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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.
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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.
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This same bill also legalized homosexuality and contraception, and would be the subject of one of Trudeau's most famous quotations: " The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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.
The idea also fit with Trudeau's economic nationalism.
Lyon was also an initial opponent of Pierre Trudeau's constitutional plans, and subsequently became a leading supporter of the notwithstanding clause provision.
These initials were also popularly used to parody the name of the nationalized oil / gas company PETRO Canada ( founded during Trudeau's reign ) which was rendered as: Pierre Elliot Trudeau ripping off Canada — probably of Albertan origin.
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.
He also served as Pearson's Minister of Public Works from 1965 on, and was also Pierre Trudeau's first public works minister.
The Record also played an integral role in then-editor in chief Garry Trudeau's creation of his epochal strip Doonesbury.
He also provided the voice of Trudeau's Jimmy Thudpucker for a NetAid concert.
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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.
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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.
Trudeau's first years would be most remembered for the passage of his implementation of official bilingualism.
Amongst the policies introduced by Trudeau's last term in office included an expansion in government support for Canada ’ s poorest citizens and the introduction of the National Energy Program ( NEP ), which created a firestorm of protest in the Western provinces and increased what many termed " Western alienation ".
Two very significant events for Canada occurred during Pierre Trudeau's final term in office.
Trudeau's approval ratings slipped after the bounce from the 1982 patriation, and by the beginning of 1984, opinion polls showed the Liberals were headed for certain defeat if Trudeau remained in office.
Turner served in Trudeau's cabinet as Minister of Justice for four years.
Trudeau's Liberals swept his party back into power in the February 1980 election with 146 seats, against 103 for the Progressive Conservatives.
The Trudeau Institute, an independent medical research center, evolved from Trudeau's work for the sanitarium.
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.
Except for New Brunswick, most other provinces that accepted grudgingly Trudeau's bilingualism initiative never fully implemented it, likely in protest to Quebec's language laws.
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.
After Dion's resignation as Liberal leader in 2008, Trudeau's name was mentioned as a potential candidate to succeed him, with polls showing him as a favourite among Canadians for the position.
Trudeau's appearance in court in support of Almrei resulted in front page coverage in the Toronto Star and National Post and major media attention being given to the security certificate issue for the first time.
Thatcher's widow Peggy was persuaded to run for the federal parliament in support of Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in the 1972 federal election but fared poorly coming in a weak third in Regina East.
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.
Olson supported Pierre Trudeau's successful candidacy for the Liberal leadership in 1968, and became minister of agriculture in the first Trudeau government.
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 ").
He did not run for re-election in the 1972 election, partly as a result of his criticisms of Trudeau's economic policy.
In 1976, he was appointed Secretary of State for Canada in Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's cabinet.
He was returned to the House yet again as a result of the 1980 election, and joined Trudeau's final cabinet, first as Minister of the Environment, Minister of State for Science and Technology and then as Minister of Employment and Immigration.
Gordon supported Pierre Trudeau's winning 1968 bid for the Liberal leadership, after Pearson announced his retirement in late 1967.
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The character Toggle in Garry Trudeau's cartoon strip Doonesbury suffers from expressive aphasia.
Admirers praise the force of Trudeau's intellect, and they salute his political acumen in preserving national unity against Quebec separatists, suppressing a violent revolt, and establishing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within Canada's constitution.
Trudeau's father died when Pierre was in his mid-teens.
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.
This cemented Trudeau's belief that Keynesian economics and social science were essential to the creation of the " good life " in democratic society.
An associate professor of law at the Université de Montréal from 1961 to 1965, Trudeau's views evolved towards a liberal position in favour of individual rights counter to the state and made him an opponent of Quebec nationalism.
Castro did in fact later attend Trudeau's funeral in the year 2000.
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.
In the election of 1979, Trudeau's Liberal government was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.
A series of difficult budgets by long-time loyalist Allan MacEachen in the early 1980s did not improve Trudeau's economic reputation.
* October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury ran several strips sympathetic to the Anderson campaign.
His positions were more conservative than Trudeau's and they drew apart.
This hampered his attempt to distance himself from Trudeau's policies and practices.
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.
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.
Federal Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield initially supported Trudeau's actions, but later regretted doing so.
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