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Article: Canada - Wild west.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2000
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VANCOUVER
WHEN, last August, Glen Clark became the third British Columbian premier in succession to be driven from office by scandal, nobody in Canada's far-western province was especially surprised. British Columbian politics has long been an undignified brawl: not since 1983 has any of the province's premiers completed a full term of office. Mr Clark's New Democratic Party (NDP) hoped to use his departure as an opportunity to clean up the province's besmirched political image. Yet, even before the delegates had assembled for a party convention on February 20th to pick a permanent successor to Mr Clark, the dirt was flying again.
The leadership ...