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  Pierre Trudeau - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As prime minister, he patriated the Canadian Constitution from the British Parliament to Canada and incorporated in it the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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.
Quebec refusal to agree to the new constitution is the source of continued acrimony between the federal and Quebec governments.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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." Trudeau also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr.
As Prime Minister, Trudeau espoused participatory democracy as a means of making Canada a "Just Society." He vigorously defended the newly implemented universal health care and regional development programs as means of making society more just.
His intelligence, energy, charisma, and confidence as Prime Minister are often cited as reasons for his abundant popularity, but his efforts to awaken Canadian patriotism and inspire pride in Canada are a lasting contribution that is recognized across the political spectrum.
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 Nicknames of politicians and personalities in Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A custom of Quebecers is to give nicknames to their politicians (and some personalities), quite especially their Premiers.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984): Ti-Pet ("Lil' Fart") or Pet.
Mulroney was born and raised in Baie-Comeau, a city in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec.
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 Prime_minister_nicknaming_in_quebec info here at en.album-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A trick of Quebecers is to transmit nicknames to their politicians (and some personalities), in reality chiefly their Premiers.
Prime Minister nicknaming in Quebec Nicknames of Quebec Premiers Nicknames of Quebec Premiers Maurice Duplessis (1936 – 1939 und 1944-1959): Le Chef ("The Leader" or "The Chief").
Prime Minister nicknaming in Quebec Similar nicknames Similar nicknames Louis St. Laurent (Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957): Oncle Louis ("Uncle Louis").
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Pierre Trudeau
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."?title=Trudeau also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr.
As Prime Minister, Trudeau espoused participatory democracy as a means of making Canada a "Just Society."?title=He vigorously defended the newly implemented universal health care and regional development programs as means of making society more just.
His intelligence, energy, charisma, and confidence as Prime Minister are often cited as reasons for his abundant popularity, but his efforts to awaken Canadian patriotism and inspire pride in Canada are a lasting contribution that is recognized across the political spectrum.
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 Jean Charest Encyclopedia Article @ ElectionHype.com (Election Hype)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was appointed Minister of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport in 1988, but had to resign from cabinet in 1990 after improperly speaking to a judge about a case regarding the Canadian Track and Field Association.
After Mulroney's retirement as PC leader and prime minister, Charest was a candidate for the leadership of the party at the 1993
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Science and Technology in Campbell's short-lived cabinet.
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 Pierre Trudeau - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
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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 Charles de Gaulle -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prime Minister Paul Reynaud promoted him provisional brigadier general (thus his title of général de Gaulle).
Although the Algerian issue was settled the prime minister, Michel Debré, still resigned over the final settlement and was replaced with Georges Pompidou.
In the context of a population boom unseen in France since the 18th century, the government under prime minister Georges Pompidou oversaw a rapid transformation and expansion of the French economy.
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 Jacques Parizeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jacques Parizeau (born August 9, 1930) is an economist and noted Quebec sovereigntist who served as Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 28, 1996).
After the PQ was elected to office in the 1976 Quebec election, the new premier, René Lévesque, appointed Parizeau as Minister of Finance.
Parizeau was replaced by Lucien Bouchard as PQ leader and Quebec premier on January 29, 1996.
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 Pierre_elliott_trudeau info here at en.along-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Throughout the 1950s, Trudeau was a inaugural integer in the prevention to the repressive apothegm of Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis as the pappy 'n editor of Cité Libre, a dissident reminiscence that lifted grant the intellectual seat for the Quiet Revolution.
As justice minister, Pierre Trudeau was pledged for removing equities against homosexuality from the Criminal Code of Canada, famously remarking: "The stretch we take here's that there's no plunk for the footing in the chambers of the nation." Trudeau stationary liberalized divorce laws, 'n clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr.
As Prime Minister, Trudeau espoused participatory democracy as a means of making Canada a "Just Society." He vigorously defended the newly implemented universal eupepsia charge 'n regional reinforcing programs as means of making humanity more just.
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 Pierre Trudeau - Enpsychlopedia
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 Québec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr.
On March 4, 1971, the prime minister married Vancouver socialite Margaret Sinclair, a woman who, at 22, was less than half Trudeau's age.
The passage of time has only slightly softened the strong antipathy he inspired among his opponents, however, and Prime Minister Chretien's recent effort to name a Yukon mountain after him was quickly dubbed "the Liberals' PET rock" in some quarters.
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 Charles de Gaulle - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Outraged, the Government of Canada under Prime Minister Lester Pearson, a soldier who served in World War I and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancelled the remainder of De Gaulle's tour and he returned to France where he was also heavily criticised by a large part of the French media.
When he was prime minister or president he always refused to promote himself to higher ranks.
He was nickname colonel Motor by his fellow officers in the French military, who used the English word "motor" on purpose to caricature de Gaulle as a reckless partisan of tanks.
