In one debate with Mr Schaffer, he admitted not knowing that Paul Martin is premier of Canada (a surprising lapse, since Coors is currently merging with Canada's Molson).

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The opposition is led by Ralph Klein, the conservative premier of Alberta, Canada's main oil producer.

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If he pulls it off, he will become Canada's first provincial premier of Indian origin.

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This week the province's premier, Glen Clark, called for Canada's negotiating team to be a joint federal-provincial one.

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Scheduled EU summits with Canada and India were called off because the Italian premier was indisposed.

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Untrue, says the provincial premier, Glen Clark, waving a letter from one of Canada's leading constitutional experts, Peter Hogg, of York University in Toronto.

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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.

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