Word: canadas
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...deluged with letters from constituents opposed to the bill. Legislative Aide Frank Williams said that the general tone of the mail was "You don't tell me what to do in my own automobile." Only an estimated 13% of U.S. auto passengers use their seat belts. In Ontario, Canada, which for eight years has had a law making the failure to use seat belts punishable by a $53 fine, 39% of drivers still refuse to buckle up.* The most vigorous opponents of the Dole plan are safety activists and insurance companies who have lobbied persistently for mandatory air bags...
Politics and protocol weighed heavily on the mind of Canada's new Prime Minister, John Turner, 55, as he sped home from a whirlwind visit to London. He had gone there to see Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and to ask Queen Elizabeth II, who is also Canada's Constitutional Monarch, to postpone a two-week tour of Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick that was scheduled to begin last week. The Queen's assent allowed Turner to make a much awaited announcement: Canadians will go to the polls on Sept. 4.* The federal election was needed, he said...
...Turner has not held elective office since resigning as Finance Minister eight years ago. (Mulroney, who took over the Conservatives in June 1983, won his parliamentary seat two months later). Both are corporate lawyers who favor a mild rightward shift in government. Neither advocates a major assault on Canada's extensive social-welfare system, although both favor long-term reductions in the country's U.S. $22.5 billion federal deficit (7.7% of last year's G.N.P.) and a more receptive climate for foreign, particularly U.S., investment. Among the problems the next national leader will face: 11.3% unemployment...
...addition, both Turner and Mulroney agree that the next Canadian government should be more representative of the country as a whole. Under Trudeau, the Liberals shrank to become the party of eastern Canada: they held only two of 77 parliamentary seats from the four provinces west of Ontario. For their part, the Conservatives have only one of 75 seats in the French-speaking province of Quebec. In parallel attempts to remedy that imbalance, Ontario-raised Turner is expected to run for Parliament from British Columbia, while Mulroney is expected to trade his safe seat in Nova Scotia for a constituency...
...Queen, who avoids visits during election campaigns, will now tour Canada from Sept. 24 to Oct. 7. She will then spend two weeks on horse farms in Virginia and Wyoming...