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  Pierre Elliot Trudeau-biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was born to Charles Emile Trudeau and Grace Elliot Trudeau on the 18 th of October in 1919.
Grace Elliot Trudeau was a housewife of Scottish and English descent.
Trudeau is famous for “the pirouette”; while the queen was signing the Canadian Constitution he was so happy that it was being signed that he did a pirouette behind her back.
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 AllRefer.com - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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.
Trudeau succeeded Pearson as Liberal party leader and prime minister in 1968.
Trudeau retired that same year, having played a pivotal role in the political development of Canada in the 20th cent.
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 Elliott Waves - pierre elliot trudeau funeral
Trudeau died on September 28, 2000, and is buried in the Trudeau family crypt, St-Remi-de-Napierville Cemetery, Saint-Remi, Quebec.
Trudeau wrote and spoke out against both the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord arguing that they would weaken federalism and the Charter of Rights if implemented--his opposition was a critical factor leading to the defeat of the two proposals.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau died on September 28, 2000, and is buried in the Trudeau family crypt, St-Remi-de-Napierville Cemetery, Saint-Remi, Quebec.
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 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.
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 pierre elliot truedeau page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Trudeau's father was French and his mother Scottish so at home he grew up speaking both languages.
Trudeau liked to joke around a lot but he also knew that education was very important.
Trudeau and his two friends were known as "the three wise men".
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 Pierre Elliot Trudeau-Why Notable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Pierre Elliot Trudeau is notable because of his policies which affect Canada as a country.
Trudeau also made the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom in 1982 to protect the rights of Canadians from the actions and policies of all the levels of the government.
Trudeau also appointed many women such as the First Speaker of the House (Jeanne Sauvé 1980), First Speaker of the Senate (Muriel McQueen Fergusson 1972) and the First Female Governor General (Jeanne Sauvé 1984).Pierre Elliot Trudeau spent his political career in helping Canada strengthen in unity and federalism.
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 Pictures, Photographs of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Former Prime Minister of Canada (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (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.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Pierre Trudeau was a flamboyant and charismatic intellectual.
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 signifier of generational change.
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 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Pierre Trudeau
Born October 18, 1919 in Montreal, Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau was the son of a Francophone father and Scottish mother.
Trudeau arrived back in Canada a changed man. Armed with the sharp intellect he had honed at school and the cosmopolitan views he'd acquired while travelling abroad, he was now drawn to politics.
Trudeau was a harsh critic of the ultra-conservative Union Nationale regime headed by Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis, and when he helped to found the progressive intellectual journal Cité Libre, he could air his grievances and anti-nationalist sentiments in print.
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 Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Born in Montréal QC to a French-Canadian businessman and a mother of Scottish ancestry, Trudeau trained in the law and became a journalist while being educating at Université de Montréal, Harvard, and the London School of Economics.
The most significant parts of the Constitution Act were the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which prohibited discrimination against individuals based on their ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexuality, and the legal protection of the rights of minorities to their language and education in that language.
Trudeau went ahead with the Constitution Act despite the opposition of the Province of Québec, which refused to agree to it.
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 Cambridge, Ontario, Canada - Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Trudeau should be remembered most for the great things he did for all of us.
Trudeau, "Pierre Elliot Trudueau put the 'Canadian' into the Canadian id. Other things that may be said are: Pierre Elliot Trudeau was the father of Modern Canada.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was the father of the Canadian Constitution.
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 Pierre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trudeau attended the prestigious Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (a private French Roman Catholic school) where he was affiliated with the ideas of clerical fascism and Quebec nationalism.
Trudeau later appealed the ban, and it was rescinded.
Pierre Trudeau was honoured with a state funeral.
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 AlternativeApproaches.com: Pierre Elloit Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
When Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada for sixteen and a half years, died on September 28th of last year, I was more disappointed than surprised that his passing received scant attention from the American media.
In 1970, Trudeau came down hard on the violent separatist group the FLQ (Quebec Liberation Front) in an incident that’s become known as “the October crisis.” When the FLQ kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and the Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte, Trudeau didn’t hesitate to invoke the War Measures Act.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau set the tone in international politics for an entire generation and, in many ways, embraced an alternative approach to world leadership.
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 Pierre Elliot Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Born to Charles Emile and Grace Trudeau on October 18, 1919 in Montreal, Quebec was future Prime Minister of Canada; Joseph Phillippe Pierre Yves Elliot Trudeau.
Pierre Trudeau attended numerous schools for law and economics throughout his youth.
In November of 1997, Trudeau suffered the loss of his closest friend; one year later, November of 1998, his son Michel died and he was diagnosed with parkinsons and prostate cancer.
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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.
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 grade 5 pierre elliot trudeau after politics
Pierre Elliot Trudeau retired as Prime Minister of Canada in 1984 after taking a nice, long walk along main street in Ottawa in the middle of a raging blizzard.
Trudeau suffered from Parkinson's disease but prostate cancer was the cause of his death.
Trudeau may be gone, but he will never be forgotten.
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 CM Magazine: Pierre Elliot Trudeau.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Sauerwein traces Trudeau's quick rise in the ranks of the Pearson government and the resulting "Trudeaumania." The highs and lows of his prime ministerial career, such as the Official Languages Act, October Crisis, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are outlined.
Trudeau's flaws are also discussed, including his ego, penchant for sarcastic comments, and his stormy relationship with Margaret Trudeau.
Only four fl and white photographs are included: the 1967 Pearson Cabinet with Trudeau, John Turner, and Jean Chretien; Trudeau signing autographs at the height of Trudeaumania; Margaret Trudeau; and Queen Elizabeth II signing the Constitution.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol11/no13/pierreelliottrudeau.html   (387 words)

