Garry Trudeau received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1994, and their Reuben Award for 1995 for his work on the strip.

With the exception of Walden College, Trudeau has frequently used real-life settings, based on real scenarios, but with fictional results.

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.

Trudeau said he was willing to fight during World War II, but he believed that to do so would be to turn his back on the population of Quebec that he believed had been betrayed by the government of William Mackenzie King.

The National Archives of Canada, in its biographical sketches of Canadian Prime Ministers, records show that on one occasion during the war, Trudeau and his friends drove their motorcycles wearing Prussian military uniforms, complete with pointed steel helmets.

Trudeau was interested in Marxist ideas in the 1940s and his Harvard dissertation was on the topic of Communism and Christianity.

Members of Pearson's cabinet, including Trudeau on the far left, with future Prime Ministers John Turner and Jean Chrétien

As Minister of Justice, Pierre Trudeau was responsible for introducing the landmark Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69, an omnibus bill whose provisions included, among other things, the decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults, the legalization of contraception, abortion and lotteries, new gun ownership restrictions as well as the authorization of breathalyzer tests on suspected drunk drivers.

Trudeau paraphrased the term from Martin O ' Malley's editorial piece in the The Globe and Mail on December 12, 1967.

Nevertheless, at the April 1968 Liberal leadership convention, Trudeau was elected as the leader on the fourth ballot, with the support of 51 % of the delegates.

As the new leader of the governing Liberals, Trudeau was sworn in as Prime Minister two weeks later on April 20.

An iconic moment that influenced the election occurred on its eve, during the annual Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day parade in Montreal, when rioting Quebec separatists threw rocks and bottles at the grandstand where Trudeau was seated.

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 was the first world leader to meet John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono on their ' tour for world peace '.

The Liberal Party persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election.

However, after tough bargaining on both sides, Trudeau did reach a revenue-sharing agreement on energy with Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed in 1982.

Trudeau had attempted patriation of the Constitution earlier in his career with the Victoria Charter, but ran into a combined force of provincial Premiers on the issue of an amending formula.

Trudeau retired from politics on June 30, 1984 and was succeeded by John Turner.

These tasks were solely in the domain of the monarch until the 1970s, when Queen Elizabeth II, on the advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, allowed the governor general to perform these duties on her behalf.

) Turner stayed on until the fourth and final ballot despite finishing a distant third behind Pierre Trudeau and runner-up Robert Winters.

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.

In his final days of office, Trudeau recommended that Governor General Jeanne Sauvé appoint over 200 Liberals to well-paying patronage positions, including Senators, judges, and executives on various governmental and crown corporation boards, widely seen as a way to offer " plum jobs " to loyal party members.

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.

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

Harris later suggested that he was motivated to enter politics by an opposition to the policies of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Brian Mulroney's appointment as Prime Minister of Canada while Robert Bourassa served as Premier of Quebec created a new climate, different from the bitter opposition between Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque.

During the era when Pierre Eliott Trudeau was Prime Minister, and Joe Clark was leader of the official opposition, cartoonist Andy Donato lampooned both of them extensively.

The government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the opposition New Democratic Party felt that these corporations geared most of their production to the American market, and as a result little of the benefit of rising oil prices went to Canadians.

He withdrew his name from the nomination process in the riding of Mount Royal to allow Pierre Trudeau to run without strong opposition for the 1965 nomination.

Olson served as leader of the opposition in the Senate in 1979, and returned to Cabinet when the Trudeau Liberals returned to power in 1980.

However its opposition to the Vietnam War and Canada's relationship with China and Cuba, along with the Prime Ministership of Pierre Trudeau often had Canada at odds with its southern neighbors.

In February 1971, opposition MPs accused Trudeau of having mouthed the words " fuck off " at them in the House of Commons.

The other seven opposition premiers were startled: Canadians nationwide were mostly in agreement with Trudeau on the issue and were tired of the constant constitutional talks.

Co-founded in 1950 by editor and future Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, the publication served as an organ of opposition to the conservative government of Maurice Duplessis.

The election was won by the Liberals under Pierre Trudeau, and O ' Connor served as an opposition member for two years.

This is attributed to a few factors: ( 1 ) he felt the federal NDP could not achieve power, because of Tommy Douglas's inability to attract voters in Quebec, ( 2 ) Trudeau expressed doubts about the centralizing policies of Canada's socialists ( he favoured a more decentralized approach ), and ( 3 ) there were " real differences " between his approach and the NDP's " two nations " approach to the Canadian constitution and the role of Quebec within Canada.

As the provinces still had doubts about the Charter's merits, Trudeau was forced to accept the notwithstanding clause to allow governments to opt out of certain obligations.

Some of the second generation of Doonesbury characters have attended Walden, a venue Trudeau uses to advance his concerns about academic standards in America.

* Trudeau was awarded the US Army ’ s Commander ’ s Award for Public Service in 2006 for his series of strips about BD ’ s recovery following the loss of his leg in Iraq.

* Kevin Trudeau, US writer and billiards promoter, convicted of fraud and larceny in 1991, known for a series of late-night infomercials and his series of books about " Natural Cures " They " Don't Want You to Know About ".

I must say I had qualms about it myself " Sauvé won, becoming one of five woman MPs, and was subsequently was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council and appointed as Minister of State for Science and Technology in the Cabinet chaired by Pierre Trudeau.

Zenon Trudeau and François Saucier in reaction to American plans to build a military post about twelve miles ( 19 km ) downstream.

He visited Ottawa during this tour and had a private meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, during which he spoke about the principles of TM and " the possibility of structuring an ideal society.

In the two CBC Television mini-series about Pierre Trudeau, Trudeau and Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making, Douglas is portrayed by Eric Peterson.

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 ”.

And it may well be that a certain number of Quebecers did and may even now feel " had " both about the nature of that deal and how Trudeau ( a Quebecer himself ) went about reaching it.

Asked about her role in a marriage to the prime minister, Margaret Trudeau said, " I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

Famous protests of the RIN include a 1964 demonstration disapproving the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Quebec, and a 1968 protest about the presence of Pierre Trudeau on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day that turned to riot.

Following the election Trudeau said he was undecided about seeking the leadership and months later announced he would not seek the post due to his young family.

Trudeau, once he became prime minister, invited Gordon to join his Cabinet in April 1968, but Gordon declined, over some misgivings about being able to work successfully with Trudeau, and decided not to run again for office in the June 1968 general election.

Trudeau mentioned the words " fuddle duddle " in an ambiguous answer to questions about what he may or may not have said in Parliament.