... an entire generation of Canadians." Trudeau inspired millions of Canadians, being of French-Scottish background he was able to touch the entire population. Pierre often had very polarized opinions on things, either being strongly for or strongly against issues, this lead to controversy at times. Trudeau also played ... got worse. To prove that they meant business, five days later on October 10th FLQ abducted Quebec minister of labour and senior cabinet minister Pierre Laporte. This struck fear into the people of not just Montreal, but all of Québec. This gave the public the impression t...

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... pen and hair trigger lip, he let people know where he was coming from like no politician they'd ever seen at the town pump."1 Pierre's family, during his formative years was considered quite wealthy, as his Quebecois father, Charles-Emile, had amassed a considerable fortune in the petroleum industry ... capital punishment and upholding the rights of those with same sex preferences. In 1968, the Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson announced his retirement. Young Pierre seized upon the opportunity and ran for the leadership of the Liberal party. He was sworn in a prime minister on April 20,...

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... in the light of the kidnapping of British diplomat James Cross and a Quebec Cabinet minister Pierre Laporte by the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). This act had extraordinary powers of arrest, censorship and detention. Pierre Laporte was murdered by his captors and controversy continued about the implementation of the act with ... in his Montreal mansion. The following is an excerpt of a Toronto Star editorial on Trudeau's 80th birthday: " for those of us who were there when Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister it was the magic of the man that is etched and cherished in the mind's eye...

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... English controversies that he would have to face in the future as Prime minister. Despite his alienation of the western provinces, Pierre Elliot Trudeau should be remembered for his strong stand against Quebec separation to keep Canada united in the midst of political controversy and ... upheaval caused by Quebec separatists. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born in 1919 in Montreal to a wealthy family, the son of a French Canadian businessman and a mother of Scottish ... FLQ as "Robin Hoods robbing to give to the poor."(Gwyn p.108) Then again, on October 10, the FLQ kidnapped "Quebec Labor M...

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Unlike the United States, with its generalissimo politics-Washington, Jackson, Grant, Eisehower- the martial arts have been conspicuously absent from Canadian politics. But there in one exception: in 1968 Pierre Elliot Trudeau became the first Canadian leader to bring the gunslinger-Lone Ranger ethos to Canadian politics. Trudeau introduced to Canada the refined art of single combat; it was the ... middle-of-the-road politics has produced leaders who were careful and middle-of-the-road as well, until 1968 when Canada and the world was introduced to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. He ha...

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Pierre Trudeau Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada, was once described as "A French Canadian proud of his identity and culture, yet a biting critic of French-Canadian society, determined to destroy its mythology ... newly appointed Premier of Quebec, Rene Levesque, warned that there must be a new Canada within five years or Quebec will quit confederation. It was not until 1965 that a man named Pierre Trudeau entered politics. It is at this point in his anthology that I was able to surmise the radical and unorthodox political convictions that the soon-to-be Prime Minister would .....

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... rest of Canada to acknowledge the seriousness to which Quebecois regard the issue. Their inability to fully acknowledge the issue severely trivializes a cause Quebecois deem most important. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau believed that a mood of intransigence ^provides little room to maneuver between a single constitution which would affect all Canadians equally, and the formation of a completely independent Quebec state with few ... ...

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... office in a much more favourable light compared with most Canadians. The Prime Minister's first major initiative was the Meech Lake Accord, which attempted to bring Quebec into the constitution. When Pierre Trudeau was the PM, he revamped Canada's constitution from London, England and the monarchy and enshrined in it a Charter of Rights and Freedoms for all Canadians. However, Quebec was left ... ...

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