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The successors to the Progressive Conservatives will be Jean Chretien and the members of the Liberal Party, who skyrocketed from 79 seats to 178. But the story does not end where a contest comparable to the annual Democrat-Republican face-off would. The Liberals were not the only party to...
The most dramatic development also sported the most sectionalist banner: the Bloc Quebecois, the fervently francophonic and secessionist coalition that ran only in Quebec, nosed out the Reform Party by two seats (54 to 52) to become the new official opposition. While the Progressive Conservatives always had a counter-opinion...
The Liberals' job will be even more difficult because Quebec is its own section. Ontario, Quebec's powerful and unified neighbor (98 of its 99 representatives are Liberals) will constantly be at loggerheads with the Quebecois on national and regional issues. Furthermore, those 98 votes give Ontario's caucus alone...
As the spy enters the enemy's lair, all the master's usual, unequaled scenes are on display: the minuet between expert interrogator and expert evader; the battles in London between men of principle and Old Etonian Iagos; the appearance of a beautiful woman who offers a way out of...
FOR 30 YEARS, CANADA HAS projected a puzzling image to the world: a wealthy and comfortable nation that keeps warring peaceably with itself. During all that time, the French-speaking province of Quebec demanded additional powers to preserve its language and unique culture, while separatist pressure, generated by the Parti...