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Though the plebiscite was not formally binding on the Canadian government, Ottawa is going ahead with its plans to set up a local administration and hand over political control of the area by 1999. In November the residents, 85% of whom are Inuit, will be asked to vote again on a complicated land settlement. The deal will offer the Inuit outright ownership of 135,000 sq. mi. and a cash payment of $1 billion over 14 years. If it is accepted, a crash program will begin training the Inuit to take over administration of the Nunavut territorial government...
...Federal officials are meeting in Ottawa to try to patch together a new agreement on Quebec's status. Could they conceivably come up with something you could...
Another malign force in Canadian life is the national government. In recent decades it's been spending like a sailor. (Thirty cents out of every dollar Ottawa collects goes to service the debt, vs. 17 cents of every dollar in Washington.) The behavior of the central government especially angers the resource-rich provinces of the west. But neither big spending nor structural problems get a hearing in the din over the Quebec issue...
They call themselves Inuit -- "the people" -- and they eke out simple lives in tiny communities scattered across the frozen tundra of the Northwest Territories. Last week, after 15 years of negotiations with Ottawa, an agreement was announced under which the Inuit will take political control of one-fifth of Canada's land area...
...hours. Mulroney's newest sally is a bill that Parliament debates this week. Besides a no-strike provision for PSAC employees, the hardball legislation would effectively ban collective bargaining for two years for workers in a far broader range of government- related jobs. While the battle rages, the Ottawa exchequer is saving $7 million a day in strikers' salaries...