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 | | The Right Honourable Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC, CC, CH (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 3, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Quebec refused to agree to the new constitution, the source of continued acrimony between Quebec City and Ottawa. |
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