fuss (over a trifling matter) n.: foofaraw
As political plums go, it was not particularly juicy: the establishment of a minor international agency with 30 jobs attached. Even so, Environment Minister Sheila Copps managed to turn what should have been a straightforward decision and a routine announcement last week into a familiar Canadian foofaraw. At issue was Copps’s choice of Montreal over 24 other Canadian cities in competition for a $5-million-a year environmental watchdog agency. (E. Kaye Fulton, “The Sound and the Fury: A Regional Dogfight Explodes after a NAFTA Agency Goes to Montreal,” Maclean’s, 4/11/1994, p. 16.)
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