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...ABOVE EXCHANGE is purely hypothetical, but it represents in roughest form the core of the Canadian constitutional debate. The possibility that at once embarrasses and frightens most Canadians right now is that the above debate will be played out not in Ottawa, but in London. London, England. Rather than the party led by prime minister Pierre Trudeau battling to a verdict with the party led by Joe Clark, the final decision on the status of a Canadian constitution may come to rest with the followers of Margaret Thatcher and the followers of Michael Foot...
...dark-walnut-paneled Ottawa courtroom was packed with government lawyers, bureaucrats and a few curious law students last week as the nine black-robed justices of Canada's Supreme Court filed in to deliver a historic verdict on the country's future. When Chief Justice Bora Laskin began to read, there was a moment of confusion. A special sound system failed, and his words were barely audible to a nationwide television audience. But the impact of his message was clear enough. At the end of a five-month courtroom fight between the federal government of Canadian Prime Minister...
...Jesse Helms and other rightists-the atmosphere is humid with intrigues, heavy-breathing innuendoes and indirect quotes ("Important conservative Republicans in Congress, while keeping mum publicly, grumble privately that the President has lost control of his own Administration to moderate forces"). Reagan momentarily retrieved himself to Evans-Novak at Ottawa by proving "rigidly ideological as no other American President has been." Criticism might be preferable to that kind of praise...
...capital outflows of more than $10 billion, compared with an average outflow of about $2 billion annually during the 1970s. Much of the money is leaving not just because of current economic upset but because of a perceived sense of increasing intervention in the Canadian private sector by the Ottawa government...
Canada's multiplying miseries are as much political as economic. Power sharing between the ten provinces and the central government in Ottawa has often been difficult, and separatist pressures in French-speaking Quebec have been especially troublesome. The most recent difficulty involves the burgeoning oil wealth of Alberta and other energy-rich western provinces, which have been waging a tug-of-war with Ottawa over energy pricing, taxes and revenues...