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...with real national powers, provincial parliaments with equally valid territorial powers, and a charter of rights and freedoms, including the preservation of linguistic rights for French-speaking Canadians. The bargaining could be difficult, since Quebeckers are not the only Canadians with grievances. The resource-rich western provinces complain of Ottawa's indifference to their needs and want more control over their oil and minerals. Still, as Chrétien said of last week's referendum: "It is a signal for everyone to sit down at the bargaining table. We can't go on living with this trauma...
Getting By. Canada stands out as the Western Hemisphere's most successful inflation fighter. February's consumer prices were 9.4% higher than a year earlier, compared with 13.9% in the U.S. for 1979. The main reason for Ottawa's relative success is that it has so far shielded consumers from the effects of the OPEC price hikes. Canada produces 75% of its oil requirements and sells oil domestically at less than half the world price...
...Well," declared Pierre Elliott Trudeau, "welcome to the 1980s." As supporters cheered his triumph in Canada's national elections last week, a moist-eyed Trudeau stood on the podium in the same ballroom of Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel where he had conceded defeat last May after eleven years as Prime Minister. A mere three months ago, he had announced his impending retirement from public life, acknowledging that he was no longer the leader to rebuild his shattered party or shape its solutions to the problems confronting Canada in the new decade...
Clark contended that his proposed total of $3.5 billion in tax increases was an essential step in bringing Ottawa's $11.2 billion spending deficit under control. He fought for his plan to raise the domestic price of oil by $4 a barrel from $13.75 this year. His goal, he said, was to encourage energy conservation as well as the development of new oil supplies. But the proposed oil price boost was seen in eastern Canada as a boondoggle for the oil producers of Clark's native Alberta. Ontario's Tory Premier William Davis publicly clashed with Clark...
Only last December, Trudeau had decided to retire from politics and keep a personal promise to his three boys, Justin, 8, Sacha, 6, and Michel, 4, to move from Ottawa to Montreal. "I wanted to have some time, before I become too decrepit, for leading a personal life and seeing my kids grow up," he explained, after announcing his intention to step down as leader of the Liberal Party. "And for three weeks," he added, "I'd begun enjoying my new life." He had received a number of job offers, including an $80,000-a-year lectureship...