Word: canadas
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Correspondent Marcia Gauger, who also reported the cover stories, visited Ottawa for the first time a year ago to cover the Conservative convention that elected Mulroney as party leader. During the eight weeks of this summer's campaign, she crisscrossed Canada to follow the major candidates. She picked up Liberal Prime Minister John Turner in British Columbia in July as he kicked off his campaign, then flew across Canada to catch up with Mulroney in his home town of Baie Comeau, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. "It was windy and barren country," she says. "Even...
...elect granted the interview published with our story. Meanwhile, Associate Editor Jim Kelly flew to Montreal and Quebec to observe the campaign, and met Mulroney and his wife before sitting down to write the cover story. The result, overseen by Senior Editor Donald Morrison, is an analysis of what Canada's change of course means to that nation...
...than a landslide of Rocky Mountain proportions. In one of the biggest electoral sweeps in Canadian history, Mulroney's Tories captured 211 seats in the 282-member Parliament, up from 103 seats in the 1980 election. The Conservative Party won a plurality of popular votes in all of Canada's ten provinces, making it a truly national party for the first time in 20 years. Drowned in cheers of "Brian! Bri-an!" Mulroney, 45, thanked the 3,000 supporters gathered at an indoor hockey rink in his Quebec home town of Baie Comeau. Said the Prime Minister-elect...
...Liberal Party, headed by Prime Minister John Turner, won only 40 seats, down from 147 in 1980. The defeat was not only a loss for Turner but a national repudiation of the party dominated by the cosmopolitan, sometimes cavalier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, under whose leadership the Liberals had ruled Canada for all but nine months since 1968. Turner, a Toronto corporate lawyer who became his party's leader after Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister in June, came close to losing his own constituency in the western province of British Columbia. He eventually prevailed, 21,728 to 18,404. Though...
...Drive, the Prime Minister's official residence in Ottawa, only two months ago, Turner and his family will have to start packing again. One of Turner's last duties will be to play host to Pope John Paul II as he begins an eleven-day visit to Canada this week. Turner, a Roman Catholic, planned to be on hand for the Pope's arrival in Quebec City on Sunday...