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CHRÉTIEN, Jean

2005-0289

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1998-06-22

Scrums with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Minister of Industry John Manley, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Stéphane Dion, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons Don Boudria, and Defence Minister Arthur Eggleton on the occasion of a Cabinet meeting in the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa. Included subjects are the negotiations with the provinces on health care funding and the choices made by the provinces with their money, raising the base level of transfer payments to provinces to $12.5 billion and the tax points already given to the provinces, the escalation in the conflict between India and Pakistan, the economic problems of Japan and its impact on the Canadian economy, possible air strikes on Serbia, the merger of two major brokers firms which could break anti-trust laws, the role of the two official languages and the state of French Canadian communities outside Quebec, and some trouble with the construction of military ships. <20mn>

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