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...Diefenbaker as party leader last September. Stanfield is cautious and reserved, but a proven vote getter and administrator who served an unprecedented four terms as Nova Scotia's Premier. In the few months since he assumed the Tory leadership, he has restructured and strengthened the party organization in Ottawa and the country's 264 election districts. Still, most Canadians feel that the contest will be one of personalities rather than of issues - and that building images will thus be as important as building organizations...
...while he is still almost entirely unknown both to the Canadian people and to the incumbent Liberal Party which elected him. What is certain is that he has youthfulness and charisma, and it appears that these were the qualities that the Liberals were looking for when they met in Ottawa three weeks ago to choose a successor to 70-year old Lester B. Pearson, who had announced his retirement last winter...
...Canadian Confederation. Trudeau has taken a hard-line stance on demands by French Canadian nationalists--notably Quebec's Premier Daniel Johnson--that Canada's constitution be rewritten to confer a special status on Quebec transferring Quebec a wide range of powers now held by the Federal government in Ottawa. By opposing all such demands, Trudeau runs the risk of losing much of his remaining support among French Canadians--an ironic predicament for a French Canadian Prime Minister...
Thus Trudeau's approach to Ottawa-Quebec relations is likely to be less diplomatic and cautious than was Pearson's. For Trudeau will attempt to do something that Pearson could never do: he will try to replace the Premier of Quebec as the leader of French Canada. This effort may well lead to a direct confrontation between Premier Johnson and Prime Minister Trudeau on the question of special status for Quebec. And if such a confrontation occurs, it could prove to be the turning point--one way or the other--in the 200 year history of French-English division...
...moment, the new Prime Minister's chief concerns are Charles De Gaulle and his own popularity. In the past few days, Canada narrowly avoided breaking diplomatic relations with France after Quebec was invited to a Paris conference of French-speaking education ministers; Ottawa saw the invitation as an attempt by deGaulle to confer national status on the provincial government in Quebec. A last-minute compromise may have saved the situation for now, but with the French President showing no signs of discontinuing his political support of Quebec nationalism, further De Gaulle-Trudeau clashes appear imminent...