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Trudeau has also displayed fluency in various forms of jargon, including those of real estate agents, flight attendants, computer scientists, journalists, presidential aides, and soldiers in Iraq.
Following Meighen into civilian life were: Robert Borden, who served as Chancellor of Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector ; Lester B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University ; Joe Clark and Kim Campbell, who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell working in international diplomacy and as the director of private companies and chairperson of interest groups ; while Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien returned to legal practice.
Trudeau also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr. during constitutional negotiations.
Trudeau also remained active in international affairs, visiting foreign leaders and participating in international associations such as the Club of Rome.
They were also made against Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Chancellor of West Germany ( later all of Germany ), Helmut Kohl, when in power.
He was also good friends with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Turner was also generally respected for his work as a Cabinet Minister in the 1960s and 1970s, under prime ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.
However, Trudeau also complimented Clark as a respectable leader and a better choice over Brian Mulroney, who had defeated Clark at the leadership convention 1983.
C-SPAN has also carried CBC ’ s coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Canadian Parliament, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U. S. presidential elections ( e. g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians ), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.
Pressure from provincial governments ( which in Canada have jurisdiction over property ) and from the country's left wing, especially the New Democratic Party, also prevented Trudeau from including any rights protecting private property.
By the end of the 1960s, Trudeau had also passed legislation decriminalizing homosexuality and certain types of abortion.
On one occasion, LeBlanc also persuaded Trudeau to advise the Governor General to close Canadian ports to Soviet fishing vessels, a headline-grabbing diplomatic thrust that resulted in better co-operation, and forbade all foreign corporations from holding commercial fishing licences in Canada.
Schreyer also later suggested that he might have dissolved parliament at any point through 1981 and 1982, had the Prime Minister by then a returned Trudeau tried to unilaterally impose his constitutional proposals.
Paul Desmarais is also the former employer of Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney and Maurice Strong, the " father of the Kyoto Accords, which was sacked for taking part in a fraud of 10 billion USD under the food program in Iraq Oil cons.
University College is also home to the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs.
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.
Trudeau also addresses the nation in a televised speech explaining why he invoked the War Measures Act.
When interim leader Rae, who was also seen as a frontrunner, announced he would not be entering the race in June 2012, Trudeau was hit with a " tsunami " of calls from supports to reconsider his earlier to decision to not seek the leadership.
He is also a director of the Trudeau Foundation for excellence in social sciences and humanities research and innovation.
Those who followed his career, as a publisher and later as a politician, have noted that he also opposed the existing federal status quo, which he considered as too centralized, despite statements to the contrary by the then-Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Trudeau also denied later rumours-for which no evidence has been uncovered-that he and Arcand had once been members together of a secret Rosicrucian Order.
Trudeau and Ryan were also helped by a political and public relations disaster that the Pequistes themselves created.
Lapierre was a strong proponent of the Meech Lake Accord, while Turner and Martin also expressed support for it, though Trudeau publicly campaigned against it and his protege Chrétien was later revealed to oppose it as well.
Lapierre also commented that Dion was the first leader not to have to cope with a divided party, after decades of infighting between Trudeau / Turner and Chrétien / Martin.

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However, Trudeau decided to implement the wage and price controls in late 1975, so some have suggested that Turner quit rather than carry out that proposal.
Harris later suggested that he was motivated to enter politics by an opposition to the policies of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

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" Some Liberal MPs called on Trudeau to be their " spiritual leader " against the accord, further undermining John Turner's already fragile leadership.
Turner's inability to overcome the alleged resentment against Trudeau, combined with his own mistakes, resulted in a debacle for the Liberals.
He supported John Turner's successful bid to succeed Trudeau in the 1984 Liberal leadership contest but lost his seat in the 1984 election.

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Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.
In 1972, he headed a Soviet delegation to Belgium, and three years later he led a delegation to West Germany ; in 1983 he headed a delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Commons and Senate.
His energetic campaign attracted massive media attention and mobilized many young people, who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change ( even though he was 48 years old ).
In his final years, Trudeau commanded broad respect in Canada, but was regarded with suspicion in Quebec for his role in the 1982 constitutional deal which was seen as having excluded that province, while dislike for him remained commonplace in western Canada.
In his memoirs, Trudeau wrote that Turner said he resigned as Finance Minister in 1975 because he was tired of politics, after 13 years in Ottawa, and wanted to move on to a better-paying job as a lawyer in Toronto, to better support his family and to be with them more, as his children were growing up.
He came to power in the 1979 election, defeating the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen continuous years of Liberal rule.
Four years later, with the new Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in attendance on the eve of a general election, a riot broke out on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.
Within the first few years of his tenure, Drapeau oversaw a series of infrastructure projects, including the expansion of Dorval airport ( now Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport ), the opening of the Champlain bridge and the renaissance of Old Montreal.
Late in 1982, LeBlanc became Minister of Public Works for two years before being nominated by Trudeau to then Governor General Jeanne Sauvé for appointment to the Senate on June 29, 1984.
The position of deputy prime minister was created by Pierre Trudeau in 1977, largely to recognize the long years of service of Allan J. MacEachen.
Ms. Sinclair did not recognize him, and she in fact thought little of their encounter, but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree " flower child ," thirty years younger than himself, and began to pursue her.
In a newspaper opinion piece, Trudeau wrote: " he federation was set to last a thousand years.
Pierre and Margaret Trudeau separated in 1977, when Justin was six years old, and Pierre retired as prime minister in 1984.
He and his family started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign for winter sports safety in 2000, two years after his brother Michel Trudeau died in an avalanche during a ski trip.
In the years following his father's death, Trudeau produced documentaries for Canadian television.
Trudeau offered to be a surety for Hassan Almrei, a Syrian refugee held in a Canadian jail for four years without any charges being laid.
In his later years Trudeau, made a major parting from the Commission's findings.
When Trudeau won the Liberal Party leadership campaign, on becoming Prime Minister later in 1968 he offered Porteous a job as his executive assistant, a position he held for five years.
Since Trudeau was in power for many of the same years as Lévesque, the two were sometimes referred to collectively as " Ti-Pet et Ti-Poil " by irreverent members of the population.
After two days of meetings came to a stalemate, Trudeau pitched an idea to Lévesque: to patriate the constitution as it was, but continue debates for two years and maybe even have a national referendum on certain issues.
Seven months after the 1979 election which ended 11 years of Trudeau Liberal government, the Tory government of Joe Clark was defeated in motion of no confidence in the government and its budget moved by Bob Rae of the NDP and supported by the Liberals.
For years, she dated former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Trudeau and Altman revisited the story 16 years later in Tanner on Tanner.
Fifteen years later, during the city's sesquicentennial, then Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau turned the first sod for the Peace Garden, which was to sit immediately north of, but also incorporate, the pre-exsiting sundial.

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