Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb and his wife Sondra often wine and dine Washington's most glittering names. One figure they would rather not meet, however, is Whitney North Seymour Jr., the independent counsel attempting to prosecute former Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver for perjury. Last week Seymour tried to subpoena the Gotliebs to testify about Deaver's involvement in Canadian affairs while in the White House...
...Canadian government claims that diplomatic immunity exempts the Gotliebs from testifying. Contending that Canada waived that privilege when officials answered written questions last year, Seymour accused the government of "duplicitous behavior." Canadian External Affairs Secretary Joe Clark called Seymour's argument "irresponsible." The skirmish has quieted down temporarily: the judge presiding over Deaver's trial decided to postpone proceedings until the fall...
...Canadians, especially those outside French-speaking Quebec, were understandably irate back in 1967 when French President Charles de Gaulle stood on a balcony at Montreal's city hall and encouraged the province's then violent separatist movement with his cry of "Vive le Quebec libre ((Long live free Quebec))." Until President Francois Mitterrand arrived last week, no French chief of state had set foot on Canadian soil since then...
...seem to have been conducting a purge of family members who oppose the privatization plan. Those let go include Bacardi Corp. Vice President Adolfo Comas Bacardi; Jorge Bacardi, vice president of the Bahamas operation; Toten Comas Bacardi, a quality-control manager in Europe; and Alberto Bacardi, president of a Canadian subsidiary...
...earth would Ottawa want to buy ten nuclear-powered submarines? "If there is going to be somebody's navy in the north," explained Defense Minister Perrin Beatty, "it should be ours." The Canadians are irked that U.S. subs patrol the Arctic passage without permission from Ottawa, which claims the waters as Canadian territory...