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Canadians marked their country's 115th birthday last week with picnics, parades and a dazzling display of fireworks over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. But the celebration hardly reflected the times; Canada faces its worst economic slump since the 1930s. Unemployment stands at a post-Depression high of 10.2%, inflation is galloping along at 11.8%, and the prime rate is stuck at a crippling 18.25%. In an effort to check the growing sense of alarm, Finance Minister Allan MacEachen unveiled a new budget, his third in less than 18 months. But as Canadians studied his belt-tightening measures...
...dozen 767s ordered from Boeing. At the same time, the Reagan Administration has been considering an effort to block the sale of $663 million worth of Canadian-built subway cars to New York City. The American competitor claimed that the Canadians got the deal largely because the Ottawa government had overly subsidized the interest rate that New York City paid...
...have things changed since your meetings with Western leaders at Ottawa last July...
...still fighting. In a fiery speech last week, he called the Constitution Act a "most pernicious document" that would "systematically isolate" Quebec. In fact, polls show that only 32% of Quebeckers back his stand, while 48% feel he should have approved the new constitution. Levesque boycotted the ceremony in Ottawa, but French-and English-speaking members of Quebec's opposition Liberal Party attended. An anticonstitution demonstration organized by his Parti Quebecois in Montreal drew 25,000 marchers...
...constitution that came home from London still leaves Canada's main institutional problem unresolved: how to share power between Ottawa and the ten provincial governments. Though most Canadians feel it is time to move on to other questions, including the country's pressing economic problems, the federal-provincial issue will inevitably continue to complicate Canada's political life...