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...political fortunes was caused by the strangest election result that Canadians had ever imposed upon themselves. At week's end, with several closely contested constituencies scheduled to undergo recounts, the two largest parties seemed, incredibly, to be tied with 109 seats each. The Progressive Conservatives, led by Robert Stanfield, had won nearly all their seats in English-speaking provinces; Trudeau's Liberals were elected principally in French-speaking Quebec. The rest were divided among the socialist-oriented New Democratic Party (30), the right-wing populist Social Credit Party (14) and independents (2). As the Toronto Sun headlined...
THAT much-abused political adjective charismatic has never been applied to Robert Lome Stanfield. In personal appearance and public demeanor, he makes Richard Milhous Nixon seem almost gaudy. His balding head seems to come to a point, his chin is somehow thin and droopy at the same time, his lips look pinched even when he smiles, and he has a fondness for gray suits. Even after five years as Canada's Opposition Leader, Stanfield conceded that "there are a good many Canadians to whom I'm still a bit obscure...
...unlikely that Stanfield's image will change very much, even if he becomes the next Prime Minister. "I am what I am," he once said. "I can't change without being phony." But as more Canadians get better acquainted with Stanfield, they will learn that beneath his bland public exterior lies a compelling private man. "To know Stanfield is to like him," reports TIME Correspondent Geoffrey Stevens, who has closely followed the Tory leader's career since 1965. "He is a 'nice' man in a game that is not at all nice. His honesty...
Although, at 58, he is only five years older than Pierre Trudeau, Stanfield often seems a generation apart. Indeed, he has a married daughter and a son older than Trudeau's wife Margaret (who is 24), as well as two younger daughters. Stanfield's first wife was killed in an automobile crash in 1954; his second wife Mary is the daughter of a former justice of Nova Scotia. With the children scattered, the Stanfields have been living quietly in Ottawa at Stornoway, the official residence of Canada's Opposition Leader. His favorite pastime is gardening...
...Stanfield nonetheless has a convincing issue in unemployment. Some 7.1% of Canadians are out of work. Everywhere, too, Canadians complain that the Unemployment Insurance Commission (which pays those out of work up to $100 a week) is being abused by "welfare loafers"-an unoriginal theme that Stanfield has incorporated into his campaign with his call that "it is time to end unemployment as a way of life across Canada and get Canadians back to work...