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Pierre Trudeau: Power
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In 1965, Trudeau entered politics, along with Jean Marchand and Gérard Pelletier, as one of “les trois colombes” (the three wise men). At the time, he was seen as the junior member of the triumvirate but was soon to emerge as the most articulate and important of the three in the federal government. His entrance into politics followed on the heels of a very active phase of his life as a writer in Cité Libre, championing the causes of freedom of speech and thought as well as democracy, and strong social critic of the Duplessis regime and of the nationalism which emerged out of the Quiet Revolution. Three main reasons seem to have precipitated his entrance into politics: he wished to provide a strong voice for Quebec in the federal government, and in this manner attach more firmly the province to Canada, fight the rising tide of separatism and arrest the erosion of federal powers in the direction of the provinces, and particularly to Quebec.
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To each chapter in this selection Trudeau provided an introduction and to many of the excerpts he added a new commentary. The result is a book of remarkable power: rational, timely, and eloquent.
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Alberta Progressive Conservative Senator Bud Olson is impressed with the prime minister's conciliatory approach — Trudeau's invitation for Lougheed to take Ottawa to court. But the CBC's Barbara Frum asks Olson in this radio clip if the invitation implies "Mr. Trudeau knows or believes that a court will always find that the federal power has more authority?"
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