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{{Short description|Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)}}
{{Redirect|Pierre Elliott Trudeau}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix  = [[The Right Honourable]]
| honorific_suffix  = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CC|CH|QC|FRSC|size=100%}}
| image             = Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg
| alt               = A press photo of Trudeau taken in 1975
| caption           = Trudeau in 1975
| order             = 15th
| office            = Prime Minister of Canada
| deputy            = [[Allan MacEachen]]
| predecessor       = [[Joe Clark]]
| successor         = [[John Turner]]
| term_start        = March 3, 1980
| term_end          = June 30, 1984
| monarch           = [[Elizabeth II]]
| governor_general  = {{plainlist|
* [[Edward Schreyer]]
* [[Jeanne Sauvé]]}}
| term_start2       = April 20, 1968
| term_end2         = June 4, 1979
| monarch2          = Elizabeth II
| governor_general2 = {{plainlist|
* [[Roland Michener]]
* [[Jules Léger]]
* Edward Schreyer
}}
| deputy2           = Allan MacEachen (1977–1979)
| predecessor2      = [[Lester B. Pearson]]
| successor2        = Joe Clark
| office3           = [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition]]
| term_start3       = June 4, 1979
| term_end3         = March 3, 1980
| predecessor3      = Joe Clark
| successor3        = Joe Clark
| office4           = [[Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada|Leader of the Liberal Party]]
| term_start4       = April 6, 1968
| term_end4         = June 16, 1984
| predecessor4      = Lester B. Pearson
| successor4        = John Turner
| office5           = [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|Minister of Justice<br />Attorney General of Canada]]
| term_start5       = April 4, 1967
| term_end5         = July 5, 1968
| prime_minister5   = {{plainlist|
* Lester B. Pearson
* ''Himself''
}}
| predecessor5      = [[Louis Cardin]]
| successor5        = John Turner
| riding8           = [[Mount Royal (electoral district)|Mount Royal]]
| parliament8       = Canadian
| term_start8       = November 8, 1965
| term_end8         = September 4, 1984
| predecessor8      = [[Alan Macnaughton]]
| successor8        = [[Sheila Finestone]]
| birth_name        = Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1919|10|18|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Montreal]], Quebec, Canada
| death_date        = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|mf=yes|2000|9|28|1919|10|18}} }}
| death_place       = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| resting_place     = [[St-Rémi-de-Napierville Cemetery|Saint-Rémi Cemetery]], [[Saint-Rémi, Quebec|Saint-Rémi]], Quebec
| party             = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] (from 1965)
| other_party       = {{plainlist|
* [[New Democratic Party|New Democratic]] (1961–1965)
* [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] (until 1961)
}}
| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Margaret Trudeau|Margaret Sinclair]]|1971|1984|end=div}}
| children          = 4, including [[Justin Trudeau|Justin]], [[Alexandre Trudeau|Alexandre]], [[Michel Trudeau|Michel]]
| father            = [[Charles-Émile Trudeau]]
| relatives         = [[Trudeau family]]
| alma_mater        = {{plainlist|
* [[Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf]] ([[Quebec College Diploma|DEC]])
* [[Université de Montréal]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
* [[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
* [[Sciences Po]]
* [[London School of Economics]]
}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Politician|lawyer|jurist|academic|author|journalist}}
| profession        =
| signature         = Pierre Trudeau Signature 2.svg
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| allegiance        = Canada
| branch            = [[Canadian Army]]
| unit              = [[Canadian Officers' Training Corps]]
| service_years     = 1943–1945
| rank              = [[Officer cadet|Officer Cadet]]
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'''Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau'''{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|r|uː|d|oʊ|,_|t|r|uː|ˈ|d|oʊ}} {{respell|TROO|doh|,_|troo|DOH}}; {{IPA|fr|pjɛʁ tʁydo|lang}}}} (October 18, 1919&nbsp;– September 28, 2000) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, jurist, academic, author, and journalist who served as the 15th [[prime minister of Canada]] from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between his non-consecutive terms as prime minister from 1979 to 1980, he served as the [[Leader of the Opposition (Canada)|Leader of the Opposition]].

Trudeau was born and raised in [[Outremont]], Quebec, and studied politics and law. In 1950, he co-founded ''[[Cité Libre]]'' and rose to prominence as a labour activist in Quebec politics by opposing the conservative [[Union Nationale (Quebec)|Union Nationale]] government. Trudeau was then an associate professor of law at the [[Université de Montréal]]. He was originally part of the social democratic [[New Democratic Party]] (NDP), but then joined the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] in 1965 on the belief that the NDP could not achieve power. In the election [[1965 Canadian federal election|that year]], he was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]], and was quickly appointed as prime minister [[Lester B. Pearson]]'s [[parliamentary secretary]]. Trudeau was [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|minister of justice and attorney general]] from 1967 to 1968, during which time he liberalized [[divorce]] and [[Abortion in Canada|abortion]] laws and decriminalized [[LGBTQ people in Canada|homosexuality]]. His outgoing personality and charisma caused a sensation, termed "[[Trudeaumania]]", which helped him win the [[Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada|leadership of the Liberal Party]] in [[1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|1968]]. He then succeeded Pearson and became prime minister of Canada.

From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, Trudeau dominated the Canadian political scene. After his appointment as prime minister, he led the Liberals to victory in the [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968]], [[1972 Canadian federal election|1972]], and [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974]] federal elections, before narrowly losing in [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979]]. He won a fourth election victory shortly afterwards, in [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980]]. Trudeau is the most recent prime minister to win four federal elections (having won three [[majority government]]s and one [[minority government]]) and to serve non-consecutive terms. His tenure of 15 years and 164 days makes him the [[List of Prime Ministers of Canada by time in office|third longest-serving prime minister]] in Canadian history, behind [[John A. Macdonald]] and [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]].

