Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week's elections, Canada--which boasts only one-tenth of the United States' population--showed itself to be the most vibrant existing democracy. After almost a decade of uninterrupted rule by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Canada has completely rebuffed his Progressive Conservative Party. The Conservatives were knocked from 153 seats in the House of Commons down...
This year's elections highlighted the sectionalist nature of Canada's voting public. In the West, the Reform Party--the newest version of the corruption--plagued Social Credit or "SoCred" Party--took the majority in British Columbia and Alberta. The New Democrats, who are less centrist than the Liberals and do not really exist east of the Continental Divide, were cut from 35 seats to eight...
...seems more likely that Canada experienced a changed political climate too quickly for the Progressive Conservatives to calculate a reaction. During Mulroney's second term, recession hit Canada as hard as it did the United States. If the election had been held two years ago, the Progressive Conservatives would probably still have lost, but by a smaller margin. The fact that their influence was cut by an amount equal to more than half the seats in the House of Commons demonstrates just how dynamic Canadian political opinion...
...imagine that someone as freewheeling as Bill Clinton could become a disciplined guerrilla warrior. Yet the President has deliberately gone underground in his battle for congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. That pact, which would tear down most trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, is faring poorly under the damaging "air war" of television ads, talk-show appearances and telephone banks designed by labor unions and Ross Perot. So Clinton is fighting back in defilade -- in the congressional districts of 100 undecided lawmakers whom he believes can be won over with special attention and favors...
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