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...greater input in Hashimoto's attempt to deregulate a number of his nation's industries, including telecommunications. Among those expected to attend the 23rd annual meeting, renamed the Summit of Eight to account for Russia, will be Russian President Boris Yeltsin, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi...
...campaign advertisement was designed to push buttons, and it did. Framed in tight close-up were four politicians from Canada's mainly French-speaking province of Quebec, including the incumbent Prime Minister, Jean Chretien. A red line slashed across their faces. Wasn't it time that voters heard a voice for "all Canadians" and "not just Quebec politicians?" asked the narrator. Incensed Quebeckers charged the sponsors of the ad, the western-based Reform Party, with bigotry and racism. In the west, by contrast, the message struck a sympathetic chord. The Reform Party went on to capture 60 seats in Parliament...
...country's 130-year history. The Reform Party nearly swept the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia but failed to pick up a single seat east of the Prairies. In Quebec the separatist Bloc Quebecois took a majority of the 75 seats in its home province. And even Chretien's Liberals depended for two-thirds of its majority on a single province, Ontario. The new fault lines could not come at a worse time. Quebec separatist leaders have sworn to hold a referendum on independence within two years...
Prime Minister Chretien is already blamed by opponents for coming within 50,000 votes of "losing the country" in the last referendum, in 1995. His government has attempted to promote the idea of Canadian unity in Quebec and has tried to persuade the country's provincial leaders to recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" in the country's constitution. "It's a question of dignity," Chretien told TIME last week. "The fact that 85% of Quebeckers speak French is not a concept. It's a reality...
President Bill Clinton last night at a state dinner toasting the home country of visiting Prime Minister Jean Chretien...