[[Premierships of Pierre Trudeau|As prime minister]], Trudeau pioneered [[Official bilingualism in Canada|official bilingualism]] and [[multiculturalism in Canada|multiculturalism]]. Amid the [[Quebec sovereignty movement]], he invoked the ''[[War Measures Act]]'' in response to the 1970 [[October Crisis]] and later led the federalist campaign to victory in the [[1980 Quebec referendum|1980 Quebec sovereignty-association referendum]]. In economic policy, he introduced the [[capital gains tax]], expanded [[Social programs in Canada|social programs]], sharply increased [[deficit spending]], and introduced the ''[[Anti-Inflation Act]]'' in response to the [[1973–1975 recession|1970s recession]]. In a bid to move the Liberal Party towards [[economic nationalism]], Trudeau established [[Petro-Canada]] and launched the [[National Energy Program]], both of which generated significant controversy in [[Petroleum industry in Canada|oil]]-rich [[Western Canada]] and led to a rise in what was called "[[Western alienation]]". Trudeau's government also [[metrication in Canada|converted Canada to the metric system]], created [[Via Rail]], and passed the ''[[Access to Information Act]]'' and the ''[[Canada Health Act]]''. In foreign policy, Trudeau reduced alignment [[Canada–United States relations|with the United States]], maintained cordial relations [[Canada–Soviet Union relations|with the Soviet Union]], and developed strong ties [[Canada–China relations|with China]] and Cuban leader [[Fidel Castro]], which put him at odds with other [[Western world|Western]] [[capitalist]] states. He also oversaw Canada's entry into the [[G7]] forum. In 1982, Trudeau [[patriated]] the [[Constitution of Canada]] and established the ''[[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]]'' with the ''[[Constitution Act, 1982]]'', which achieved full [[Canadian sovereignty]].

Trudeau retired from politics shortly before the [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984 federal election]]. In his retirement, he practised law at the [[Montreal]] law firm of [[Heenan Blaikie]]. He also spoke out against the [[Meech Lake Accord|Meech Lake]] and [[Charlottetown Accord|Charlottetown]] accords (which proposed granting Quebec certain concessions), arguing they would strengthen [[Quebec nationalism]]. Trudeau died in 2000, aged 80. He is ranked highly among scholars in [[Historical rankings of prime ministers of Canada|historical rankings of Canadian prime ministers]], but remains a divisive figure in Canadian politics. Critics accused him of arrogance, economic mismanagement, and unduly centralizing Canadian decision-making to the detriment of the culture of Quebec and the economy of the [[Canadian Prairies|Prairies]],{{sfn|Fortin (2000-10-09)|p=A17}} while admirers praised what they considered to be the force of his intellect{{sfn|Mallick (2000-09-30)|p=P04}} and his political acumen which maintained national unity throughout the Quebec sovereignty movement. Trudeau's eldest son, [[Justin Trudeau]], served as prime minister of Canada [[Premiership of Justin Trudeau|from 2015 to 2025]], and was the first prime minister to be the child of a previous prime minister.

== Early life ==
The Trudeau family can be traced to [[Marcillac-Lanville]] in France in the 16th century and to a Robert Truteau (1544–1589).{{sfn|Généalogie du Québec (2012)}}<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/robert-truteau_20306861?geo_a=r&geo_s=us&geo_t=us&geo_v=2.0.0&o_xid=62916&o_lid=62916&o_sch=Partners |title = Robert Truteau |publisher = Ancestry.com |access-date = November 4, 2015 |archive-date = September 21, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180921034427/https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/robert-truteau_20306861?geo_a=r&geo_s=us&geo_t=us&geo_v=2.0.0&o_xid=62916&o_lid=62916&o_sch=Partners |url-status = live }}</ref> In 1659, the first Trudeau to arrive in Canada was [[Étienne Trudeau]] or Truteau (1641–1712), a carpenter and home builder from [[La Rochelle]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Etienne_Trudeau&pid=6568&lng=fr&partID=6569 |title = Généalogie Etienne Trudeau |publisher =Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française |language=fr |date = January 14, 2007 |access-date = August 16, 2014 |archive-date = September 13, 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180913113127/https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Etienne_Trudeau&pid=6568&lng=fr&partID=6569 |url-status = live }}</ref>

