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Pierre Trudeau: World
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Trudeau wanted to give Canada a greater role on the world's stage, and made many diplomatic visits to foreign nations. He became the first western leader to visit Communist China, where he was greeted with much fanfare. Over the years Trudeau forged many close personal relationships with fellow world leaders, including Fidel Castro, Jimmy Carter, and Michael Manley.
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[T]hen, Trudeau was pretty silly. His much-vaunted intellect was a myth, his academic writings banal. He traveled all round the world in his youth, yet did "not recognize differences either of color, or of race, or of culture," wrote his biographer, Richard Gwyn. "No-one who knows Trudeau can recall him ever indulging in the mildest of cultural stereotyping." (Tell that to Steve Sailer!) Gwyn felt this was evidence of an open mind. But it actually revealed a closed, even empty, one. Heart, not head, constituted Trudeau's (quite real) claim to greatness.
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Trudeau used the War Measures Act in 1970 to allow him to arrest anyone anywhere at any time. His first act was to put lawn gnomes all over the Bell Center ( Canada's white house ) then he bulit a large sulpture of a Q-tip which is ... used as a hockey arena for Canada's national team ( The Mighty Ducks ). With the act in place Trudeau was on top of the world and celebrated by smiting Yogi Bear thus making him have the power to love.
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In a room or a crowd, Mr. Trudeau tended to dominate all around him, especially in Canada. He was a thinking man, a man of clear, logically reasoned opinions. (Whether one agreed that his logic was logical was another matter.) On the world stage Mr. Trudeau was ... in his day, a prominent figure, an influential statesman. It may even be to his credit that U.S. president Richard Milhous Nixon detested him.
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Trudeau was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and evolved from spoiled child to professional student to world traveler on his father's dime. His spoiled childhood consisted of being driven to school by a chaffeur, and starting a childhood club with the moniker "
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Some consider Trudeau's economic policies to have been a weak point. Inflation and unemployment marred much of his prime ministership. When Trudeau took office in 1968 Canada had a debt of $18 billion (24% of GDP) which was largely left over from World War II
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