Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hockey arena in the gritty Quebec town of Baie Comeau, lasers flashed and a nine-piece band pumped out noisy dance numbers. Amid the din, 3,000 supporters of the Progressive Conservative Party whooped it up, delighting in one of Canada's most momentous election triumphs -- and waiting for the hometown hero to make his appearance. Then the doors opened, the television lights switched on, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 49, strode in. "Feels great," he said as he shouldered his way across temporary plywood flooring toward a stage set up roughly at center ice, with a huge...
Moments later, with his wife Mila and their three eldest children looking on, the Prime Minister declared on national television that Canada had embarked on an era of "openness to the rest of the world." Voters, he said, "have stated with a clear sense of their identity what they want to be and what they want...
...phasing out remaining trade barriers, the U.S. and Canada should boost their industrial productivity, which will allow them to compete more effectively with Asian and European rivals. The members of the European Economic Community have already agreed to remove all of their internal barriers by 1992. Now, Canada and the U.S. have taken an important first step toward creating a competitive and cohesive North American economy...
...Canada now has a well-developed welfare state which provides admirably for all its citizens and seems to reflect the sense of community that Canadians hold dear. The Liberal and New Democratic fear that Canada would become more like the U.S. will become a painful reality if Mulroney starts to cut away at these programs to attack the country's large budget deficit...
Mulroney must be careful to use the trade agreement to increase Canada's economic vitality without sacrificing his nation's cultural identity. The pact ought to give Americans a chance to examine Canadian social programs. In this regard, the pact could end up making the U.S. more like Canada, instead of making Canada more like...