Pierre Trudeau was born at home in [[Outremont, Quebec]], on October 18, 1919,{{sfn|English|2009|p=8}} to [[Charles Trudeau (businessman)|Charles-Émile "Charley" Trudeau]] (1887–1935), a [[French-Canadian]] businessman and lawyer, and Grace Elliott, who was of mixed [[Scottish-Canadian|Scottish]] and French-Canadian descent. He had an older sister named Suzette and a younger brother named Charles Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Généalogie Charles-Emile Trudeau |url=https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Trudeau_Charles-Emile&pid=6604 |access-date=April 15, 2023 |publisher=Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française |language=fr |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415195941/https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Trudeau_Charles-Emile&pid=6604 |url-status=live }}</ref> Trudeau remained close to both siblings for his entire life. Trudeau's paternal grandparents were French-speaking Quebec farmers.<ref name="NYT_Kaufman_20000929_Eulogy">{{cite news |last=Kaufman |first=Michael T. |date=September 29, 2000 |title=Pierre Trudeau Is Dead at 80; Dashing Fighter for Canada |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/world/pierre-trudeau-is-dead-at-80-dashing-fighter-for-canada.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525032137/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/world/pierre-trudeau-is-dead-at-80-dashing-fighter-for-canada.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |archive-date=May 25, 2013 |access-date=February 20, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> His father had acquired the B&A gas station chain (now defunct), some "profitable mines, the Belmont amusement park in Montreal and the [[Montreal Royals]], the city's minor-league baseball team", by the time Trudeau was fifteen.<ref name="NYT_Kaufman_20000929_Eulogy" /> When his father died in [[Orlando, Florida]], on April 10, 1935, Trudeau and each of his siblings inherited $5,000 ({{inflation|CA|5000|1935|fmt=eq|r=-4}}), a considerable sum at that time, which meant that he was financially secure and independent.{{sfn|English|2006|p=24}} His mother, Grace, "doted on Pierre"{{sfn|English|2006|p=25}} and he remained close to her throughout her long life.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993}} After her husband died, she left the management of her inheritance to others and spent a lot of her time working for the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and various charities, travelling frequently to [[New York City]], [[Florida]], Europe, and [[Maine]], sometimes with her children.{{sfn|English|2006|p=25}} Already in his late teens, Trudeau was "directly involved in managing a large inheritance".{{sfn|English|2006|p=25}}

== Early education ==
From the age of six until twelve, Trudeau attended the primary school Académie Querbes, in [[Outremont]], where he became immersed in the Catholic religion. The school, which was for both English and French Catholics, was an exclusive school with very small classes and he excelled in mathematics and religion.{{sfn|English|2006|pp=25–27}} From his earliest years, Trudeau was fluently bilingual, which would later prove to be a "big asset for a politician in bilingual Canada."<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" /> As a teenager, he attended the Jesuit [[French language|French-language]] [[Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf]], a prestigious secondary school known for educating elite francophone families in [[Quebec]].{{sfn|English|2006|p=27}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canoe.com/archives/infos/general/2008/09/20080917-165426.html |title=Le classement des écoles secondaires privées |language=fr |work=Canoe Infos |date=August 19, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129190141/http://www.canoe.com/archives/infos/general/2008/09/20080917-165426.html |archive-date=January 29, 2009 }}</ref>

In his seventh and final academic year, 1939–1940, Trudeau focused on winning a [[Rhodes Scholarship]]. In his application, he wrote that he had prepared for public office by studying public speaking and publishing many articles in ''Brébeuf''. His letters of recommendations praised him highly. Father Boulin, who was the head of the college, said that during Trudeau's seven years at the college (1933–1940), he had won a "hundred prizes and honourable mentions" and "performed with distinction in all fields".{{sfn|English|2006|p=65}} Trudeau graduated from Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in 1940 at the age of twenty-one.{{sfn|English|2006|p=47}}

Trudeau did not win the Rhodes Scholarship. He consulted several people on his options, including [[Henri Bourassa]], the economist Edmond Montpetit, and Father Robert Bernier, a Franco-Manitoban. Following their advice, he chose a career in politics and a degree in law at the [[Université de Montréal]].{{sfn|English|2006|p=73}}

== Second World War ==
In its obituary, ''[[The Economist]]'' described Trudeau as "parochial as a young man", who "dismissed" the [[Second World War]] "as a squabble between the big powers, although he later regretted 'missing one of the major events of the century'."<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005">{{Cite news|issn=0013-0613|title=Pierre Trudeau|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=October 5, 2000|access-date=February 22, 2020|url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2000/10/05/pierre-trudeau|series=Obituary|archive-date=February 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222190153/https://www.economist.com/obituary/2000/10/05/pierre-trudeau|url-status=live}}</ref> In his 1993 ''Memoir,'' Trudeau wrote that the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 and his father's death were the two "great bombshells" that marked his teenage years.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=37}} In his first year at university, the prime topics of conversation were the [[Battle of France]], the [[Battle of Britain]], and the [[The Blitz|London blitz]].{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=32}} He wrote that in the early 1940s, when he was in his early twenties, he thought, "So there was a war? Tough. It wouldn't stop me from concentrating on my studies so long as that was possible...[I]f you were a French Canadian in Montreal [at that time], you did not automatically believe that this was a just war. In Montreal in the early 1940s, we still knew nothing about the [[Holocaust]] and we tended to think of this war as a settling of scores among the superpowers."{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=32}}

Young Trudeau opposed [[conscription]] for overseas service,{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=32}} and in 1942 he campaigned for the anti-conscription candidate [[Jean Drapeau]] (later the [[mayor of Montreal]]) in [[Outremont (electoral district)|Outremont]].{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=34}} Trudeau described a speech he heard in Montreal by [[Ernest Lapointe]],{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|pp=32–35}} minister of justice and Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]'s [[Quebec lieutenant]]. Lapointe had been a Liberal MP during the 1917 [[Conscription Crisis of 1917|Conscription Crisis]], in which the Canadian government had deployed up to 1,200 soldiers to suppress the anti-conscription Easter Riots in [[Quebec City]] in March and April 1918. In a final and bloody conflict, armed rioters fired on the troops, and the soldiers returned fire. At least five men were killed by gunfire and there were over 150 casualties and $300,000 in damage.<ref name="CHR_Auger_2008">{{cite journal |first=Martin F. |last=Auger |title=On the Brink of Civil War: The Canadian Government and the Suppression of the 1918 Quebec Easter Riots |journal=[[Canadian Historical Review]] |volume= 89 |number=4 |date=December 2008 |pages=503–540 |doi=10.3138/chr.89.4.503}}</ref>{{rp|504}}<ref name="Granastein_1977">{{cite book |title=Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada |first1=Jack Lawrence |last1=Granatstein |first2=J. |last2=MacKay Hitsman |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1977 |isbn=0-19-540258-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/brokenpromiseshi0000gran/page/281 281] |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/brokenpromiseshi0000gran/page/281 }}</ref>{{rp|60}} In 1939, it was Lapointe who helped draft the Liberals' policy against conscription for service overseas. Lapointe was aware that a new conscription crisis would destroy the national unity that Mackenzie King had been trying to build since the end of the [[First World War]].<ref name="Betcherman_2002">{{Cite book |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-3575-2 |last=Betcherman |first=Lita-Rose |title=Ernest Lapointe |date=2002 |jstor=10.3138/9781442674592 |doi=10.3138/9781442674592}}</ref> Trudeau believed Lapointe had lied and broken his promise. His criticisms of King's wartime policies, such as "suspension of habeas corpus", the "farce of bilingualism and French-Canadian advancement in the army," and the "forced 'voluntary' enrolment", were scathing.{{sfn|English|2006|p=191}}

