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  Pierre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trudeau was persuaded to run for the Liberal leadership, and ran an energetic campaign that mobilized and inspired many youths who had been influenced by the 1960s counterculture, and who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change.
Trudeau presented a determined public stance during the crisis, answering the question of how far he would go to stop the terrorists with "Just watch me." Five of the FLQ terrorists were flown to Cuba in 1970 as part of a deal in exchange for James Cross' life, but all members were eventually arrested.
Pierre Trudeau was honoured with a state funeral
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 Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Trudeau was persuaded to run for the Liberal leadership and ran an energetic campaign that mobilized and inspired many youths who had been influenced by the 1960s counterculture and saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change.
Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of No Confidence and the party persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau died on September 28, 2000, and is buried in the Trudeau family crypt, St-Remi-de-Napierville Cemetery, Saint-Remi, Quebec.
www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Pierre_Trudeau   (3476 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Trudeau had been sympathetic to Marxist ideas in the 1940s, and in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a supporter of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party.
As justice minister, Pierre Trudeau was responsible for removing laws against homosexuality from the Criminal Code of Canada, famously remarking: "The view we take here is that there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." He also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr.
Trudeau declined to give an interview with the CP when given the honour, but said in a letter to the CP that he was "surprised and pleased".
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pierre_Trudeau   (3344 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
Detractors fault Trudeau for arrogance, deplore economic policies that increased the national debt, and criticize him for increasing a sense of political alienation in western provinces.
As prime minister, Trudeau espoused participatory democracy as a means of making Canada a "Just Society." His desire for greater citizen involvement in government appears to have been frustrated by lack of support within his party, and he later opposed greater involvement for citizens in representative democracy.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pierre_Trudeau   (4176 words)

  
 Grant Schuyler's essay "Pierre Elliott Trudeau"
Trudeau, a Liberal, was a figure so extraordinary among Canadians -- a reserved lot, as the peoples of the earth go -- whether they liked him or not, and many came to detest him -- that he dominated Canadian political life for 15 years.
Trudeau was like a lion gone reluctantly into a cave: from time to time he returned to the center of the nation, and roared his opinion on current issues, especially involving his beloved federalism.
Trudeau was one of the few Canadians, certainly of his time, who had a clear unshakeable vision of the country as a whole.
home.ca.inter.net /~grantsky/trudeau.html   (1522 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Trudeau, Pierre Elliott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT [Trudeau, Pierre Elliott] (Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau), 1919-2000, prime minister of Canada (1968-79, 1980-84), b.
A lawyer and law professor known for championing liberal causes, Trudeau was elected (1965) to the House of Commons as a Liberal and became (1967) concurrently minister of justice and attorney general in Lester Pearson 's government.
Death of (Pierre Elliott) Trudeau: most of PET's projects are buried in the national debt, but his charter will afflict us for decades to come.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/t/trudeaup.asp   (610 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail: Series
Trudeau dared to wear sandals in the House of Commons, was flippant when others were serious and was under the age of 50 when he became leader of the Liberal Party.
Trudeau took office there were Liberals sitting in each provincial legislature in the four western provinces, but when he stepped down in 1984 there were none, just slightly worse than their federal strength, which consisted of two Liberal MPs between Manitoba and Vancouver Island.
Trudeau was still prime minister and in one of his last acts, he rewarded 23 Liberal warhorses, roughly one-sixth of his caucus, with political appointments.
www.theglobeandmail.com /series/trudeau/obit.html   (5175 words)

  
 THE ROSE UPON THE LAPEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Trudeau did send the army in, as the law obliged him to, but did not invoke the War Measures Act, as he was unsure of its necessity, and was also worried about the serious consequences of such an action (Trudeau 137).
Trudeau remained in office for another 2 years, until he decided to resign as prime minister in 1984, with the intention to spend more time with his teenaged sons.
Trudeau was one of the few, and he did it with dignity and grace.
miriam.warp1.net /writing/trudeau.html   (1882 words)

