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...landslide victory of his Progressive Conservative Party on the magazine's cover this week, they did not have to look far for expertise on the subject. Three of TIME'S former Canadian bureau chiefs are now based in New York City: Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan (Ottawa, 1968-71), Deputy Chief William Mader (Ottawa, 1973-76) and Senior Editor Henry Muller (Vancouver, 1971-73). Their continuing interest in the U.S.'s northern neighbor helped give impetus to our full-length story on the state of Canada and its politics...
Part of the reporting assignment fell to another onetime Canadian bureau chief, Gavin Scott. He joined TIME as a correspondent in his home town of Montreal in 1959 and then served in Ottawa for 1½ years before moving on to Buenos Aires, Madrid, Boston, Beirut, Saigon and San Francisco. Scott's current beat is South America, which he covers from Rio de Janeiro, but he was on vacation in the village of Georgeville, Quebec, last month when it became apparent that Mulroney could win big. Scott quickly revved up and did some intensive pulse-taking of government officials...
...stage. Although his policies and personality had commanded world attention for a country so often hidden in the shadow of its powerful neighbor to the south, Trudeau has scarcely been heard from since announcing last March that he would not seek a fifth term. Says Douglas McNaughton, chairman of Ottawa's Public Affairs Institute: "We are at the end of the Trudeau era. The public is in the mood for a change...
...officials contend that despite disputes over trade barriers, U.S. investment in Canada and environmental issues such as acid rain, relations between the two neighbors have taken a turn for the better. But the American economic upsurge has only just started to spill across the border into Canada. Economists in Ottawa fear that as Canadian interest rates climb ever higher to keep Space with American lending rates, the fragile Canadian recovery of the past 15 months could be choked...
Trudeau could behave petulantly-yes, indeed-but he also showed grace under pressure, he was eloquent on occasion and easily the intellectual superior of anybody else in Parliament. He entrenched French power in Ottawa to the happy extent that it is now no longer possible for a unilingual leader to be Prime Minister...