Word: trudeau
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Tough Stand. The Canadian solution after the two kidnapings in Quebec in 1970 was a massive show of police and military strength, ordered by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many government officials were given round-the-clock protection by police or soldiers, and some wealthy families spent sizable sums to hire private guards. Police were empowered to hold suspected terrorists without formal charges for 21 days. Hundreds of Quebeckers - most of them French-speaking separatists, but not terrorists - were arrested in nighttime raids. Canadians endured a state of near-martial law for two months, and polls showed that a large majority...
...Canada's constitution, allows provinces to retain control of their natural resources. People in Alberta and Saskatchewan commonly believe that they, not the federal government, should choose the markets and collect the taxes on oil pumped from the vast reserves within their borders. Easterners and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government maintain that the oil is a national treasure and that its sale abroad should be controlled and taxed by the federal government. The U.S. is the third party with an interest in the dispute; last year an average 1.2 million bbl. of oil per day, around...
...opposing views clashed head-on late last month at a nationally televised conference of Trudeau and provincial premiers in Ottawa. Both sides voiced strong arguments. For its part, eastern Canada is suffering from shortages and high prices. A gallon of regular gasoline costs 69? in Montreal, compared with only 47? in much of the West. A temporary compromise on oil export taxes was hammered out at the Ottawa meeting. Half of the tax revenues will go to the oil-exporting provinces and half to the federal government, which will use its share to subsidize lower gas prices in the East...
...second time in three Christmases, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau received the same present from his wife Margaret; a son. On Christmas Day 1971 Justin Pierre was born. This Christmas Day Alexandre Emmanuel arrived. Two days after taking Justin to the hospital in Ottawa to see his brother, Trudeau announced the name of his newborn son. He said he had selected Emmanuel (Hebrew for God with us), while his wife had chosen Alexandre, "after the saint, the Czar or the Pope-take the one you want," joked Trudeau, adding that the baby would be known simply...
...backcourt, Harvard's Ken Wolfe will have his hands full with good dribblers Kneib and Trudeau, and fine outside shooter Washington...