Eight high profile cabinet ministers entered the race, but by the time the convention began on April 3 the charismatic Trudeau had emerged as the front runner.

In his political career, Turner held several prominent Cabinet posts, including minister of justice and minister of finance, under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from 1968 to 1975.

Turner had been under pressure to cancel the appointments, but chose not to, and instead proceeded to appoint several more Liberals to prominent political offices, per a signed, legal agreement with Trudeau.

Tom Axworthy, a prominent Liberal strategist, responded that Trudeau should be judged on his mature views.

The response, however, was criticized at the time and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque, Robert Stanfield, and Tommy Douglas ,) believed that Trudeau was being excessive in advising the use of the War Measures Act to suspend civil liberties and that the precedent set by this incident was dangerous.

Trudeau thus played a prominent role in leading the popular opposition to the Accord.

Since the 1990s, federal and state consumer protection agencies have either successfully sued or been critical of several prominent informercial pitchmen, including Kevin Trudeau, Donald Barrett, and Matthew Lesko.

Many prominent Canadians were university debaters, including former Canadian Prime Ministers Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney, MPs John Godfrey and Justin Trudeau, Canadian Supreme Court justices Ian Binnie and Morris Fish, songwriter Leonard Cohen, entrepreneur Moses Znaimer, environmentalist David Suzuki, and journalist Ian Hanomansing.

During Hatfield's long tenure, he became prominent on the national stage, allying with federal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau during the constitutional negotiations that led to the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution and the creation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Coyne was among many prominent Liberals who disagreed with the Accord, including Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Donald Johnston and Jean Chrétien, although the issue split the federal Liberal caucus.

Marchand, Pelletier and Trudeau would eventually become prominent Canadian politicians and were known later in their political careers as les trois colombes ( the Three Wise Men ).

As a teenager, the younger Manley served as president of the Young Liberals Association in S, D and G and was influenced by the leadership of not only his grandfather, but of other prominent Liberals, including Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Lucien Lamoureux and Ed Lumley.

Throughout the 1950s, Trudeau was a leading figure in the opposition to the repressive rule of Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis as the founder and editor of Cité Libre, a dissident journal that helped provide the intellectual basis for the Quiet Revolution.

In his 2007 play Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path, Clarke features his Liberal hero Trudeau ( 1919 – 2000 ) describing him as “ the Shakespearean character: … He ’ s a figure about whom it is almost impossible to say anything definitive, because he is encompassed by so many contradictions but that ’ s what makes him interesting .” In presenting a multicultural Trudeau on the international stage, Clarke seeks to capture the human dimensions, the personality of Trudeau rather than his politics so as to emphasize the dialogues among key characters to “ show the people as people not just exponents of ideas ”.

By the end of the campaign, Trudeau was unquestionably the most popular figure among the Canadian public.

Trudeau wrote in his memoirs that he had in fact engineered his own downfall, since he was confident he would win the resulting election.

In 1876, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau arrived to treat his own tuberculosis ; in 1884, he founded his Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, starting with a small cottage, called " Little Red ", where two tubercular sisters from New York City became the first patients.

Due to the lack of restraints on the prime minister of the day to do what he / she pleases with the mansion, several prime ministers have left their own marks on the building ; for example, unnamed business associates of Pierre Trudeau installed a swimming pool for his frequent workouts.

Margaret Trudeau, whom Pierre Trudeau married while in office, became a notable celebrity in her own right, most famously when she was featured on the covers of international tabloids after being seen partying at Studio 54.

Claiming that he'd gone so far as to apologize for making light of " these horrible appointments ," Mulroney demanded that Turner apologize to the country for not cancelling the appointments advised by Trudeau and for recommending his own appointments.

Turner's inability to overcome the alleged resentment against Trudeau, combined with his own mistakes, resulted in a debacle for the Liberals.

Trudeau first criticized the performance of the Quebec Liberal party, was " drowning in a swamp of its own verbiage " during a televised National Assembly debate on sovereignty, in contrast to the Parti Québécois which had masterfully coordinated its speakers.