  
 Pierre Elliott Trudeau biography
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born in Montreal, Quebec on October 18, 1919.
Pierre Trudeau would have been proud of his eldest son, who left the podium and broke into tears, his head laid against his father’s coffin.
Pierre Trudeau, the man who fought for unity within the borders of Canada, for peace with every country in the world and for the rights and freedom of all.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on BlinkBits.com
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 LifeSite Special Report - The Real Pierre Trudeau: Father of Canada's Permissive Society
Pierre Trudeau is a hero of the liberal media culture which conveniently insists that morality is a strictly personal matter to be determined by each individual and over which the state and even the church should have little authority.
Trudeau "personally" believed abortion to be wrong, knew it was killing, yet, as far as we know, never apologized for initiating and leading the political actions that led to the massive increase in this killing.
Pierre Trudeau was greatly admired for his admittedly captivating, anti-establishment personality and antics and his great love for his children.
www.lifesite.net /ldn/2000/oct/001003a.html   (2988 words)

  
 The Right Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Trudeau was a strong believer in and advocate of a single Canada, with all nationalities, cultures and languages living in harmony.
Trudeau devoted his efforts during his final term as prime minister to opposing the separatist goals of the Parti Québècois in power in Quebec.
Trudeau needed the co-operation of all the provinces to achieve this.
www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/trudeau.htm   (900 words)

  
 Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Never did I imagine that I could be moved to tears at the death of a politician.
For me one of the most touching tributes paid to Trudeau at the time of his passing was that Fidel Castro honoured Trudeau's memory by personally attending his funeral.
The following is part of the text of a statement released by Fidel Castro on the state funeral of Pierre Trudeau.....
www.clarepark.ca /heroes/trudeau.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Trudeau: 1919-2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Swinger, Philosopher, Prime Minister - CBC Archives
In the days following his death, the Canadian media have been talking about little else besides the former prime minister's life, his career and his impact on Canada.
The New York Times' lengthy obituary declared, "Pierre Trudeau ran his country with a panache that was aggressively and un-Canadianly immodest." And the Boston Globe called him "easily the most famous and controversial Canadian leader of this century."
A Report Newsmagazine (Alberta edition) article from Oct. 23, 2000, was titled "I'm sorry, but Trudeau's death did not leave me grief-stricken, and I'm not alone." In it, writer Ted Byfield discussed the utter lack of mourning for Trudeau in Alberta.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-2192-13259/politics_economy/trudeau/clip21   (718 words)

  
 CBC Television - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
CBC television stations in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, branded as CBC North, tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages such as Inuktitut, Gwich'in, and Dene.
Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
In northwest Washington State, CBC OandO station CBUT is transmitted to almost one million Comcast cable subscribers in Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Olympia, and Everett.
godseye.com /wiki/index.php/CBC_Television   (1744 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For other uses of the term, see Pierre Elliott Trudeau (disambiguation).
Pierre Elliott Trudeau PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
When Trudeau took office in 1968 Canada had a debt of billion, when he left office in 1984, that debt stood at 0 billion - an increase of 1100%.
www.redwoodcitycaus.com /section/Pierre_Elliott_Trudeau   (4359 words)

  
 Peter Mansbridge Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
Now in his fourth decade with CBC News, Mansbridge has provided comprehensive coverage of some of the most significant stories of our time, and is our most respected source for comprehensive coverage of the key developments in Canada and around the world.
Mansbridge has also anchored in-studio coverage of such international events as the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the events surrounding September 11, 2001.
His on the scene coverage of such stories as the fall of the Berlin Wall, numerous royal and papal visits, and the 50th anniversary of D-Day have set the standard by which other journalists are judged.
www.thelavinagency.com /canada/petermansbridge.html   (543 words)

  
 NWI The National Host: Peter Mansbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Now in his fourth decade with CBC News, Mansbridge has provided comprehensive coverage of some of the most significant stories in Canada and around the world.
Nationally, he has anchored live coverage of nine federal elections, six leadership conventions, referendums in 1992 (Charlottetown) and 1995 (Quebec), the 1997 floods in Manitoba, and the Quebec and Ontario ice storms of 1998, and the six emotional days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
He's anchored on-the-scene coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, numerous royal and papal visits, and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
www.nwitv.com /national/peter.html   (436 words)

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