The name " Doonesbury " is a combination of the word doone ( prep school slang for " someone who is out to lunch ", that is, someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless ) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.

He presided over a number of landmark cases, most notably the 1981 reference to the Court on Pierre Trudeau's attempt to have the federal government unilaterally patriate the British North America Act without the consent of the provinces ( see Canadian Constitution ).

In the election of 1979, Trudeau's Liberal government was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.

The final cartoon of the series came when Trudeau's airplane was hit by a bus, and pictured a puzzled Trudeau staring at the bus while one of his aides held up Clark's mittens and said, " We don't know who the driver was, but we found his mittens.

Schreyer was a youthful and charismatic figure from the centrist wing of the NDP, and his party was able to win the support of many centre-left voters ( including those who had voted for Pierre Trudeau's federal Liberals the previous year ).

In 1970, comedians John Morgan and Martin Bronstein, who were looking for non-actors who could write and perform their own material, convinced Abbott to join the cast of the improvisational theatre revue called The Jest Society ( a pun on then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's famous goal of making Canada a " Just Society ").

There is a popular misconception that " fuddle duddle " was coined as a euphemism by the Hansard reporter who prepared the official transcript of Trudeau's words for that parliamentary session.

Among those was Brian Mulroney, who said that by " accepting Mr. Trudeau's referendum idea, Mr. Levesque himself abandoned, without notice, his colleagues of the common front.

Trudeau's father died when Pierre was in his mid-teens.

A worsening economy, burgeoning national debt, and growing public antipathy towards Trudeau's perceived arrogance caused his poll numbers to fall rapidly in the mid and late 1970s Trudeau delayed calling the 31st Canadian general election as long as he could, but was forced to call one in the spring of 1979.

However, the Liberals ' polling data was faulty ; they had in fact not polled since May and the situation had since changed, not least because of the public uproar over Trudeau's last minute patronage.

The consensus was that Mulroney would be heavily defeated by Jean Chrétien and the Liberals if he led the Tories into the next election — ironically, the same situation that led to Trudeau's departure from the scene nine years earlier.

In many ways his social liberalism was as bold in the 1970s as Trudeau's was in the 1960s.

In Canada, the most recent example of a cabinet minister appointed from outside of parliament having to resign after losing a by-election was in 1975 when Minister of Communications Pierre Juneau was appointed to Pierre Trudeau's Liberal cabinet directly from the private sector and tried to enter parliament through a by-election in Hochelaga.

It was on December 28, 1978 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Pierre Trudeau's choice of Schreyer to succeed Jules Léger as the Queen's representative.

It was on October 5, 1973 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Pierre Trudeau's choice of Léger to succeed Roland Michener as the Queen's representative.

Mulroney was invited to and attended Justin Trudeau's wedding.

During his time at the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth flag was designed on his and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's initiative.

On the eve of the 1979 election, in which Trudeau's party lost the majority of seats in the House of Commons, Margaret was dancing at Studio 54 nightclub in New York City.

The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69 introduced by Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government, decriminalized abortion, as long as a committee of doctors signed off that it was necessary for the physical or mental well-being of the mother.

While in office, he spoke to the press about Trudeau's alleged profanity in the fuddle duddle incident, and was an observer to the United Nations in 1976 and 1978.

Trudeau's assistant Ted Johnson also worked for Power Corp. During the Trudeau administration Michael Pitfield held a variety of positions in government but during his time in the private sector he was at one time a Vice-Chairman of Power Corp. and is currently listed as a Director Emeritus.

Liberal Party leader John Turner was put into a tough position, considering the popularity of the agreement in Quebec ( a traditional Liberal stronghold until Trudeau's patriation of the constitution in 1982 ; since, Quebec has not voted Liberal to such an overwhelming extent ) and the Trudeau ideal of federal power.

He served as Trudeau's Transport Minister, and was Senior Minister in the Cabinet, a position similar to the current position of Deputy Prime Minister.

Author and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, the obvious inspiration for Trudeau's Uncle Duke character ( Thompson originally wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas under the pseudonym Raoul Duke ) said in numerous interviews that he was irritated and unhappy with the characterization.

An especially important issue was Trudeau's recommendation that Sauvé appoint over 200 Liberals to patronage posts just before he left office.

The PCs ' victory was aided in large part by a massive breakthrough in Quebec, winning 58 seats as compared to the one Quebec seat they won in 1980 ; Mulroney successfully campaigned in Quebec on a message that Pierre Trudeau's Liberals had " sold out " the province during the process of patriating the Canadian constitution in 1982, due to the fact that Quebec never formally signed on to the new constitution.

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.

Still, Queen Elizabeth II, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved on January 28, 1984, Trudeau's recommendation that she appoint Sauvé as her representative.

Political cartoons can usually be found on the editorial page of most newspapers, although a few ( such as Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury ) are sometimes found on the regular comic strip page.

He first became involved in politics by volunteering on Trudeau's 1968 Liberal leadership campaign, and later worked on Liberal Charles Caccia's campaign in the 1968 federal election.

Trudeau's short-lived retirement ended with the defeat of Clark's government and the Liberals ' return to power with a majority government on February 18, 1980.

Sharp also had a strong belief in republicanism, revealing in his 1994 memoirs that because of his negative views on the monarchy, he refused to accept Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's offer to recommend him for appointment as Governor General.

Fenwick is considered by some to be the model for the character of Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury, although Trudeau's Lacey was not modeled on anyone in particular, according to Trudeau.

As one of Trudeau's most powerful ministers, he chaired the cabinet committee on economic development from 1980 to 1983.

He and Trudeau remained friends and became even closer when Porteous took a two-year leave of absence from his law practice in 1966 and went to Ottawa to work as an executive assistant to Treasury Board president C. M. Drury, before volunteering as a speechwriter on Trudeau's 1968 leadership campaign.

However, there was disagreement over Trudeau's proposed Charter of Rights, which the other eight provinces opposed as encroachments on their power.

Trudeau's policy on First Nations affairs included the White Paper that controversially advocated the end of economic and political autonomy of First Nations within Canada that had been granted for centuries, this policy failed and was later removed from the Trudeau government's agenda.

A staunch federalist, he was also one of Trudeau's chief advisors on the situation in Quebec, taking the position of Minister of State on federal-provincial relations in the wake of the Parti Québécois victory in the 1976 Quebec provincial election.

* October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.

Trudeau's Darkest Hour: War Measures in Time of Peace | October 1970, Baraka Books, Montréal, 2010, 212 p. ISBN 978-1-926824-04-8.

Schreyer sometimes favoured policies distinct from those of the federal New Democratic Party ; in 1970, he supported Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's direction of the Governor General to invoke the War Measures Act in response to the October Crisis in Quebec, despite the opposition of federal NDP leader Tommy Douglas.

* October 30-Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a minority

* October 26-Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.