The ho-hum election:
Bishop, Jordan
prison background? What is America's soul worth? Scotia, New Brunswick and the West. Some observers saw the The skaters and skiers will depart; the handcuffed young ...
...Newwill spend their last dime to board the one-a-day bus to a foundlanders smiled and noted wryly that the winning NDP distant place called Lake Placid...
...they complied only when threatened with massive layoffs...
...The rest was with a refreshing difference...
...A contest based on the by-elections they appear to have smiled on the Liberals...
...A Tory in Quebec is in much the same unprecedented eleven and one-fourth percent in an effort to position as a llepublican in Alabama in 1932...
...still very much on the defensive...
...for the first four commandments, having were automatically covered: God Agnes Grade School...
...Yes, it can be if enough American citizens express their except in Cape Breton Island, where they failed to take a seat...
...April the call for federal elections was to come any day, In Prince Edward Island, Premier Alex Campbell resigned, any week...
...The fact is that the Tory image remains inestimably of spending it...
...Of several minds: John Garvey anti-climactic, and after a prayer to the Holy Spirit we were trotted off to church and into the box, one at a time, where we made the same confessions we had made for months on end...
...It must have been designed to intricate as brocade (red brocade, in did (as one writer said a few years ago, it make sure, that if you hadn't had a bad fact...
...The francophone Parti Acadien failed to take a seat but did better than ever before in the popular vote, mostly at the expense of the Liberal Report from Canada opposition...
...The Tories, many of them why they bother at all...
...In the school my children atheads down on the desk, arms folded for and we heard the wonderful miserly tend, for example, confession is handled a pillow, eyes closed for privacy, while asound of the word "covet...
...At eight or for over thirty years, and as consistently returned a majority of nine percent unemployment, the program runs a large deficit...
...So even this modest redistribution of wealth had in New Brunswick, and New Democrats in Saskatchewan...
...During this exercise we put our wives-we all knew what that meant- routines...
...American readers are familiar with the vagaries of committee, but the changes were railroaded through the House opinion polls and the ambiguous impact of such things as just before Christmas...
...the handcuffed young hypothesis of a wave of anti-governmental feeling supported men will arrive...
...The to do with idolatry, profanity, missing couldn't blame you for confessing too phrase didn't mean thoughts of ven- Mass, servile work on Sunday, and dis- much...
...precarious position...
...Liberals to the federal Parliament...
...The Liberals lost heavily in Metro Toronto, international problems in anticipation of his becoming Prime where they had hoped to hold, and lost as predicted in Nova Minister this year...
...geance or murder...
...Had the elections been called last October, Commonweal: 166 the Tories would almost certainly have been returned, perhaps conservatism and budget cuts to impress the electorate, the even with a majority...
...And for a century their low-income families by the election of a New Democrat in Newfoundland...
...In the by-elections they lackluster leader, bumbled his way through a trip around the were w;ped out everywhere except Quebec, where they cap- world in January, ostensibly to give him some exposure to tured one seat...
...We had a lull through the seventh was funky), but I think most of us are thought at the time the reading began, and eighth commandments...
...THE HO-HUM ELECTION Postal workers were legislated back to work following a EXPLORING THE NORTH POLLS short but bitter strike and open defiance of the legislated solution to the strike...
...The empha30 March 1979: 167...
...increased unemployment, and continued high inflation...
...That has gone...
...free enterprisers who do not believe in governmental manageAs for Rene Levesque and the Parti Quebecois, they can for ment of the economy, are attacking the government for misthe moment look to the future with some confidence...
...If federal elections were called for Prince Edward Island, that may be enough to keep them in that time the by-elections would not be necessary...
...Graham H. Hodges is pastor of Emmanuel Con- time has come...
...then there happy that our children are not going you would certainly have had several by was the ninth, about other people's through the same obsessive, legalistic the end...
...they had the polls, family allowances and restrictive changes in unemployment fifteen by-elections and three provincial elections to work on, insurance, all amounting to a two-billion-dollar cut in the as well as a dramatic fall in the value of the Canadian dollar, federal budget...
...The management of the economy...
...Polls came and went, rumors lived and died, leaving an already weak Liberal government in an even more summer came and speculation began about fall elections...
...Traditionally, the Liberals have suptions in Canada seldom provide any real indication of federal ported generous transfer payments and an unemployment intrends-perhaps the best example is Ontario, where voters surance program that worked very well for the four percent have consistently returned a strong conservative government unemployment rates for which it was designed...
...redirected to a purpose truly in keeping with Olympic tradi- The Tories swept the provincial elections in Nova Scotia, tion...
...Jordan Bishop, a regular contributor, teaches at the ColNow that the ruling Liberals have chosen the way of fiscal lege of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia...
...Even Joe Clark seems to stimulate the economy...
...That date office for some time...
...Pundits were flooded with data...
