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Child. Her father, who has been living alone in a cabin on a remote northern Quebec lake, is reported missing. Accompanied by her lover (a failed potter) and another couple, who use the occasion to film a glib backwoods documentary ("A marginal economy and grizzled elderly men, it's straight out of Depression photo essays"), the daughter returns to this scene of her childhood to hunt for her father...
Trudeau's fate, in short, is at the mercy of Canada's socialist-minded New Democratic Party. The October election reduced the Liberal representation in the 264-member House of Commons from 146 to 109. The Progressive Conservative Party won 107 seats, the Quebec-based populist Social Credit Party took 15, and independents have two. The remaining 31 seats-and the balance of power-belong to the N.D.P., led by shrewd former Labor Lawyer David Lewis. As long as the N.D.P. supports Trudeau on key votes, his government will survive and another election will be delayed...
Flashes of Fire. There are still, however, flashes of the old fire. In one of his first sessions of the new Parliament, Trudeau hotly accused Tory members of trying to "divide Canada" in the election campaign-a reference to the effort by some Tories to capitalize on anti-Quebec feelings generated among English-speaking voters. But Trudeau's charge was so ill-timed and ill-tempered that it left some of his party colleagues shaking their heads in dismay. Stanfield, normally a dull public speaker, shone by comparison. When a fellow Tory heckled Trudeau about trying to change...
Despite his hard-earned riches. Filion's only outward signs of wealth are his Capital Hill Farms in Lachute, Quebec, a blue and white Fleetwood Eldorado, a flashy mod wardrobe and a $400 toupee that he wore when Canadian Governor General Roland Michener presented him with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Service Award...
Such self-denial was the way of life at the farm in Angers, Quebec, where Filion was raised as one of ten children. His childhood, recalls a friend, was "three boys in a bed, two horses in a stall, that sort of thing." His father kept a few trotters on the farm, and Hervé practically grew up in a sulky seat. "When I was a kid," he recalls, "I used to run all the way home at lunchtime to work with the horses and then run back to school. I didn't play hockey like the other kids...