: remember

1982-83, if he:
| ‘Trudeau. will have beaten all

ing- tl sm .
Prime. Minister. Pierre Elliott Trudeau is widely.
expected to announce the date for a. summer.
election. If he wins it and goes on to complete
fourth term, he will have held continuous office
for longer. than - any: other Canadian prime
minimster by the. time the next t appeal to > the:
voters falls due i in 1982-83. -

- Should these things happen. however; there
are those who wonder whether, in fact, they will: ..
ever see another appeal to the voters. ‘in the a
Canadian parliamentary tradition. ce BE

If. this thought seems ‘a.

little ctartlino. it’s as well to

© that | Canada” is’

as ro
already a good deal farther

down the road to becoming a.
one-party state: than most _
other’. leading - . Western
democracies. a

For 57 out of: the By years
of the present century the |
country has. been. ruled by”
the Liberal Party, as.
ar mere 21 years of Conserva-.

overnment, Tre
Liberals ave been in power
without a break for the.

15 years, and this Apri 30
Mr. Trudeau will have been _
prime minister for’ 10 years.

‘Aiready his record is
exceeded by only the Tory .
Father of Confederation, Sir:

- John A. Macdonald, and two ©

other. Liberal prime ‘Minis-
ters, Mackenzie King — and
Louis": St. Laurent. By.
sutvives,

three of them.
NO OTHER MEMORY |

“Most youngsters probably .
have. very little interest in.
jlitics before the age of:10 -
feven if then). Today, there-

fore, it can be fairly said that
geheration of

a whole.
Canadian voters between the

And the anime “goes; cf
course, for. ‘the, tens of
thousands of ethnic voters
admitted to Canada since
1963 under the immigration
policies of Successive ty

vernments ,

ese -new citizens oc aoraing

from countries where one-
party rule, or worse, is the
accepted way of life.

By comparison with the
uninterru ted Trudeau reign
since 1968, the United States

had "three presidents
dusin the same period,
including the forced resigna-:
tion of one them in
disgrace. In the last 10 years
Britain has had two switches
| «Stparty at the polls and three
erent prime © ministers.

- Of . opposition . parties . to

month of. April

We af 66 wot ta 2821 99 wf BA,
It tne ““stauility’” of avade

‘Trudeau’s Liberal regime.
over the ‘past decade - could
conscientiously be e ascribed
to its sound ‘and™ progressive .
administration .

* just sibly be.some argu-.
st Pee resisting the clatins

“replace it at Ottawa. Such,
alas, is rather far from being
the case. a

~ UNBROMISING RECORD
fnflation - and’ ‘iunemploy: 7

ment | ‘have. both’. - doubled
since. 1968; Qur trade.

balance with. other countries we

is deeply into the red.
Bilingualism has'| roved to |
be a: illion-dollar : Sco and |

“the country. is now gra pling
with a unity crisis un

_of when its present French ~
“Canadian prime minister —

_ first- took power. Meaowhile,

we -also. have an 89-cent_ |

Gellar, 2 bureauctacy out of.

control anda px micé-Siate law

authorizing the - opening. of
private mail.

N

wats, hardly “the. kind Of -
record on which a 10-year-old. °

_ goverment - in 2 genuine i.

liamentary " femocracy
Fould have much e

’ tion of winning a majority for -
- a fourth term of office. Butin: —
Canada -

that. could «
happen t this summer. -

well

It “could . “hap n.
‘because’ fori
Canadians have any:
about the costl
the Trudeau a ciitetection
nor because they have any

‘not

. . parliamentary. democracy '--
” which started: its long and.
- illustrious: history’ more than —

FEAR OF CHANGE

“Once a majority of vetoes

vb en eet : askine that asnac
(. SSL Wyuws

seven centuries ago when

__ King John Signed
nation’s affairs, there might: C g John Signed the Magna

arta -- is already half-dead.

~ it means that the electorate

has opted, however

two evils”.

- The other. “evil” bein

_ fact, the very. lifebloo of
2 Hite FOSBILITY democracy:
Be Che NG IBILITY . OF

great faith that a further four — ] |

years of the same will bring
about any s y improve-
ment in our: ortunes. .

It could happen purely and
simply because we seem to
have ‘ost’ sight of the vital
role of the Opposition in the

/‘Barhame liamentary system

‘to cherish. *Time an
apain, when one discusses

e forthcoming election with
sincere and concerned  citi-
here many of them with no
particuiar Rie pany, they
ru ee or his ey
‘come back with. the same
quaver “‘What’s the alter-
native?.”

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- More dangerous. ‘by ‘far:
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