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Article: Trudeau's legacy.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Our view of Pierre Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister for almost sixteen years, from 1968 to 1984 with an interruption in 1979, is far different from that of the media out of Toronto during the five days of his funeral ending on October 3. That's why Catholic Insight brings three commentaries instead of one.
According to the media Trudeau was "a man like no other." He was a prince, a man of vision, a charismatic hero who saved our national unity, and provided us with a blueprint "for a country that prizes tolerance, compassion and social justice, both domestically and internationally" (Jean Chretien). He set a model, we are told, for the whole world to imitate. He ...