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Article: Sound chap stumbles. (Quebec politician Robert Bourassa) (International)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 16, 1989
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Sound chap stumbles
WHEN critics say the Liberal premier of Quebec, Mr Robert Bourassa, is one of the dullest of Canadian politicians, his friends retort that he is also the most durable. True to form, when he called a provincial election for September 25th, he decided on an unflamboyant campaign avoiding the big issues of language and separatism and talking instead about increased investment and a new aluminium smelter. This has been the style of Mr Bourassa since he graduated from Oxford and Harvard as an expert in taxation law and stepped into the premiership in 1970 at the age of 36. He lasted six years in that stint and was proudest of the hydroelectric ...