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Pearson was first known outside Canada as a diplomat, the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to resolve the 1956 Suez crisis. At home he presided over Canada's government at a time when Quebec was threatening to split the Canadian confederation -and responded with flexibility, imagination and skill. Although his government was plagued by scandal-which never touched him personally-it was also extraordinarily productive. Among other things, it produced Canada's comprehensive universal medicare program, and Canada's first national flag...
Pearson's most lasting accomplishment was essentially a negative one-he kept Canada from splitting apart. He awoke his own party and English-speaking Canada to the imperative need to accommodate Quebec's so-called Quiet Revolution. He also invoked a diplomat's infinite flexibility to prevent a collision between Ottawa and French Canadian nationalists. In a rare moment of immodesty, Mike Pearson precisely summed up his own achievement: "It is not nation building. It is nation saving. It is not less than that...
...MONT TREMBLANT, QUEBEC. Seventy miles north of Montreal, Mont Tremblant makes up in variety what it lacks in size (3,150 ft.). It has some 60 miles of trails, topflight bilingual instructors and hotels that serve food that would do credit to a Lyon chef. Blood-congealing temperatures are common, but Tremblant's well-planned runs and lively atmosphere make it popular with families that appreciate package-price elegance. A week's stay, including full board and lessons: about...
...Quakers' first three lines and first two sets of defense boast nine icemen from Ontario and three from Quebec. Second-time wing John Harwood and goalie Tim McQuiston are the only Americans who see action regularly...
...mess could fairly be blamed on Trudeau, who had somehow managed to turn voters off in the course of an eight-week campaign of seemingly calculated indifference. He picked as his theme "the integrity of Canada," a precise but passionless way of declaring his opposition to Quebec separatism, and as his slogan "the land is strong," which is practically meaningless. He could not, it seemed, communicate any sense of concern over Canada's appallingly high unemployment rate of 7.1 %. As a Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate...