Pierre Trudeau.

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Pierre Trudeau

Pierre Trudeau, a former Prime Minister of Canada, was once described as a French Canadian proud of his identity and culture. Trudeau was a political writer, constitutional lawyer and the Prime Minister of Canada. This short essay will describe his past and explain the political role which he played in Canada during the 1970’s.

Trudeau was born into a wealthy family; he was the son of a successful French Canadian businessman and a mother of a Scottish background. Born in 1921, Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures in the Canadian politics.

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Graduating from extraordinary institutions such as Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Trudeau returned to Canada in 1949 and resumed his interest in social science. At this time in Quebec, the province was experiencing tremendous cultural and political differences with the rest of the country. The Union Nationale had taken possession of political matters in Quebec and was steadily dismantling the socialist essence imposed on the province by the Federal government. The current Prime Minister, Maurice Duplessis, found himself battling a religious nationalist movement that corrupted the very heart of political stability in Quebec. Trudeau believed that Democracy ...

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