Word: canadianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a monopoly on patriotism," retorted Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, head of the Progressive Conservatives, or Tories. "I want to tell you I come from a Canadian family, and I love Canada, and that's why I did it, to promote prosperity, and don't you impugn my motives...
...easily bested anything between George and Michael. The key issue during the emotionally charged three-hour debate was the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement signed by Mulroney and Ronald Reagan in January and passed by the U.S. Congress. The agreement, which has yet to be approved by the Canadian Senate, has propelled to the surface profound and often submerged anxieties over Canada's self-image and its relationship with its neighbor to the south...
Whatever the prospective economic gains, many Canadians fear the elimination of tariff and trade barriers with the U.S. will mean a far more portentous loss -- namely, national sovereignty. Canadians have long been worried that free trade would mean a kind of integration with America's economy that would wrest self-determination from Canadian industry. As far back as 1911, the government of Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier fell over a free-trade agreement -- an episode that gave birth to the slogan "No truck nor trade with the Yankees...
...trade issue. On a purely economic basis, many experts agree, the pact between the two countries, whose bilateral trade of $132.5 billion last year was the most of any two partners in the world, should be attractive to the public. The average tariff on American goods entering the Canadian market is 2.8% -- the figure is low because 65% of American imports pass duty free. On goods entering the U.S., the average tariff is only 1.2% (80% of Canadian imports are duty free), so Canadian consumers stand to gain more than their American counterparts from a lowering of the walls. Perhaps...
Yourman also said she worried that the army would confiscate her tape. Earlier that year, she said the El Salvadoran army seized a Canadian delegation's audio tapes of interviews with villagers, forced the children of the village to identify the voices on the tape and then arrested the interviewees...