-I HAVEN'T HAD THE TIME TO DETERMINE TO WHAT SUBMISSION(S) WHAT YOU SEE BELOW WAS A TERM OF REFERENCE.WHEN I DO, I'LL PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION HERE.
-I HAVEN'T HAD THE TIME TO DETERMINE TO WHAT SUBMISSION(S) WHAT YOU SEE BELOW WAS A TERM OF REFERENCE.
WHEN I DO, I'LL PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION HERE.
OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has admitted his argumentative style has soured his relationship with business leaders, adding facetiously that "for some reason they still think I am a Communist, some of them."
God knows, I tried in the earlier years of my administration" to establish a rapport with business, he said in an interview published yesterday in the Washington Post.
But "I just seemed to forget every time that I would sit down with them that I like an argument but that they don't. "My handlers would tear their hair out every time at the businessmen because we would have some...I thought a good seminar or something...and that isn't the way they had seen the business meeting going in."
However, Trudeau said he is getting "critical" support from business for Ottawa's new anti-inflation program aimed at keeping wage and price increases down to 6 and 5 per cent during the next two years. Support from the provinces is also required, Trudeau told syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft.
But "for reasons which I suspect are essentially political, they don't want to appear to get on the federal bandwagon because such a spirit of anti-Ottawa hostility has been developed that they've euchred themselves into a position where people will say: "If Ottawa is so bad, how come you are co-operating with them on this or that program?"
The interview was conducted in Toronto following Trudeau's welcoming speech Monday to delegates at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Kraft writes that the Prime Minister was relaxed and responsive, without "the cadaverous aspect" and cranky manner that characterized many recent appearances.
(text of September 10, 1982 Toronto Star article)
-OKAY.
THERE IS
RESPONSE I RECEIVED TO WHAT YOU FIND IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE: NADA.
THEN CONSIDER WHAT YOU FIND IN THIS SEQUENCE OF WHAT YOU FIND IF
YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE AND
THEN IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP
HERE.
COMING UP AGAIN IS WHAT YOU FIND IF YOU TAKE A BRIEF SIDESTEP HERE.
MAY I POINT OUT HERE, THOUGH, REGARDING THE TERM OF REFERENCE AT THE END OF THIS LINK, IN UPDATING THESE PAGES ON FEBRUARY 25, 2001, THAT MR. BOUCHARD HAS SINCE RETIRED AS PREMIER OF QUEBEC, AND THERE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FLUX IN WHAT WILL ENSUE PERTINENT TO THIS CONCERN? FOR INSTANCE, WHO WILL BE HIS SUCCESSOR AND HOW STRONGLY WILL HE/SHE PUSH THE ISSUE OF QUEBEC SEPARATION?
AS A RESULT, I'M NOT IMMEDIATELY POSTING TO MY AWARD-WINNING WEBSITE A TRANSITIONAL TERM OF REFERENCE ABOUT THAT.
ALL I WILL SAY IS THAT LAST I HEARD, THE LEADING CANDIDATE TO SUCCEED HIM IS AN AVOWED SEPARATIST.
...MAY I ADD TO THIS TERM OF REFERENCE THIS BRIEF PASSAGE FROM MY HOME LIBRARY COPY OF 'COLOMBO'S CANADIAN QUOTATIONS' (COPYRIGHT © 1974 BY J.R. COLOMBO) THE FOLLOWING:
"THE ONLY CONSTANT FACTOR TO BE FOUND IN MY THINKING OVER THE YEARS HAS BEEN OPPOSITION TO ACCEPTED OPINIONS. HAD I APPLIED THIS PRINCIPLE TO THE STOCK MARKET, I MIGHT HAVE MADE A FORTUNE. I CHOSE TO APPLY IT TO POLITICS, AND IT LED ME TO POWER--A RESULT I HAD NOT REALLY DESIRED, OR EVEN EXPECTED."
INCIDENTALLY, THIS BOOK BY MR. COLOMBO ALSO RECORDS THE FOLLOWING (CONSISTENT WITH MY MEMORY OF IT AS OPPOSED TO THE TRANSLATION PROVIDED IN THE BIOGRAPHY PUBLISHED BY THE VANCOUVER SUN AFTER TRUDEAU ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT:
"LE RAISON AVANT LA PASSION. [REASON OVER PASSION; SAID TO BE TRUDEAU'S PERSONAL MAXIM