As a university student, Trudeau joined the [[Canadian Officers' Training Corps]] (COTC), which trained at the local armoury in Montreal during the school term and undertook further training at Camp Farnham each summer.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=34}} Although the ''[[National Resources Mobilization Act]]'', enacted in 1940, originally provided that conscripts could not be required to serve outside of Canada,<ref>''The National Resources Mobilization Act, 1940'', SC 1940, c. 13, s. 3.</ref> Parliament amended the act and removed that restriction in 1942.<ref>''The National Resources Mobilization Amendment Act, 1942'', SC 1942, c. 29, s. 3.</ref>  The [[Conscription Crisis of 1944]] arose in response to the [[Operation Overlord|Allied invasion of Normandy]] in June 1944.

== Education ==
Trudeau continued his full-time studies in law at the Université de Montréal while in the COTC from 1940 until his graduation in 1943. Following his graduation, he [[Articled clerk|articled]] for a year and, in late 1944, began his master's degree in [[political economy]] at [[Harvard University]]'s Graduate School of Public Administration (now the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]]). In his ''Memoir'', he admitted that it was at Harvard's "super-informed environment" that he realized the "historic importance" of the war and that he had "missed one of the major events of the century in which [he] was living.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=37}} Harvard had become a major intellectual centre, as fascism in Europe led to a great migration of intellectuals to the United States.{{sfn|English|2006|p=124}}

Trudeau's Harvard dissertation was on the topic of communism and Christianity.{{sfn|English|2006|p=146}} At Harvard, an American and predominantly Protestant university, Trudeau, a French Canadian Catholic living outside the province of Quebec for the first time, felt like an outsider.{{sfn|English|2006|p=134}} As his sense of isolation deepened,{{sfn|English|2006|p=137}} he decided in 1947 to continue his work on his Harvard dissertation in [[Paris]],{{sfn|English|2006|p=141}} where he studied at the [[Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris]] (Sciences Po). The Harvard dissertation remained unfinished when Trudeau briefly entered a doctoral program to study under the socialist economist [[Harold Laski]] at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE).{{sfn|English|2006|p=166}} This cemented Trudeau's belief that [[Keynesian economics]] and social sciences were essential to the creation of the "good life" in a democratic society.{{sfn|English|2006|p=296}} Over a five-week period he attended many lectures and became a follower of [[personalism]] after being influenced most notably by [[Emmanuel Mounier]].{{sfn|English|2006|p=147}} He also was influenced by [[Nikolai Berdyaev]], particularly his book ''Slavery and Freedom''.<ref name="NemniNemni2011" /> [[Max Nemni|Max]] and [[Monique Nemni]] argue that Berdyaev's book influenced Trudeau's rejection of nationalism and separatism.<ref name="NemniNemni2011">{{cite book |first1 = Max |last1=Nemni |first2 = Monique |last2=Nemni |title = Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944–1965 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fd-nSGK8c1QC&pg=PA70 |date =October 17, 2011 |publisher = McClelland & Stewart |isbn = 978-0-7710-5126-5 |pages = 70–72 }}</ref>

In mid 1948, Trudeau embarked on world travels to find a sense of purpose.{{sfn|English|2006|p=176}} At the age of twenty-eight, he travelled to [[Poland]] where he visited [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]], then [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Hungary]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Bulgaria]], and the [[Middle East]], including [[Turkey]], [[Jordan]] and southern [[Iraq]].{{sfn|English|2006|pp=176–179}} Although he was wealthy, Trudeau travelled with a backpack in "self-imposed hardship".<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" /> He used his British passport instead of his Canadian passport in his travels through [[Pakistan]], [[India]], China, and [[Japan]], often wearing local clothing to blend in.{{sfn|English|2006|pp=180–190}} According to ''The Economist'', when Trudeau returned to Canada in 1949 after an absence of five months, his mind was "seemingly broadened" from his studies at Harvard, Sciences Po, and the LSE, as well as his travels. He was "appalled at the narrow nationalism in his native French-speaking Quebec, and the authoritarianism of the province's government".<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" />

