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...Pierre Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, asked if he had read estranged Wife Margaret's lurid autobiography: "You want to know the nature of my thoughts? You won't get them...
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...
...risk of being called a traitor," as Joe Clark tartly put it on a swing to Quebec City, the youthful Tory leader concentrated on the Trudeau economic record and pledged a passel of policies to Get Canada Working Again. The son of a newspaper publisher in High River, Alta., Clark has proved himself an adept parliamentary leader in his three years as Conservative chief. Many Canadians, however, worry about his relative inexperience, particularly in foreign affairs. After a somewhat nervous start on the hustings, Clark found his stride, advancing himself as a consensus seeker as opposed to "Mr. Trudeau...