Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getting excited is a Canadian habit at budget time. So it was hardly surprising last week when people from Newfoundland to British Columbia stopped everything to discuss how the government's new $92 billion budget would affect their pocketbooks. In his budget message in Ottawa's Neo-Gothic House of Commons, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced an 8.4% decrease in Canada's $24 billion national deficit, crowed about the country's improved economic outlook and promised a tax-reform program that would lower personal taxes. Wilson had barely finished announcing the good news when most Canadians yawned and turned their...
...Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative party capitalized on public disillusionment with the Liberal government of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to score the greatest victory in Canadian political history, capturing 211 of Commons' 282 seats and sending the Liberals into opposition. Since then, Mulroney's star has plummeted steadily. Many Canadians now predict that the Prime Minister, who must call national elections by September 1989, will be swept from power in a defeat every bit as dramatic as his earlier triumph. "I don't doubt for a moment that we will be defeated in the next election," said a gloomy...
...then Defense Minister Robert Coates was forced to resign after an Ottawa newspaper revealed that he had visited a West German strip club and shared a drink with an "exotic dancer." Eight months later Mulroney's Fisheries Minister was forced out for allowing tainted tuna to be sold to Canadian consumers. Mulroney's Communications Minister resigned from the Cabinet while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police looked into irregularities in his campaign spending, then returned after he was cleared...
Mulroney's fighting words have not reassured party regulars, many of whom see disaster ahead. A survey conducted earlier this month by Angus Reid Associates in Toronto suggests there is ample reason for concern. Mulroney's Conservatives now enjoy the backing of only 23% of Canadian voters, compared with a 50% favorable rating just before the September 1984 election. If an election were to be held now, the Liberals, with 42% support, would form Canada's next government, and the New Democrats, with 33%, would become the opposition. Mulroney, who is expected to conduct a second shuffle of his Cabinet...
...compact to be introduced in March, and the Alpine, a flashy $30,000 sports car that is due in September. AMC is pinning its highest hopes, though, on a pair of models designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the noted Italian auto stylist, which will be built at the new Canadian plant. They are the Premier, an intermediate-size sedan that will reach showrooms in October, and a sportier coupe, code-named the X-59, which will appear a year later. The Premier and the X-59 have not yet been priced, but will compete against such cars as the Ford Taurus...