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While Treu was being secretly tried this spring, the Canadian government used the Official Secrets Act for the first time against a newspaper, prosecuting the Toronto Sun for disclosing a top-secret Mountie report on Soviet espionage. Critics complain that the Sun, a persistent right-wing gadfly to the Trudeau government, is being charged not with spilling secrets but with revealing government ineptness at dealing with Soviet spies...
After considerable cajoling by his fellow summiteers, President Carter eased his stand against the export of nuclear fuel. He and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau agreed that their countries would be "reliable suppliers" of enriched uranium to the Western Europeans and Japanese, provided that those nations impose stricter safeguards against the spread of atomic weapons; they said they would...
Canada's Trudeau vowed to achieve a 5% growth rate for his nation, but almost no one in Canada took him seriously. At present Canada's growth rate is so low (2.8%), inflation so high (9%) and unemployment so troublesome (8.6%) that Trudeau, with a current budget deficit of $11.5 billion, is boxed in from taking any strong economic initiatives...
...Trudeau's real weak spot, should he seek a new mandate this fall, is Canada's economic performance, which lags well behind that of the U.S. One of the prime reasons is Ottawa's past mishandling of policy. The government has been widely criticized for badly overheating the economy, then slapping on wage-and-price controls that are only now being removed. Despite a recent industrial upsurge, the national unemployment rate seems stuck at 8.6% (vs. 6% in the U.S.), while rekindled inflation hovers around 8%. The Canadian dollar, which lost 13% of its value...
...Trudeau's ups and downs in the polls made him back away from calling elections this summer; legally, he can wait until next July. The constitutional package, however, may breathe new popularity into Trudeau's ten-year-old government; in that case the September constitutional conference might be an ideal launching pad for a campaign. One of his country's wiliest political survivors, Trudeau is aware that the voters have what the Canadian Gallup poll calls a love-hate relationship with him. The pollsters found that 43% of Canadians, for example, disapprove of the way their Prime...