Canadian Prime Minister:Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Civic Study

Grace Chen

Early years

• University of Montreal

• Harvard University

• Businessman and lawyer

• Minister of Justice– 1967-1968– decriminalization of homosexual acts– legalization of contraception, abortion, and

lotteries

Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s rise to power

• Prime Minister Pearson step down in 1967• Trudeau race for the Liberal leadership• Energetic campaign• Generational change

Lester B. Pearson Pierre Elliott Trudeau John Turner

Pierre Elliott Trudeau became prime minister in Canada(1980-1984)

• 15th PM in 1968

• Announced resignation in 1979

• Progressive Conservative, Joe Clark

• Trudeau was recalled and became PM once again in 1980.

Welcome to the 1980’s

Accomplishments as PM

• Quebec referendum– Called by Quebec’s Parti Quebecois (PQ)– First referendum in Quebec– PQ government was defeated

• Partition of Canadian Constitution – Charter of Rights and Freedom– Bill of Right– Successful in 1982

Final years

• No longer fame

• Retired in 1984

• Speeches

• Memoirs

• Died in 2000 by cancer

Thank you for listening

Works Cited:“Memoirs.” Amazon.com. 2009

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0771085877/cleverjsmusicias/ref=nosim“Pierre Elliott Trudeau.” The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics, Collections Canada. Januar

y 29, 2002http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/2/4/h4-3375-e.html

“Pierre Trudeau.” Canada History. 2008http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/Politics/pm/pierretrudeau.htm

“Pierre Trudeau 2.” Fact-index. http://www.fact-index.com/p/pi/pierre_trudeau.html

“Quebec Referendum.” Encyclopedia, The CANADIAN, Historica-Dominion. 2009http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006601

Sauerwein, Stan. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Canada: Altitude Publishing, May 18, 2004“Senate Reform in Canada.” Maple Leaf Web.

http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/senate-reform-canada“The Right Honorable” Canadian Websites. July 19, 1998

http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/trudeau.htm“Top Ten Greatest Canadians.” Pierre Elliott Trudeau, CBC. 2010

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/trudeau-pierre.htmlVastel, Michel. The outsider: The life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1990