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Canada's ruling Progressive Conservative Party has chosen Kim Campbell as its leader to replace Brian Mulroney, who is stepping down. Campbell will be the first woman Prime Minister in Canadian history. Turkey also got its first woman Prime Minister last week when economist Tansu Ciller was named to that office...
WHAT WAS A MAN TO DO? BRIAN MULRONEY, 53, had twice led his Progressive Conservative Party to victory, introduced a history-making free-trade pact with the U.S., and imposed an economically sound 7% value-added sales tax. But Canada remained mired in a deep economic recession, and a messy constitutional wrangle with Quebec lingered unresolved. Not since August 1990 had Mulroney's approval ratings passed 20%, and chances of winning a fall election seemed remote. Eight and a half years into the job, the Prime Minister said he would step aside in favor of a fresh face to lead...
...Mulroney will yield in mid-June, when his party chooses a successor, who will serve as Prime Minister until parliamentary elections are held, probably in September. Defense Minister Kim Campbell, 45, leads a passel of undeclared P.C. pretenders. The likely opponent, for now, would appear to be Jean Chretien, 59, chief of the Liberal Party, which led the Conservatives 45% to 25% in the latest poll...
...result appears to be something akin to anticlimax. Rather than aggravating French-English tensions, the outcome seems to have left 27 million Canadians relieved that, at least for now, the perennial constitutional issue has been swept off the table. The compromise proposal, supported strongly by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, lost by a nationwide vote of 54% to 45%; it was rejected in six of the 10 provinces, including Quebec. That, noted Brian Falesky, a lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, "was the first time Canadians became passionate about the destiny of the country since World War II. Sure, there was divergence...
...single factor defines the new mood, it is distrust of politics as usual. Prime Minister Mulroney's approval rating has hovered around 15% for years. Now, rising disenchantment with conventional parties means that in the next national election, which must take place by November 1993, at least five parties will compete for votes, including the Western-based and business- oriented Reform Party, which gained ground on the basis of its opposition to the latest constitutional package...