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...Mulroney had just emerged from the most emotional and vituperative election campaign in Canadian memory -- a battle that at one point it seemed he might lose. Mulroney's Conservatives were returned to power, taking 169 seats in the 295-seat House of Commons. The opposition Liberals, led by former Prime Minister John Turner, 59, won 83 seats, while the New Democrats, under Edward Broadbent, 52, gained...
...margin amounted to a firm endorsement of the issue that totally dominated the campaign: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Signed by Mulroney and Ronald Reagan last January and passed by the U.S. Congress, the accord will bind the world's largest bilateral trading relationship -- last year's value was about $132.5 billion -- into a single duty-free market within ten years. Two days after the triumph, the Prime Minister's office announced that Parliament would meet Dec. 12 to approve the pact...
This time, says Michael McCracken, president of Informetrica, an Ottawa- based economic-research firm, "the Canadian voter took a leap of faith, opting for trade liberalization and to move against an inward-looking, anti- American approach to the economy." In effect Mulroney's victory amounted to an affirmation that Canada's identity and sovereignty are sturdy enough to survive a closer economic embrace with its best friend and neighbor...
Contrariness over the trade issue reached a peak on Oct. 25, during the second of two nationally televised debates between the party leaders. In that confrontation, and throughout the 26 remaining days of the campaign, Turner described Mulroney as a man willing to "sell out" Canada and reduce the country to an "economic colony...
...Over Mulroney's sputtered rejoinder, the Liberal leader's attack struck a nerve with the 6 million viewers who tuned in to the exchange. Turner's critics argued that he had fallen on the nationalist strategy not so much out of principle but out of desperation: down in the polls, they said, he faced ouster as his party's leader if the Liberal campaign failed. But the tactic worked: within four days, the Liberals enjoyed, according to one poll, a 4- point lead...