Federal Member Dept: After she was apprehended in 1970, a military prosecutor described her as the “Joan of Arc of the insurgency,” although Ms. Rousseff has denied any taking part in actual violence. For instance, before one spectacular robbery, she told a Brazilian newspaper she didn’t manage the operation’s money as police reports suggest – but only purchased a Volkswagen for the cause, according to Globe And Mail. The Prime Minister, eager to diversify Canada’s trade beyond the ailing U.S. economy, needs to cement a better working relationship with Brazil, one of the so-called BRIC countries – that include Russia, India and China, and a rising player on the world stage and arrested by the Brazilian state in the early 1970s, she was viciously tortured and then jailed for nearly three years for her brief revolutionary career. Ms. Rousseff was forbidden from political activity for nine years, but got back into the game in the 1980s. Mr. Harper, by comparison, worked at Imperial Oil after high school before heading to the relatively safe confines of a Canadian university to study. He subsequently found a role working for a federal member of Parliament. As
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