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...This will be the most important election in Canada's history," declared Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa. Hyperbole aside, last week's Quebec elections did involve something less parochial than the issues that normally dominate the politics of provincial Canada. At stake: whether Quebec would remain in the Canadian confederation...
Secession from predominantly English-speaking Canada-or separatism-has been an issue in Quebec for more than two centuries. But only in the past decade has it emerged as a potent political force. In the 1970 election, the péquistes (for the initials P.Q. in Parti Québécois) won 23.7% of the vote and seven seats in the assembly. In 1970 a separatist terror organization called the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped the British trade commissioner and murdered Pierre Laporte, the Liberal Party's Labor Minister. Ottawa...
Trudeau is beset by serious political and economic woes. Despite all his efforts, Canada is reeling from growing inflation and rising unemployment. Quebec separatists regard the Official Languages Act-which makes French along with English the official language of government-as tokenism. The western provinces growl that the government is ignoring their problems...
...face a long Canadian winter. There is little likelihood that Conservative Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield, who lost so narrowly last time, will give him a breather. The trip to China will not solve Trudeau's troubles at home. Inflation (especially in food prices)-along with unemployment and fractious Quebec-provides Stanfield with missiles to try to pierce Trudeau's new image...
Cairnie came to the School of Landscape Design at Harvard from Caticook, Quebec, in the 1920s. He soon abandoned his studies and devoted all his energies to his books. He was an honorary member of the Signet Society. The Advocate along with several other national literary reviews dedicated issues...