...Joe Clark has come out in favor of a larger peaked too soon, although the Tories still lead in the polls...
...came and went and the by-elections were on...
...Can this grim arrangement be candidate had enjoyed the support of the fisherman's union...
...In most cases-and 1978 was This will be an election year for the federal Liberals, and no exception-they provide electors with a chance to express while the polls have lessened the Tory lead, the Liberals are disapproval of a government with no risk of unseating it...
...October elections With the Tories and the press hot on their heels, the federal were called for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Saskatche- Liberals have adopted a conservative style, featuring cuts in wan...
...one wonders restore the fortunes of the dollar...
...In the upper chamber, one Liberal unemployment and falling currency values...
...Clark at deficit budgeting...
...people saved it instead months...
...Trudeau and boredom with Mr...
...Those of us who have reexamination of conscience which was pure touches, and with our eyes closed mained Catholic despite everything may read out to us once a month in the sixth the whole deck of sins took on a detail as not regret having gone through what we grade...
...This, of course, was why elections were Tories have apparently decided in favor of a radical new look not called, and it is now beginning to look as if Mr...
...In real solution is in sight...
...Another anti-Liberal vote," said jubilant Tories...
...budget deficit as a stimulus to the flagging economy...
...to go, although it was cut back, not phased out...
...gregational Church, Watertown, N.Y...
...Except for the federal government, this is Three provincial elections were due...
...Both words, "entertain" and into the sixth: now we got to the meat, as amusement, or loathing, or nostalgia, "dwell," had a nice salacious air...
...concern to Congresspersons, Senators, and President Carter...
...The thesis of a conservative reaction was badly upheld by the comfortable victory of Alan Blakeney's New Democratic government in Saskatchewan...
...only of Trudeau's Liberals by "les Anglais," but also of JORDAN BISHOP Quebec itself...
...If this were not enough, the It is now a matter of political survival-very few unemployed three provincial governments at issue were held by three dif- persons make campaign contributions, and their political clout ferent political parties: Liberals in Nova Scotia, Conservatives is negligible...
...In to be filled by mid-October...
...Provincial elec- Senator voted against it...
...Here we heard about lustful few of us are sorry that those days have member an excruciatingly explicit looks, immodest dress, lewd books, im- gone forever...
...The Bank of Canada has raised its rates to an alien to Quebec...
...By-elections are also difficult...
...In New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield's Tories were returned to power with the loss of a few seats...
...The diminutive New Democratic caucus in Ottawa atAs indicators of political fortune, all of these sources are tempted to block the changes in unemployment insurance in dicey...
...It was always roughly BAD THOUGHTS accurate...
...For for Mr...
...While we you "entertained" or "dwelled on" got downright interesting as we waded may regard that part of the past with them...
...The bitterness remained, and while the mails continued to move over Christmas and into the new year, no THE YEAR 1978 was to be an election year in Canada...
...Joe Clark, the Tories' It was a hard month for the Liberals...
...Some observers saw the The skaters and skiers will depart...
...Clark...
...you learned how to tone down WHAT WORRIES ME IS BLANDNESS the most shameful things by being a bit modest about them and sandwiching them in between relatively innocuous sins, and if you exaggerated the number " AD THOUGHTS" meant one list of specific sins was read out-boring of times you had sinned you figured you thing when I was a boy in St...
...I re- it were...
...Meanwhile, Levesque and his party, this would represent a rejection not hockey is more exciting...
...In the end it may of federalism rejected by English Canada in a Tory sweep of come down to a measure of the comparative strength of dislike the country accompanied by a Liberal sweep in Quebec...
...There were a number the last Liberal government in Canada, and can survive a vote of by-elections on the back burner: fifteen vacant federal seats of confidence only with the tie-breaking vote of the speaker...
...then it picked up as Hundreds of thousands of Catholics ing to do with sex, which were sinful if we moved through the violent fifth, and went through this sort of thing...
...This is not an anti-governmental vote, but an anti-Liberal GRAHAM H. HODGES vote," said smiling Tories from coast to coast...
...Trudeau's (The Rev...
...The One thing appears certain in the wake of the October by- Liberals have cut the federal sales tax -the one that no one elections: the Tories' hopes of building a constituency in ever sees-from twelve to nine percent to see whether that will Quebec have little or no foundation...
...PQ does not take part in federal elections, but in the October There are in fact few real issues...
...it meant thoughts hav- obedience to parents...
...Noth- personality of the two leaders is as uncertain as is the attempt to ing in fact wbuld suit them better than to have Trudeau's brand discover who is on what side of what issue...
...As the country awaits spring Quebec Liberal Party saw a short spurt of new life and blood elections with a certain air of resignation and acute boredom, with the election of Claude Ryan as leader...
...Last year an Ottawa-financed reductalkk less about the future of his party in Quebec in recent tion in provincial sales tax failed in this...
...The the game goes on...
Vol. 106 • March 1979 • No. 6
