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...previous administration. The Prime Minister's office itself is run by what has inevitably come to be called "the French Canadian Mafia." French-speaking ministers, long confined to portfolios with more prestige than power, now for the first time command important economic offices. Partly as a result of Trudeau's drive to give them a fair share of power, French-speaking intellectuals are beginning to turn their attention to Ottawa, rather than to Quebec City, and militant French Canadian separatists are becoming rebels with a less appealing cause...
...open-necked shirt, often sniffing or fondling a flower on his desk. His Cabinet meetings are as intellectually demanding as his University of Montreal law classes used to be, and during last summer's 90° heat they sometimes ran for more than six hours. One result is that in two months he has set in motion the most sweeping overhaul of Canada's government machinery since...
Young has kept his office doors open to potential student malcontents. Last fall, for example, he overheard a group of black students criticizing the university, promptly invited them in for a four-hour rehashing of what they felt was wrong. Partly as a result of the discussion, Young pushed through a student-organized course in Afro-American history. This fall the university is also admitting 100 promising but technically unqualified ghetto youths into a special program that will prepare them for normal academic study...
...stockbrokers or industrial executives, most former priests tend to translate their spiritual concern into academic or community service. Many seek jobs as teachers-some have even been hired by Catholic schools and colleges-or as social workers. A large number of ex-priests have married former nuns-an understandable result of their common background...
...religious order asking for laicization. Even if he is released from ministerial duties, a priest must also apply to the Vatican for a dispensation from his vow of celibacy. Some prelates simply ignore these requests, and Rome has been equally reluctant about dispensing men from vows. As a result, most for mer priests have married without permission, thereby incurring automatic excommunication. Few feel any guilt about doing so. "The church has its rules," says Don C. MacLeaish, 42, a married priest from Texas, "yet I don't think I'll go to hell...