalcitrance. The French-speaking province sends its own delegates abroad and calls its legislature the National Assembly. In 1970 a lunatic fringe agitating for Quebec's secession from Canada murdered a Cabinet minister, kidnaped a British diplomat, and set off so many explosions, both verbal and physical, that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, Canada's equivalent of martial law. Even today the nation's most eccentric voice of disaffection, the nonsensical Rhinoceros Party, is based and enjoys its greatest following in Montreal...
This year, however, the province made a stunning about-face. During the past 67 years, the Progressive Conservatives, perceived in Quebec as the party of English-speaking Canada, had carried the province only once, in 1958; in the last election, they managed to win just one of Quebec's 75 seats. Last week they captured 58. The remarkable shift emphasized just how dramatically the political tide in Quebec has turned: after 25 years of mounting autonomist fervor, the urge to unmerge is subsiding. "On the scale of things outdated," wrote Lawrence Martin, a Montreal-based columnist for the Toronto...