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...campaign. As Clark quietly canvassed the country, cloaked in the greatest degree of anonymity a potential Western national leader can be afforded, the Conservatives flooded the airwaves with anti-Trudeau messages. The strategy worked; 11 years of Trudeau were enough for Canadians. Only the Liberals' longstanding support in Quebec prevented a Tory majority...
...community of communities"; he said offshore resources belonged to the provinces; he tried to dismember Canada's national oil company, PetroCan, and repeatedly waxed inconsistent. In addition, he ceded Loto Canada, formerly the Olympic lottery, to the provinces, and most significantly, said he would not participate in Quebec's forthcoming referendum debate on secession...
...election results underscored Canada's regional voting preferences. The Liberals prevailed in all but one seat in Quebec, but failed to win a single seat west of Manitoba. When Trudeau composes his cabinet, he will face a problem parallel to one Clark faced: equitable regional representation. Whereas Clark had to struggle to find legitimate Quebec cabinet ministers, Trudeau will have to search for Westerners. Already there is a growing fear in the resource-rich West of political isolation; and there are rumblings of separation...
Despite Trudeau's overwhelming popularity in Quebec, Quebec's secession movement remains, spearheaded by Rene Levesque's Parti Quebecois. One disenchanted Canadian student watching the election returns Monday predicted, "Trudeau will be prime minister when Canada falls apart...