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Article: Jean Chretien's grand design: Canada.(prime minister wants to reshape capital city of Ottawa)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1998
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OTTAWA
EVERY 20 years or so a Canadian prime minister nearing the end of his time at the top has a yen to leave his mark, physically, on the national capital. John Diefenbaker, Conservative prime minister from 1957-63, did it. So did the Liberal Pierre Trudeau (1968-79 and 1980-84). Now Jean Chretien, in office since 1993, sees his chance-and many of the capital's citizens are eager not to let him take it. Diefenbaker's legacy to Ottawa was the improvement of Sussex Drive, to become the scene of state drives between Parliament and the prime minister's and governor-general's residences. Trudeau, a French-speaking Quebecker, back in the heyday of multiculturalism ...