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		This is because the north of Canada, with its harsh Arctic and sub-Arctic climates, is sparsely inhabited.
		Canada’s two greatest rivers are the St. Lawrence, which drains the Great Lakes and empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Mackenzie, which empties into the Arctic Ocean and drains a large part of northwestern Canada.
		Canada is also the world’s second largest producer of pulp, the third largest producer of sawn lumber, and the world’s largest exporter of softwood lumber.
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	Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention of 1968 elected Pierre Elliott Trudeau as the new leader of the Liberal Party.
		Liberal leader and Prime Minister Lester Pearson announced on December 14, 1967 that he would be retiring in April 1968.
		Chrétien won the Liberal leadership in 1990, in part by claiming to be the heir to Trudeau's vision and policies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_convention,_1968 (3570 words)

	Wikinfo \| Politics of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal system, a parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions.
		Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada is the repository of executive power, which she does not exercise herself.
		In 1976 the Parti Québécois won the provincial election in Quebec with a 41.4 per cent to 33.8 per cent margin over the Parti libéral du Québec, and in a 1980 referendum the Parti Québécois sought a mandate from the people of Quebec to negotiate new terms of association with the rest of Canada.
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	CBC News In Depth: Liberal Party
		The party had been split along Martin and Chretien lines almost since Chretien became leader, just as the party had been split between supporters of Chretien and John Turner in the 1980s, when Chretien waged his own battle for the leadership of the party.
		It was the beginning of Liberal misfortunes in the West, as the party came to be seen as one that was obsessed with central Canadian issues, especially appeasing Quebec.
		Liberal accomplishments from that period include medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Canada Assistance Plan for a national welfare policy, the guaranteed income supplement, the liberalization of divorce and the end of capital punishment.
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	Parti libéral du Canada (Québec) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because of the liberal minority government, the budgets he introduced had to be acceptable to at least one of the opposition parties.
		Rebuilding the party was a difficult process, although Turner took advantage of the numerous scandals and difficulties plaguing the Conservatives.
		This website is the property of the Liberal Party of Canada (Québec) and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without express written permission.
	www.qc.liberal.ca /en/histoire/pml03.aspx (1146 words)

	Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party's biennial convention has been scheduled to occur from November 29 to December 1, 2006 in Montreal's Palais des congrès, followed by the party's leadership convention at the same venue occurring December 2 to December 3, 2006.
		The party constitution lays out a process by which the party leader is chosen by several thousand delegates, who are elected by riding associations, women's associations, and Young Liberal clubs in proportion to the number of votes they receive at a delegate selection meeting of the general membership of that association.
		Upon his return to Canada in 2005, he became a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Ignatieff was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Etobicoke—Lakeshore in the 2006 election.
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	edmontonsun.com - Canada - Ignatieff enters Liberal race
		Liberal MP and leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff smiles as he walks through the crowd after announcing he will run for the leadership of the federal Liberal party, Friday April 7, 2006 in Toronto.
		Throughout the election campaign, Ignatieff bristled at suggestions he was in the Liberal on-deck circle despite escalating chatter of a leadership bid.
		A poster in his campaign office of Pierre Trudeau, whose 1968 Liberal leadership campaign Ignatieff worked for as a youth organizer, only fuelled speculation that first began last March at the party convention.
	www.edmontonsun.com /News/Canada/2006/04/07/1524789.html (452 words)

	in their own words
		Ignatieff traces his roots in the party back to his role as a youth delegate for Trudeau in 1968, but he has been far removed from the political process until claiming a nomination and winning a seat in the last election.
		With a Russian name, Ignatieff qualifies as a multicultural candidate for the Liberal leadership and it would be a first for the party.
		Liberals believe this, and his supporters think Ignatieff is the leader to make it happen.
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	Timeline 1968
		1968 Mar 17, In Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, Manny Babbit was wounded.
		1968 J. Anthony Lukas (d.1997 at 64) won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Two Worlds of Linda Fitzpatrick." It was about a teenage girl from an affluent Connecticut family beaten to death with her hippie boyfriend after turning to a life of drugs in the East Village.
		1968 Cerro Negro, a volcano in Nicaragua, erupted.
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