Word: ottawa
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Thanks largely to their huge majority in Quebec, the Liberals outpolled the Tories 39.9% to 36.1% in the popular vote -but the parliamentary totals were the ones that counted. Early Wednesday morning, Trudeau addressed 1,000 dejected supporters in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier hotel. "I think I will be a pretty good leader of the opposition..." he began. Interrupted by applause, he never finished the sentence...
...acrimonious debate over the shape of a new constitution, which would replace the British North America Act as the country's fundamental charter, centers on the distribution of power between the provinces and the federal government in Ottawa. Western Canadians feel that their interests have too long been ignored or overlooked by Ottawa and want a larger say in the nation's affairs. Overriding everything, of course, is the issue of separatism in Quebec, and Premier Levesque's plan to hold a referendum on a new form of "sovereignty-association" between his province and the rest...
...experience to turn the economy around, maintain the authority of the central government and keep Quebec from breaking away. "In every important area of policy, Joe Clark doesn't know what the heck he is talking about," claimed Trudeau. Putting it more bluntly, one Trudeau aide told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott: "The Conservatives' bottom line is that it's time for a change. Our bottom line is that Joe Clark is a nerd...
...times Clark did little to dispel that mage. In an appeal to Jewish voters in Toronto, Clark grandly promised that he would move the Canadian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem-a move that would complicate Ottawa's relations with the Arab world. Clark's handlers were so leery of verbal miscues that they limited his appearances to small groups and friendly audiences. They also shrewdly declined to put forward detailed proposals that Trudeau, an unmatched debater, could pick apart. One exception: a highly popular plan for partial tax deductions for home mortgage interest payments...
Some Canadians thought of it as their country's doomsday scenario. The election of an English-speaking government in Ottawa would be seen by Quebeckers as a hostile rejection. Whereupon Premier Rene Levesque (pronounced Leh-vek) would immediately call a provincial referendum on a separate status for Quebec. After his Parti Quebecois legions stumped the province insisting that Quebeckers now had no choice but to entrust their future to their own government, the voters would give Levesque his mandate to present Ottawa with an ultimatum...