Round 400: Tossup 8

A military scandal in this decade was caused by two peacekeepers’ murder of the teenager Shidane Arone. In this decade, the nickname “B.S. Tax” was given to a proposed overhaul of the new GST. In this decade, Preston Manning and the Reform Party campaigned against a constitutional amendment, the second to propose recognizing one region as a “distinct society.” A federal election in this decade (-5[1])saw the first participation of the Bloc Québécois (“keb-eh-kwah”) and featured an ad that appeared (10[1])to attack a party leader’s (10[1])Bell’s (10[1])palsy. The (-5[1])Charlottetown (10[1])Accord failed in this decade, after which the Progressive Conservatives lost all but two of their seats in Parliament under the leadership of Kim Campbell. For 10 points, name this decade (10[1])in which Canada entered NAFTA. ■END■ (10[1])

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