== Quiet Revolution ==
{{Main|Quiet Revolution}}
Beginning while Trudeau was travelling overseas, several events took place in Quebec that were precursors to the [[Quiet Revolution]]. These included the 1948 release of the anti-establishment manifesto [[Refus global]], the publication of ''[[Les insolences du Frère Untel]]'', the 1949 [[Asbestos Strike]], and the 1955 [[Richard Riot]]. Artists and intellectuals in Quebec signed the ''Refus global'' on August 9, 1948, in opposition to the repressive rule of Quebec [[Premier of Quebec|Premier]] [[Maurice Duplessis]] and the decadent "social establishment" in Quebec, including the Catholic Church.<ref name="Borduas_19480809">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Borduas |first=Paul-Émile |title=Refus Global Manifesto |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=July 24, 2015 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/refus-global-manifesto}}</ref><ref name="Ellenwood_200910">{{Cite book |title=The Automatiste Revolution |publisher=Douglas & McIntyre |access-date=February 22, 2020 |url=http://www.douglas-mcintyre.com/book/the-automatiste-revolution |first1=Ray |last1=Ellenwood |first2=Roald |last2=Nasgaard |date=October 2009 |isbn=978-1-55365-356-1 |pages=160 |archive-date=February 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222195419/http://www.douglas-mcintyre.com/book/the-automatiste-revolution |url-status=dead }}</ref> When he returned to Montreal in 1949, Trudeau quickly became a leading figure opposing Duplessis's rule. He actively supported the workers in the [[Asbestos strike]] which opposed Duplessis in 1949. Trudeau was the co-founder and editor of ''[[Cité Libre]]'', a dissident journal that helped provide the intellectual basis for the Quiet Revolution. In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, ''La grève de l'amiante'', which argued that the asbestos miners' strike of 1949 was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, [[Francophone]] clerical establishment and [[English language|Anglophone]] business class that had long ruled the province.{{sfn|English|2006|pp=289–292}}

== Career ==
Because of Trudeau's labour union activities in Asbestos, Duplessis blacklisted him, and he was unable to teach law at the Université de Montréal.<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" /> He surprised his closest friends in Quebec when he became a civil servant in [[Ottawa]] in 1949. Until 1951, he worked in the [[Privy Council Office (Canada)|Privy Council Office]] of the Liberal Prime Minister [[Louis St. Laurent]] as an economic policy advisor. He wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful when he entered politics later on, and that senior civil servant [[Norman Robertson]] tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on.

Trudeau's progressive values and his close ties with [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF) intellectuals (including [[F. R. Scott]], [[Eugene Forsey]], [[Michael Kelway Oliver]] and [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]]) led to his support of and membership in the party throughout the 1950s.{{sfn|English|2006|p=364}}

An associate professor of law at the Université de Montréal from 1961 to 1965, Trudeau's views evolved towards a liberal position in favour of individual rights counter to the state and made him an opponent of Quebec nationalism. He admired labour unions, which were tied to the [[Cooperative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF), and tried to infuse his Liberal Party with some of their reformist zeal. By the late 1950s, Trudeau began to reject social democratic and labour parties, arguing that they should put their narrow goals aside and join forces with Liberals to fight for democracy first.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Christo |last=Aivalis |title=In the Name of Liberalism: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left, 1949–1959 |journal=Canadian Historical Review |date=June 2013 |volume=94 |number=7 |pages=263–288 |doi=10.3138/chr.1498}}</ref> In economic theory, he was influenced by professors [[Joseph Schumpeter]] and [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] while he was at Harvard. In 1963, Trudeau criticized the Liberal Party of [[Lester B. Pearson]] when it supported arming [[Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc|Bomarc missiles]] in Canada with [[nuclear weapon|nuclear warheads]].{{sfn|English|2006|pp=183–185}}

During his time as a professor at the Université de Montréal, he was featured in [[Denis Héroux]]'s 1964 student film ''[[Over My Head (film)|Over My Head]] (Jusqu'au cou)'', appearing as himself in a political debate.<ref>{{cite news |first=Benoît |last=Aubin |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2010/09/14/des-films-oublies-de-la-belle-epoque |title=Des films oubliés de la «belle époque» |newspaper=[[Le Journal de Montréal]] |language=fr |date=September 14, 2010}}</ref>

Trudeau was offered a position at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] teaching political science by [[James Corry (academic)|James Corry]], who later became Principal of Queen's, but turned it down because he preferred to teach in Quebec.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|pp=63–64}}

== Early political career (1965–1967) ==
[[File:Trudeau Nomination.jpg|thumb|Trudeau after being nominated to represent the riding of Mount Royal, June 6, 1965]]
{{See also|Electoral history of Pierre Trudeau}}

In 1965, Trudeau joined the Liberal Party, along with his friends [[Gérard Pelletier]] and [[Jean Marchand]]. Dubbed the "three wise men" by the media, they ran successfully for the Liberals in the [[1965 Canadian federal election|1965 election]]. Trudeau himself was elected in the safe Liberal riding of [[Mount Royal (electoral district)|Mount Royal]] in Montreal. He would hold this seat until his retirement from politics in 1984, winning each election with large majorities. His decision to join the Liberals rather than the CCF's successor, the [[New Democratic Party (Canada)|New Democratic Party]] (NDP), was partly based on his belief that the federal NDP could not achieve power. He also doubted the feasibility of the NDP's centralizing policies and felt that the party leadership tended toward a "''deux nations''" approach he could not support.{{sfn|English|2006|pp=364–365}}

Upon arrival in Ottawa, Trudeau was appointed as [[parliamentary secretary]] to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and spent much of the next year travelling abroad, representing Canada at international meetings and bodies, including the [[United Nations]]. In 1967, he was appointed to Pearson's [[Cabinet of Canada|Cabinet]] as [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|Minister of Justice and Attorney General]].{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=?}}