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 Charles de Gaulle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
De Gaulle's stance was nonetheless welcomed by a part of the Quebec population favoring that province's sovereignty.
Outraged, the Government of Canada under Prime Minister Lester Pearson, a soldier who served in World War I and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, claimed that De Gaulle’s speech was "unacceptable", making it clear that De Gaulle was no longer welcome in Canada.
Madame Pauline Vanier, the wife of the then Governor General and de facto Canadian head of state, pressed into De Gaulle's hand a scrap of paper bearing the simple reproach "1940," in reference to the fall of France to the Nazis and Canada's subsequent considerable role and sacrifice in liberating it.
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 Charles de Gaulle Biography
On May 29 the French President, René Coty, appealed to the "most illustrious of Frenchmen" to become the last Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic.
With the Algerian conflict behind, de Gaulle was able to achieve his two main objectives: 1- to reform and develop the French economy, in order to support 2- an independent foreign policy and a strong stance of France on the international stage, the so called "policy of grandeur" (politique de grandeur).
1- In the context of a population boom unseen in France since the 18th century, the government under prime minister Georges Pompidou oversaw a rapid transformation and expansion of the French economy.
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 Baltimore Independent Media Center: Frauds of Islam continue
Did you know he is famous for nicknaming the Stalinists in the Yugo CP "Wahhabis?" That was where I first encountered the term -- in a history of the YCP.
A week before that answer he had not even heard of Mose Pijade before I brought it up, and today he is an authority on a person he failed to even mention with his objective journalistic credibility, while claiming that Serbians are Jew Haters.
Pijade doesn’t suit him obviously because he was the only Jew ever, elected a prime minister during Nazi occupation in Europe on November 29.
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 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
De Gaulle is famously quoted for nicknaming the United Nations le Machin.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancelled the remainder of De Gaulle's tour and he returned to France where he was also heavily criticised by a large part of the French media.
Bernard Chenot enters the cabinet as Minister of Public Health and Population.
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 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
The foreign ministers were requested to forbear his society, and the court was informed that all who were received by him would be excluded from the king's presence.
Of the new ministers Carteret was the only one who knew German, and he soon monopolised the confidence of the king, with whose ambition to play a prominent part in European politics he sympathised (Coxe, Walpole, i.
This was met by the resignation of the rest of the ministers.
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 Charles de Gaulle - Gnorx.com, the free encyclopedia
François Mitterrand, and the Communist Party (which denounced De Gaulle as the agent of a fascist coup).
In the context of a population boom unseen in France since the 18th century, the government under prime minister
Pierre-Henri Teitgen succeeds Menthon as Minister of Justice.
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 Blogger News Network
The Quebec Liberals would have preferred Ignatieff despite his having absolutely no history in Quebec and his hawkish neo-con leanings which generally do not go over well here at all.
I thought this was rather strange, for a candidate whose prime qualification was supposed to be his academic experience and intellect.
Vanessa was sentenced to a mere seven years for her crime and CPS was ordered to pay $5 million for Bruce Jackson and $2.5 million for each of his three brothers.
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 I'm pondering the changing my first name - General [M]ayhem
I can already hear Trudeau, this damn assholish canadian prime minister that I vindicatively speaked about in the past in extremely mean, but still well-deserved ways, laughing in his grave, please be comprehensive.
Imagine when I was 6 and I got a subscription in Quebec of a french Nintendo magazine, how I was proud knowing on how to write my first name right!
I remember my highschool english teacher (who spoke only in english) she could not sound out oh-lee-vyay correctly, so she called me like "Oli, how are you doing today?", as many other english people who could not pronounce all the vowels correctly did.
www.genmay.com /showthread.php?t=546211   (1512 words)

  
 Signs of the Times - Chain - Bizarro World
A STRANGE phenomenon residents are nicknaming the "Castleton triangle" has hit the village.
The blasts hit during the morning rush hour Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has vowed that those responsible for the train bomb attacks in Madrid will be hunted down and punished.
And this: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday dismissed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his Cabinet, saying in a statement on national television he purged the government in preparation for March 14 presidential elections.
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 WeBBsights #11
There are as of yet no plans to add additional ships to the new fleet, however, it is likely to expand in the near future.
While this was going on, CSO Gavin Bishop and Med-1 Lt. Henry Tudor began to be fed up with the nothingness of the Athena and after having a long "arugement" with Captain Phillips, took a runabout and drifted away into space.
After a staff debate where the Prime Directive was brought up and abolished, they accepted, as any good Starfleet officer would do.
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 PJ Gaenir’s Firedocs Collection: Remote Viewing » Reviews & Refs
The man would have to be a Reptilian, running a white woman and immigrant child abduction ring, for feeding to secret Illuminati members as late-night snacks or something, to get any worse.
I maintain that Jacques Villepin, the French Prime Minister guy, is an alien.
It doesn’t matter if the session is totally accurate data or lousy, they still get the humor handle of their dominant overlays.
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