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...polls suggest, Canadians who were willing to take a wait-and-see attitude after Mulroney's early mistakes are becoming impatient and increasingly question whether their Prime Minister can lead the country ably. According to a poll last month in Maclean's, a Canadian newsweekly, only 37% are satisfied with the Prime Minister's performance, vs. nearly 60% a year earlier, when he had been in office only three months. "The biggest challenge facing the government is classical leadership, to define where the government wants to go," says Allan Gregg, whose Decima Research, Ltd., conducted the Maclean's poll...
...club during a tour of NATO installations and shared a drink with a woman who described herself as an "exotic dancer." Fisheries Minister John Fraser resigned early last September in the furor that followed a television program's disclosure that he had allowed tainted tuna to be sold to Canadian consumers. And a few days later, Communications Minister Marcel Masse had to leave the Cabinet (he has since returned) while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated alleged irregularities in campaign spending...
Loud outcries greeted Mulroney's decision last month to sell De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., the unprofitable manufacturer of the Dash-8 commuter aircraft, to the Boeing company. Workers and leaders of both opposition parties would have preferred to see the government find a Canadian buyer for the company. Quebecers protested when the government allowed Ultramar, a British owned oil firm, to close down a Montreal refinery. Suzanne Blais-Grenier, who had already been demoted from her post as Environment Minister, used the controversy as an excuse to resign...
Similar expressions of disappointment greeted last week's announcement that a U.S.-Canadian team studying acid rain would recommend a $5 billion program to develop new technology but would do nothing in the meantime to reduce acid emissions from industrial polluters across the border, primarily in the Ohio Valley...
Mulroney's lament is understandable. Though the Canadian dollar took a battering last week, falling to its lowest level ever (71¢), the economy has been growing faster over the past year (4.1%) than that of any other country except Japan. Despite 10% unemployment, the majority of Canadians continue to live well. Mulroney can also take some credit for the spirit of reconciliation that has seemed to be overcoming Canada's traditional sectionalism...