Word: trudeau
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...exceptionally heavy week for our World section. From Canberra to Jerusalem, a shock wave of seemingly global proportions has been rattling the foundations of governments, toppling or threatening world leaders with astonishing regularity. The resignation of West Germany's Willy Brandt and the downfall of Canada's Trudeau government signaled a new high mark on the political Richter scale. This has been a remarkable period for World Senior Editor John T. Elson, whose job offers a rare overview of the international scene. Presiding over a staff of 14 writers and reporter-researchers, Elson is also in daily contact...
Stanfield also sarcastically notes that the Trudeau government could hardly be expected to be on its toes when it "is literally living on its knees" at the mercy of the N.D.P...
...Though Trudeau's popularity increased to 43% (up from 35%) in the polls, the once swinging Prime Minister faces numerous sobering problems. Inflation seems insoluble, labor has been making strong wage demands, and the Prime Minister suffers from deep-rooted unpopularity in the west because of what many westerners view as his pro-eastern-Canadian oil policy. Tory strategists thus believe that Trudeau is still as vulnerable as ever. A no-confidence vote on any of the key issues could force Trudeau to call a national election, something he would very much like to avoid. The results might...
...Trudeau has sought to widen his support by actively courting both the left and labor, making him sound at times more like an N.D.P. leader than a fiscally cautious Liberal. In his new image as champion of the leftist causes, he has struck out at the "myth" that high wage demands by unions have contributed to inflation. "It has not been the average working man who has exerted upward pressure on prices," he claimed earlier this month. At the same time, he has begun lambasting the "big guys," the multinational corporations. "We will not allow profiteers to pile up unearned...
Fighting Words. Trudeau's dependence upon the N.D.P. has become an object of Conservative derision. Conservative Leader Stanfield taunts him about running the country through a "coat-room coalition" that has resulted in "almost two years of negotiated inertia...