Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan...
...Trudeau's bill in provincial courts on the grounds that it would illegally curtail the traditional rights of the provincial governments. Moreover, Trudeau's efforts to bring provincial energy resources under greater federal control have sparked bitter separatist demonstrations in the oil-and gas-rich western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Lévesque's new mandate seemed certain to exacerbate such burgeoning anti-Ottawa sentiment...
British Columbia boldly announced that it would refuse to turn over the tax and would hold it in a trust instead, pending a court of appeal decision on its legality. Neighboring Alberta and probably Saskatchewan will make their payments on schedule in January but will accompany them with formal protests. The West's purpose: to force Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to renegotiate the National Energy Program he announced last October, which sharply increased the federal share of oil and gas revenues...
...tempestuous political career, almost twelve years of which he has spent as Prime Minister. As much a philosopher as a statesman, Trudeau sometimes sees himself as the only man who can hold his linguistically divided nation together. Defending both his budgetary and constitutional proposals, he told a rally in Saskatchewan last week: "Let us put reason before passion. Let's talk a little bit more with our intelligence. Then our gut feeling will be more for Canada than for any particular province or division of this country...
...what exactly are real people? Do they eat meatloaf and shop at K-Mart or wear moth-eaten sweaters and hum Haydn in the shower? And what is a real situation? A Saskatchewan classroom during the Depression can appear as real as a Chicago classroom today and a Canadian bully can be just as real as an American hood. So what gives both these films the accessible quality of coffee-table books, full of colorful portraits, sensible prose and a handful of good chuckles...