== Minister of Justice and Attorney General (1967–1968) ==
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[[File:Trudeau, Turner, Chretien, and Pearson.jpg|thumb|Prime Ministers all: (l-r) Future prime ministers Trudeau, [[John Turner]] and [[Jean Chrétien]], and Prime Minister [[Lester B. Pearson]], in 1967]]
As Justice Minister and Attorney General, Trudeau was responsible for introducing the landmark ''[[Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69|Criminal Law Amendment Act]]'', an [[omnibus bill]] whose provisions included, among other things, the decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults, new gun ownership restrictions and the legalization of contraception, abortion and lotteries, as well as the authorization of [[breathalyzer]] tests on suspected drunk drivers. Trudeau famously defended the segment of the bill decriminalizing homosexual acts 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 (Canada)|Criminal Code]]".{{sfn|CBC News (1967-12-21)}} Trudeau paraphrased the term from [[Martin O'Malley (journalist)|Martin O'Malley]]'s editorial piece in ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' on December 12, 1967.{{sfn|CBC News (1967-12-21)}}{{sfn|O'Malley (1967-12-12)|p=6}} Trudeau also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier [[Daniel Johnson, Sr.]] during constitutional negotiations.

=== Liberal leadership convention (1968) ===
{{Further|1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election}}
[[File:Trudeau podium2.JPG|thumb|Trudeau at the Liberal convention after winning the leadership]]
At the end of [[Canadian Centennial|Canada's centennial year]] in 1967, Pearson announced his intention to step down, and Trudeau entered the race to succeed him as party leader and Prime Minister. His energetic campaign attracted widespread media attention and mobilized many young people, who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change. However, many Liberals still had reservations, given that he had only joined the party in 1965. During the convention, prominent Cabinet Minister [[Judy LaMarsh]] was caught on television profanely stating that Trudeau was not a Liberal.<ref name="Don't let the bastard win">{{cite web |title=Pierre Trudeau: 'Canada must be a just society' |url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/pierre-elliott-trudeau-philosopher-and-prime-minister/canada-must-be-a-just-society.html |url-status=live |work=CBC Archives |publisher=CBC News |location=Toronto |date=September 9, 1968 |access-date=December 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215153238/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/pierre-elliott-trudeau-philosopher-and-prime-minister/canada-must-be-a-just-society.html |archive-date=December 15, 2013}}</ref>

Nevertheless, at the April [[1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|1968 Liberal leadership convention]], Trudeau was elected leader on the fourth ballot, with the support of 51 percent of the delegates. He defeated several prominent and long-serving Liberals, including [[Paul Martin Sr.]], [[Robert Winters]] and [[Paul Hellyer]].{{sfn|English|2006|pp=476–479}}

== First premiership (1968–1979) ==
{{Main|Premierships of Pierre Trudeau#First premiership (1968–1979)}}

=== Swearing-in and subsequent election ===
As the new leader of the governing Liberals, Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister on April 20. Although the term of the Parliament was not due to expire until November 1970, Pearson's government had almost fallen before the leadership contest could even take place after a tax bill was voted down in Parliament, leading to much confusion over whether this counted as a [[Matter of Confidence|matter of confidence]] in the government. [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] [[Roland Michener]] ultimately ruled that it did not, and the government subsequently won an actual confidence motion, but the incident made it clear that the minority government Trudeau had inherited would not realistically last the full parliamentary term, and that he would soon need to call an early election in order to win a parliamentary majority.<ref>Robertson, Gordon; ''Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant''; pp. 299–301</ref> Trudeau eventually called this election for June 25, 1968.

Trudeau's campaign benefited from an unprecedented wave of personal popularity called "[[Trudeaumania]]",<ref name="Collison">{{cite news |last=Collison |first=Robert |title=New books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2016/11/20/new-books-put-trudeaumania-in-fresh-perspective.html |url-status=dead |newspaper=[[Toronto Star]] |date=November 20, 2016 |access-date=August 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807152104/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2016/11/20/new-books-put-trudeaumania-in-fresh-perspective.html |archive-date=August 7, 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|Zink|1972|p=Backcover}}{{sfn|Canada.com}} which saw him mobbed by throngs of youths. His main national opponents were [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|PC]] leader [[Robert Stanfield]] and [[New Democratic Party of Canada|NDP]] leader [[Tommy Douglas]], both popular figures who had been premiers of [[Premier of Nova Scotia|Nova Scotia]] and [[Premier of Saskatchewan|Saskatchewan]] respectively  (albeit in Trudeau's native Quebec, the main competition to the Liberals was from the [[Ralliement créditiste]], led by [[Réal Caouette]]). As a candidate, Trudeau espoused [[participatory democracy]] as a means of making Canada a "[[Just Society]]". He vigorously defended the newly implemented [[universal health care]] and [[regional development]] programs, as well as the recent reforms found in the Omnibus bill.

On the eve of the election, during the annual [[Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day]] parade in Montreal, rioting [[Quebec separatism|Quebec sovereigntists]] threw rocks and bottles at the grandstand where Trudeau was seated, chanting "Trudeau au poteau!" ("Trudeau to the stake!"). Rejecting the pleas of aides that he take cover, Trudeau stayed in his seat, facing the rioters, without any sign of fear. The image of the defiant Prime Minister impressed the public. The next day, Trudeau handily won the [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968 election]] with a strong [[majority government]]; this was the Liberals' first majority since [[1953 Canadian federal election|1953]].{{sfn|CBC News (1968-06-24)}}{{sfn|Maclean's Magazine (1998-04-06)}}