Because she strongly desired to campaign for the " No " forces in the weeks leading up to Quebec's 1980 referendum on separation from Canada, Sauvé initially refused the offer of running for the non-partisan position, but eventually acquiesced after Trudeau convinced her that she was the right person for the job and she received permission from the leaders of all the parties in the House of Commons to engage in the federalist campaign in Quebec.

Sauvé was on May 14, 1984, sworn in as governor general in a ceremony in the Senate chamber, during which Trudeau said: " It is right and proper that Her Majesty should finally have a woman representative here ," though stressing that the Queen had not appointed Sauvé simply because she was a woman.

From left to right, Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, Chrétien, and Lester B. Pearson.

Trudeau ( left ) is seated next to Darfurian refugee Tragi Mustafa, and an unknown female event organiser is seated next to Roméo Dallaire ( right )

From left to right, with Pearson: Pierre Trudeau, John Napier Turner | John Turner and Jean Chrétien.

He drew support from a wide part of the political spectrum and from across the country, but was generally seen as somewhat to the right of Trudeau.

According to the Star, Bush ended up in the same situation Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ended up in when he won an election he called right after the six emotional days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

The Colts stormed right back, as quarterback Jack Trudeau threw completions for gains of 18 and 21 yards before finishing the drive with a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Pat Beach.

" However, after a promising round of consultations between the government of Canada and aboriginal leaders in which issues of Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right of self-government were prominently discussed, Aboriginal people were outraged when Trudeau ’ s Minister of Indian Affairs, the Hon.

Left to right: Pierre Trudeau, Gaston Thorn, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Ronald Reagan, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Margaret Thatcher and Amintore Fanfani.

The strip underwent a significant change after Trudeau returned to it from a 22-month hiatus ( from January 1983 to October 1984 ).

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

* 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (; ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000 ), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.

Trudeau is credited with introducing Canada's " Multiculturalism Policy " on October 8, 1971 recognizing that while Canada was a country of two official languages, it did not have a single unitary culture but rather recognized the plurality of cultures-" a multicultural policy within a bilingual framework ".

Trudeau later ( in October 1975 ) instituted wage and price controls, something which he had mocked Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield for proposing during the election campaign a year earlier.

During the October Crisis, Chrétien told Trudeau to " act now, explain later ", when Trudeau was hesitant to invoke the War Measures Act.

Born in Minnesota, Mayor Dennis Trudeau enlisted in the Canadian Army in October 1942 because his family was living in Canada when the war started.

Trudeau spoke on television in October 1980, and announced his intention to constitutionalize a bill of rights that would include fundamental freedoms, democratic guarantees, freedom of movement, legal rights, equality and language rights.

However, before being retired, the fleet had carried such dignitaries as Premier Alexei Kosygin of the USSR on his October 1971 visit to Canada, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on his historic visit to China in October 1973, and Pope John Paul II during his 1984 visit to Canada.

* October 16-October Crisis: Pierre Trudeau introduces the War Measures Act to deal with the FLQ threat.

* October 2-Michel Trudeau, student ( d. 1998 )

* October 6 – Trudeau announces his plan to patriate the Canadian constitution unilaterally

* September 28 to October 3-Death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, former prime minister

*" Impromptu interview of Pierre Elliott Trudeau with Tim Ralfe of the CBC Radio and Peter Reilly of CJON-TV on October 13, 1970 " in Chronologies of Quebec History, Claude Bélanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College.

* October 18-Pierre Trudeau, politician and 15th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 2000 )

In October 2006, Trudeau criticized Quebec nationalism by describing political nationalism generally as " old idea from the 19th century ," " based on a smallness of thought " and not relevant to modern Quebec.

Segal opposed on civil liberties grounds the imposition of the War Measures Act by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the October Crisis of 1970.

Michel Trudeau ( October 2, 1975 – November 13, 1998 ) was the youngest son of the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau.