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

Trudeau responded that he was not interested in seeking the position so early in his career.

Voters gave a mix of compliments and criticisms to the winner, Pierre Trudeau, who responded by noting that he was " at once surprised and quite pleased with the information.

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

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.

Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.

That month, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, the publishers of collections of Doonesbury until the mid-1980s, took out an ad in the New York Times Book Review, marking the occasion by saying: It ’ s nice for Trudeau and Doonesbury to be so honored, " but it ’ s quite another thing when the Establishment clutches all of Walden Commune to its bosom.

A Doonesbury Special was produced and directed by Trudeau, along with John Hubley ( who died during the storyboarding stage ) and Faith Hubley.

The unnamed college attended by the main characters was later given the name " Walden College ", revealed to be in Connecticut ( the same state as Yale ), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation, slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure — issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters graduated.

Later, George W. Bush was symbolized by a Stetson hat atop the same invisible point, because he was Governor of Texas prior to his presidency ( Trudeau accused him of being “ all hat and no cattle ”, reiterating the characterization of Bush by columnist Molly Ivins ).

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.

Pierre Trudeau is credited with, throughout his tenure as prime minister between 1968 and 1984, consolidating power in the PMO, which is itself filled by political and administrative staff selected at the prime minister's discretion.

The family had become quite wealthy by the time Trudeau was in his teens, as his father sold his prosperous gas station business to Imperial Oil.

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.

From the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, Trudeau was primarily based in Montreal and was seen by many as an intellectual.

In his memoirs, published in 1993, Trudeau wrote that during the 1950s, he wanted to teach at the Université de Montréal, but was blacklisted three times from doing so by Maurice Duplessis, then Premier of Quebec.

Trudeau famously defended the decriminalization of homosexual acts segment of the bill by telling reporters that " there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation ", adding that " what's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code ".

His election campaign benefited from an unprecedented wave of personal popularity called " Trudeaumania " — a term coined by journalist Lubor J. Zink — which saw Trudeau mobbed by throngs of youths.

A mobster said that in 1974 he was hired by New York State mafia members to kill Trudeau, hoping to lure Castro to a funeral, where they would kill him.

Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader ; however, before a leadership convention could be held, Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of Non-Confidence, in mid-December, 1979.

Further, officials in the United Kingdom indicated that the British parliament was under no obligation to fulfill any request for legal changes made by Trudeau, particularly if Canadian convention was not being followed.

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.

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

* Trudeau received “ Certificates of Achievement ” from the US Army 4th Battalion 67th Armor Regiment and the Ready First Brigade in 1991 for his comic strips dealing with the first Gulf War.

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

Mulroney criticizes Trudeau for avoiding military service in World War II, and favourably references sources that describe the young Trudeau as holding anti-Semitic nationalist views and having an admiration for fascist dictators.

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

The circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canada's history, invoked by Governor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau.

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.

Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked Canada's War Measures Act which allowed mass raids and arrests to take place in order to find Laporte's kidnappers.

Bourassa requested that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoke the War Measures Act.

Many of Dixon's predictions proved false, such as her claims that a dispute over the offshore Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu would trigger the start of World War III in 1958, that Walter Reuther, an American labor union leader, would run for President of the United States in the 1964 presidential election, that the second child of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his young wife Margaret would be a girl ( it was a boy ), and that the Russians would be the first to put men on the moon.

The then Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, himself a French Canadian, invoked the War Measures Act, declared martial law in Quebec, and arrested the kidnappers by the end of the year.

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

Trudeau also addresses the nation in a televised speech explaining why he invoked the War Measures Act.

CBC Television announced in July 2006 that Justin Trudeau would appear in the two-part miniseries, The Great War, portraying Talbot Mercer Papineau ( 1883 – 1917 ).

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

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.

The CCLA notably spoke out vigorously against the 1970 invocation of the War Measures Act by then Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau in response to the October Crisis in Quebec.

After Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act during the October Crisis, she quit the Liberal Party and joined the New Democratic Party.

In October 1970, Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau proclaimed a state of " apprehended insurrection " under the War Measures Act in response to the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner James Cross by Quebec separatists.

Arthur Gilbert Trudeau ( July 5, 1902 in Middlebury, Vermont – June 5, 1991, Chevy Chase, Maryland ) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army best known for his command of the 7th Infantry Division during the battle of Battle of Pork Chop Hill during the Korean War

The October 1973 Yom Kippur War and the ensuing 1973 oil crisis led the federal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to re-examine all Canadian energy production, including the potential nationalization of Alberta's oil, as well as an expansion of DEVCO coal production, reversing the recommendation of the 1966 Donald Commission to phase out production and diversify the Sydney area economy.