  
 Pierre Elliot Trudeau's Policital Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In 1943, Trudeau was called to the Quebec Bar; and to the Ontario Bar in 1967.
Trudeau chose not to serve as leader of the Opposition and announced his retirement in 1979.
Trudeau was convinced to return to leader of the Liberal Party and remained Prime Minister until 1984 when he announced his full retirement from the political group.
www.lakeheadschools.ca /Hammarskjold/business/trudeau/trudeau2.htm   (308 words)

  
 Elliott Waves - 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 was convinced to return as Liberal Party Leader and won the election the following year.
Trudeau needed the co-operation of all the provinces to achieve this.
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 The Prime Ministers of Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau Intro
Pierre Trudeau went into politics to fight Québec separatism, and that made him popular with a lot of English-speaking Canadians.
In 1981, Trudeau also became the father of the most significant constitutional reforms since Confederation, including the advent of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- and these changes were deeply controversial, especially in Québec.
But Trudeau thought he won all the fights that really mattered, which explains why he remains one of the most admired and most disliked of all Canadian prime ministers.
www.primeministers.ca /trudeau/intro.php   (178 words)

  
 Free Term Papers on Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau, who was the Prime Minister during this time, knew that the FLQ was getting out of hand.
Pierre Trudeau’s decision was the right one; there were not many options and not much time.
Pierre Trudeau first introduced the constitutional changes right after the problem with the sovereignty association was dealt with.
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 The Pierre Trudeau Home Page, Former Prime Minister of Canada. 1919-2000 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Pierre Trudeau Biographies - Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was first elected Canada's prime minister in 1968.
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.
Trudeau's final term in office was significant for the federalist victory in the first Quebec referendum on independence (called by Parti Québécois premier René Lévesque) and Trudeau's successful attempts to patriate the Canadian constitution and add a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, his most enduring legacy.
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 The Right Honourable Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Trudeau began to support labour unions, especially during the Asbestos Strike.
Within a year, Trudeau had reformed the divorce laws and had liberalized the laws on abortion and homosexuality (paraphrase: 'The government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation').
Trudeau devoted his efforts during his final term as prime minister to opposing the separatist goals of the Parti Québècois in power in Quebec.
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 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Celebrity Sighting
Momentarily stunned, I had to say something, even though I knew Trudeau was an intensely private man and certainly not the type of person who liked to be bothered on the street.
Trudeau looked away from his paper, nodded to me, and returned to his reading.
Trudeau didn't say anything, but had a slight grin on his face.
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 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada.
On November 1, 1968, Trudeau visited New York City to attend the theater and have lunch with U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations.
On March 25, 1969, while Trudeau was visiting President Nixon in the White House, the smoke alarm went off at the Blair House, where Trudeau was staying while visiting the United States.
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 Pierre Trudeau Essays
Pierre Trudeau was Canada's greatest leader, in the author's opinion.
The fifteenth prime minister in Canada's history, Pierre Elliot Trudeau inspired many Canadians with his enthusiasm, energy, and charisma.
An overview of the lives of Pierre Trudeau and Lester Pearson, Canadian prime ministers whose achievements make them the most significant Canadians in the nation's history.
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 Pierre Elliot Trudeau
It is not a documentary about Trudeau’s life, rather an exploration of how the people coming into their own today viewed the world, and added to the intense mystery that is Canada’s identity crisis.
The lack of opposition to Trudeau’s great ideal may be unsettling to some, especially if you grew up in a household in which discussions of Trudeau always ended with talk of murder.
In the end, it is the story of Marois and McDonald, who met and became partners on an exchange, and who watched the ’95 referendum over a pregnant stomach together, who accepted the results and who rejected their place in the argument, which provide a victory on the smallest and largest of scales.
www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/buzz/stories/19991028/buzz3.html   (679 words)

  
 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Essay | Student Essays
Summary: The fifteenth prime minister in Canada's history, Pierre Elliot Trudeau inspired many Canadians with his enthusiasm, energy, and charisma.
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was known as one of the greatest leaders in Canadian history, his enthusiasm, energy and charisma touched the hearts of many Canadians.
He was born into a wealthy family, in Quebec on October 18, 1919 and lived a healthy and well loved life till the day he died of cancer on September 28, 2000.
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