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...would hold it in a trust instead, pending a court of appeal decision on its legality. Neighboring Alberta and probably Saskatchewan will make their payments on schedule in January but will accompany them with formal protests. The West's purpose: to force Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to renegotiate the National Energy Program he announced last October, which sharply increased the federal share of oil and gas revenues...
Under the new taxation rules, Ottawa's share of energy revenues would increase from 10% to 24%, ultimately enriching federal coffers by $21.5 billion over the next three years. According to the Trudeau government, the tax was needed mainly to offset the power of foreign multinationals, which control nearly three-quarters of Canada's present oil and gas revenues. The Prime Minister's goal is 50% Canadian ownership...
Silverman did urge the hiring of Actress Mariette Hartley, best known for her sassy role opposite James Garner in the Polaroid commercials. She was brought in last summer to substitute for Pauley, who was getting married to Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury). Though no one said as much, it seemed clear that if Hartley had done well, the job might have been hers. She did not impress NBC, however-the result of sabotage from the staff, according to Hartley-and Pauley's contract was extended three years...
...Trudeau has considerable popular support for his plans to bring home the constitution, thanks in part to a $6 million national advertising campaign in the early fall. But so far, only the premiers of Ontario and New Brunswick have promised their backing. Other premiers, including Alberta's Lougheed, are planning court challenges of the Trudeau patriation bill, arguing that it illegally infringes on provincial rights. Quebec Premier René Lévesque is bitterly opposed to the language-rights provision of the charter because it might restrict his province's legislative powers over education. In his view, Trudeau...
...vesque is at least partly right. Bringing the constitution home would be a fitting capstone to Trudeau's long and tempestuous political career, almost twelve years of which he has spent as Prime Minister. As much a philosopher as a statesman, Trudeau sometimes sees himself as the only man who can hold his linguistically divided nation together. Defending both his budgetary and constitutional proposals, he told a rally in Saskatchewan last week: "Let us put reason before passion. Let's talk a little bit more with our intelligence. Then our gut feeling will be more for Canada than...