=== Social policy ===
==== Bilingualism and multiculturalism ====
Trudeau's first major legislative push was implementing the majority of recommendations from Pearson's [[Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism]] via the ''[[Official Languages Act (Canada)|Official Languages Act]]'', which made French and English the co-equal official languages of the federal government.<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Languages Act – 1985, c. 31 (4th Supp.) |url=http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/O-3.01/page-1.html |url-status=dead |work=Act current to July 11th, 2010 |publisher=Department of Justice |access-date=August 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105194649/http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/O-3.01/page-1.html |archive-date=January 5, 2011 }}</ref> More controversial than the declaration (which was backed by the NDP and, with some opposition in caucus, the PCs) was the implementation of the Act's principles: between 1966 and 1976, the francophone proportion of the civil service and military doubled, causing alarm in some sections of anglophone Canada who felt they were being disadvantaged.{{sfn|English|2009|p=141}}

Trudeau's Cabinet fulfilled Part IV of the Royal Commission's report by announcing a "[[Multiculturalism]] Policy" on October 8, 1971. It was the first of its kind in the world,{{sfn|English|2009|p=142}} subsequently being emulated by several provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba; even other countries, most notably Australia, which has had a similar history and immigration pattern, emulated the policy. Beyond the specifics of the policy itself, this action signalled an openness to the world and coincided with a more open immigration policy that Pearson had brought in. The policy recognized that while Canada was a country of two official languages, it recognized a plurality of cultures &ndash; "a multicultural policy within a bilingual framework".{{sfn|English|2009|p=145}} This annoyed public opinion in Quebec, which believed that it challenged Quebec's claim of Canada being a country of two nations.{{sfn|English|2009|p=146}}

==== Immigration ====
During Pierre Trudeau's time as Prime Minister, [[Immigration to Canada|Canada's immigration levels]] were much lower and more stable, with total arrivals often in the tens of thousands annually. The period between 1968 and 1975 averaged over 165,000 newcomers annually, with a peak of 218,500 immigrants in 1974. Due to a weakening economy, the numbers declined, averaging around 114,000 newcomers from 1976 to 1984.<ref>{{cite news |title=An Immigration System for Canada's Future |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/campaigns/canada-future-immigration-system/context.html |work=[[Canada.ca]] |date=2024}}</ref><ref name="Maclean's-Pierre Trudeau"/> The government introduced official immigration quotas in the mid-1970s, with a target of 100,000 in 1979.<ref name="Maclean's-Pierre Trudeau">{{cite news |title=The truth about Pierre Trudeau and immigration |url=https://macleans.ca/news/canada/nothing-to-write-home-about/ |work=[[Maclean's]] |date=June 5, 2013}}</ref>

Following the [[Vietnam War]], a refugee crisis was caused by the flight of the [[Vietnamese boat people|boat people]] from Vietnam, as thousands of people, mostly ethnic Chinese, fled the country in makeshift boats across the [[South China Sea]], usually to the [[British Hong Kong|British colony of Hong Kong]]. The Trudeau government was generous in granting asylum to the refugees.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=218}} By 1980, Canada had accepted about 44,000 boat people, making it one of the top destinations for them.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=219}}

==== Indigenous issues ====
{{further|The Canadian Crown and Indigenous peoples of Canada}}
In 1969, Trudeau, along with his then-[[Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations|Minister of Indian Affairs]] [[Jean Chrétien]], proposed the [[1969 White Paper]] (officially entitled "Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian policy"). The Paper proposed the general assimilation of First Nations into the Canadian body politic through the elimination of the ''[[Indian Act]]'' and Indian status, the parcelling of reserve land to private owners, and the elimination of the [[Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada|Department of Indian and Northern Affairs]]. The White Paper was widely seen as racist and an attack on Canada's indigenous peoples, and prompted the first major national mobilization of indigenous activists against the federal government's proposal, leading Trudeau to set aside the legislation.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kerr |first=Elisabetta |title=Pierre Trudeau's White Paper and the Struggle for Aboriginal Rights in Canada |url=https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=gljuh |journal=The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History |date=September 2017 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-date=March 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326233148/https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=gljuh |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=White Paper, Red Paper |url=https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/chapter-8/white-paper-red-paper |website=Facing History and Ourselves |access-date=July 31, 2019 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322183823/https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/chapter-8/white-paper-red-paper |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Death penalty ====
On July 14, 1976, after a long and emotional debate, Bill C-84 was passed by the House of Commons by a vote of 130 to 124, abolishing the [[Capital punishment in Canada|death penalty]] for all criminal offences (other than military offences) and instituting a life sentence without parole for 25 years for first-degree murder.<ref name="Radio Canada">{{cite web |title = Le grandes etapes de l'abolition |url = http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Dossiers/peinedemort/contenu_bas_03a.asp |publisher = [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio Canada]] |language = fr |access-date = November 19, 2013 |archive-date = February 22, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130222072734/http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/dossiers/peinedemort/contenu_bas_03a.asp |url-status = dead }}</ref>

=== Quebec ===
==== October Crisis ====
Trudeau's first serious test as Prime Minister came during the [[October Crisis]] of 1970, when a Marxist-influenced Quebec separatist group, the [[Front de libération du Québec]] (FLQ), kidnapped British Trade Consul [[James Cross]] at his residence on October 5. Five days later, the group also kidnapped Quebec Labour Minister [[Pierre Laporte]]. Trudeau, with the acquiescence of Quebec Premier [[Robert Bourassa]], responded by invoking the ''[[War Measures Act]]'', which gave the government sweeping powers of arrest and detention without trial. Trudeau presented a determined public stance during the crisis; when questioned by [[CBC Television]] journalist [[Tim Ralfe]] regarding how far he would go to stop the violence, Trudeau answered, "[[Just watch me]]". Laporte was found dead on October 17 in the trunk of a car. Five of the FLQ members were flown to [[Cuba]] in 1970 as part of a deal in exchange for James Cross' life, although they eventually returned to Canada years later, where they served time in prison.{{sfn|Munroe|2012}}

