In spite of efforts by the government to focus public attention on the economy and to turn Canadians away from constitutional navel gazing to the outward challenges of the global economy, it was the election of Bill Clinton to the American presidency that set the mood for political change at home.

At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin!”

A sudden cloudbust up in the hills during the night […] swelled the creek

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