Word: trudeau
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...election marks the first time since Canadians were caught up in the tides of Trudeaumania a decade ago that the Liberals have entered a race running behind. Along with his eloquence and intellect, Trudeau is carrying into the campaign the weight of considerable baggage-notably an economic record that has managed to combine sluggish growth with 9.2% inflation, an unemployment rate of 7.9% and a $12 billion government deficit...
...Trudeau also entered the campaign bearing up under an unusual cross for a Canadian Prime Minister: competing for newspaper space with serialized tattletale excerpts from Beyond Reason, the memoirs of his estranged wife Margaret, 30. As he has since their separation in 1977, Trudeau maintained a dignified silence about Margaret, whose revelations about their life together are unlikely to affect the election either...
What may influence the voters' judgment is Tory criticism that the Trudeau years failed to resolve the alienation of the newly resource-rich Western Canadian provinces, which feel that their growing economic clout is not matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most...
...Trudeau's home province of Quebec, the government of Premier Rene Levesque is determined to end the minority status of French-speaking Quebeckers in predominantly English-speaking Canada by achieving independence for the province. As a first step, the Levesque government is preparing to call a plebiscite as early as next fall, asking for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined formula of political sovereignty for Quebec and an economic association with the rest of Canada. A few years ago, Trudeau declared that "separatism is dead." Now he is trying to rouse attention to the threat of separatism...
...Liberals consider national unity to be Trudeau's strongest ploy but at least in the early going, he had difficulty using it. When told on a Toronto hot-line radio show that the voters were more worried about inflation and unemployment, the Prime Minister unguardedly blurted out that he found it "almost treasonable" for anyone to suggest that national unity was not an important issue...