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Pierre Trudeau: Canadian Encyclopedia
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Trudeau was simply a terrible leader. He had no respect for individual rights and freedoms. This is evident in his lifelong admiration of dictators, his imposition of military rule in Canada, his political philosophy and his repatriation of the Constitution. His arrogance and immaturity served as the basis for his popularity, rather than any meritous achievements. His actions and policies were deleterious, harming not only Albertans but ... Canadians. His actions will eventually lead to the breakup of Canada.
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Trudeau's government ... took radical action to deal with the energy crisis of the early 1980s. The National Energy Program was highly nationalistic in aim and tone. Through incentives and taxation benefits it encouraged the growth of Canadian ownership in the energy field. It also set a price for Canadian oil below that on the world market. American investors were infuriated; so were the major producing provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The business community was strongly opposed to what it perceived as an attempt by government to grab most of the oil windfall for itself.
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Trudeau soon called an election, for 25 June (see Canadian federal election, 1968). His election campaign benefited from an unprecedented wave of personal popularity called "Trudeaumania" (a term coined by journalist Lubor J. Zink[6]), which saw Trudeau mobbed by throngs of youths. An iconic moment that influenced the election occurred on its eve, during the annual Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal, when rioting Québec separatists threw rocks and bottles at the grandstand where Trudeau was seated. Rejecting the pleas of his aides that he take cover, Trudeau stayed in his seat, facing the rioters, without any sign of fear. The image of the young politician showing such courage impressed the Canadian people, and he handily won the election the next day.[7][8]
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Trudeau, born Oct. 18, 1919, lived to age 80. His death in 2000 stirred an outpouring of emotion and nostalgia that was unprecedented for a Canadian political leader. He was a charismatic man remembered by some for wearing sandals in the Commons and doing a pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth.
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John English set out to write a book about Pierre Elliot Trudeau -a man English regards as a great Canadian. Unfortunately the facts about Trudeau do not lend themselves to the "great man" thesis that English uses. While long, the book is shoddy and filled with dubious conclusions. English writes that Trudeau read Franz Neumann's BEHEMOTH in 1945 and "realized the horrors Hitler had wrought". But BEHEMOTH (1943) is not about the murder of 6 million Jews and millions of other civilians, so…
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Trudeau's government undertook a wide-ranging review of Canada's foreign policy. The military commitment to NATO was reduced, and Canadian foreign policy became less sympathetic to the international policies of the United States. Domestically, Trudeau sought constitutional reform without much success, but he did work more fruitfully to secure French Canadian rights within Canadian confederation. His economic policies were surprisingly conservative, although a significant reform in the taxation system did occur in 1971 and unemployment benefits became more generous and more widely available.
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