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According to long-time friend and colleague Marc Lalonde, the clerically influenced dictatorships of António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal ( the Estado Novo ), Francisco Franco in Spain ( the Spanish State ), and Marshal Philippe Pétain in Vichy France were seen as political role models by many youngsters educated at elite Jesuit schools in Quebec.

Lalonde asserts that Trudeau's later intellectual development as an " intellectual rebel, anti-establishment fighter on behalf of unions and promoter of religious freedom " came from his experiences after leaving Quebec to study in the United States, France and England, and to travel to dozens of countries.

His international experiences allowed him to break from Jesuit influence and study French philosophers such as Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier as well as John Locke and David Hume.