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...would lead to U.S. and Canadian pressure to reduce Canada's comprehensive system of medicare and generous old-age pensions. Other opponents of free trade, many of them organized in the activist coalition known as the Pro-Canada Network, published a pamphlet that featured cartoons of, among other things, Mulroney pledging allegiance in front of the Stars and Stripes. A pro-Mulroney heckler who showed up at a Turner rally in Montreal was beaten bloody, an incident that shocked a law-and-order-minded country...
...Reagan made a bland 30-second reference to the free- trade pact in a long-planned speech on global trade -- the President called the accord "an example of cooperation at its best" -- Turner described Reagan's words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again and again, Turner hammered at his main theme: "Mr. Mulroney wants to turn us into the 51st state...
...Mulroney's response was simple and accurate: the virtues of free trade could be measured in jobs, jobs, jobs. At a rally in the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam, he told supporters that "2 million jobs are dependent on trade." Wherever he traveled the Prime Minister declaimed, "John Turner says the cause of his life is to tear up a treaty; the cause of my life is to build a nation." Failure to endorse the trade agreement, he warned, would leave the country mired in the "poverty of protectionism...
...often happens in Canadian politics, Quebec provided the decisive margin last week. The Conservatives benefited, of course, from the fact that Mulroney is a native son, fluent in both English and locally accented French. The party also enjoyed the strong support of Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, a Liberal but a believer in free trade and Quebec's prospects in a more open North American economy. Most important, Quebec's response reflected the degree to which the French-speaking province has become politically and culturally self-assured, apparently more confident than much of English Canada that its identity will...
...been strong in southern Ontario, particularly among the intelligentsia and the union movement. Despite the appeal and support of David Peterson, the personable Ontario Premier, the Liberals won only 43 of 99 seats. In the traditionally Conservative West, the results were virtually a foregone conclusion: a healthy margin for Mulroney, but also a strong showing ) for the socialist New Democrats...