Although Trudeau's response is still controversial and was opposed at the time as excessive by parliamentarians like Tommy Douglas and [[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis]], it was met with only limited objections from the public.{{sfn|Janigan (1975-11-01)|p=3}}

==== Quebec provincial affairs ====
After consultations with the provincial premiers, Trudeau agreed to attend a conference called by [[Premier of British Columbia|British Columbia Premier]] [[W. A. C. Bennett]] to attempt to finally [[patriation|patriate]] the [[Constitution of Canada|Canadian constitution]].{{sfn|English|2009|p=135}} Negotiations between the provinces and Justice Minister [[John Turner]] created a draft agreement, known as the [[Victoria Charter]], that entrenched a charter of rights, bilingualism, and a guarantee of a veto of constitutional amendments for Ontario and Quebec, as well as regional vetoes for [[Western Canada]] and [[Atlantic Canada]], within the new constitution.{{sfn|English|2009|p=135}} The agreement was acceptable to the nine predominantly-English speaking provinces, but Quebec's premier Robert Bourassa requested two weeks to consult with his cabinet.{{sfn|English|2009|p=135}} After a strong backlash of popular opinion against the agreement in Quebec, Bourassa stated that Quebec would not accept it.{{sfn|English|2009|p=136}}

Trudeau faced increasing challenges in Quebec, starting with bitter relations with Bourassa and his [[Quebec Liberal Party|Quebec Liberal]] government. Following a rise in the polls after the rejection of the Victoria Charter, the Quebec Liberals had taken a more confrontational approach with the federal government on the constitution, [[Bill 22|French language laws]], and the language of [[air traffic control]] in Quebec.{{sfn|English|2009|pp=302–306}} Trudeau responded with increasing anger at what he saw as nationalist provocations against Ottawa's bilingualism and constitutional initiatives, at times expressing his personal contempt for Bourassa.{{sfn|English|2009|pp=302–306}}

Partially in an attempt to shore up his support, Bourassa called a [[1976 Quebec general election|surprise election in 1976]] that resulted in [[René Lévesque]] and the sovereigntist [[Parti Québécois]] (PQ) winning a majority government. The PQ had chiefly campaigned on a "good government" platform, but promised a referendum on independence to be held within their first mandate. Trudeau and Lévesque had been personal rivals, with Trudeau's intellectualism contrasting with Lévesque's more working-class image. While Trudeau claimed to welcome the "clarity" provided by the PQ victory, the unexpected rise of the [[Quebec sovereignty movement]] became, in his view, his biggest challenge.{{sfn|English|2009|p=308}}

As the PQ began to take power, Trudeau faced the prolonged breakdown of his marriage, which the English-language press covered in lurid detail on a day-by-day basis. Trudeau's reserve was seen as dignified by contemporaries, and his poll numbers actually rose during the height of coverage,{{sfn|English|2009|p=329}} but aides felt the personal tensions left him uncharacteristically emotional and prone to outbursts.{{sfn|English|2009|pp=327–328}}

===Economic policy===
Trudeau's first government implemented many procedural reforms to make Parliament and the Liberal caucus meetings run more efficiently, significantly expanded the size and role of the Prime Minister's office,{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|pp=22–24}} and substantially expanded social-welfare programs.{{sfn|Lyon|Van Die|2000|pp=137–144}}{{sfn|Laxer|Laxer|1977|pp=22–24}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Towards A Just Society: The Trudeau Years |editor-first1=Thomas S. |editor-last1=Axworthy |editor-first2=Pierre Elliott |editor-last2=Trudeau}}</ref>

====Deficit spending====
Trudeau's government ran large budget [[Deficit spending|deficits]] throughout its time in office.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Whitaker |first1=Reg |title=Pierre Elliott Trudeau |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-elliott-trudeau |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=December 14, 2021 |date=July 11, 2013 |quote="...and large federal deficits cut into his popular support."}}</ref> The government's [[1968 Canadian federal budget|first budget in 1968]] produced a deficit of $667 million, while the [[1969 Canadian federal budget|1969 budget]] produced a surplus of $140 million. However, the [[1970 Canadian federal budget|1970 budget]] (which produced a deficit of over $1 billion) marked the start of consecutive budget deficits run by the Trudeau government; the budget would not be [[balanced budget|balanced]] until [[1997 Canadian federal budget|1997]]. By the time Trudeau's first tenure ended in 1979, the deficit grew to $12 billion.<ref name=":CBCgraph">{{cite web|title=Canada's deficits and surpluses, 1963-2014|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/canada-deficit/|website=CBC News |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=May 27, 2023}}</ref>

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|+ List of budgets passed by the Pierre Trudeau government from 1968 to 1979 
<br />'''''$ represent [[Canadian dollar|Canadian]] billions of [[Real versus nominal value (economics)|unadjusted]] dollars'''''
|-
! Budget !! [[1968 Canadian federal budget|1968]] !! [[1969 Canadian federal budget|1969]] !! [[1970 Canadian federal budget|1970]] !! [[1971 Canadian federal budget|1971]] !! [[1972 Canadian federal budget|1972]] !! [[1973 Canadian federal budget|1973]] !! [[November 1974 Canadian federal budget|1974]] !!  [[1975 Canadian federal budget|1975]] !! [[1976 Canadian federal budget|1976]] !! [[1977 Canadian federal budget|1977]] !! [[April 1978 Canadian federal budget|Apr. 1978]] !! [[November 1978 Canadian federal budget|Nov. 1978]]
|-
| '''Surplus''' || || $0.14 || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
| '''Deficit''' || $0.667 || || $1.016 || $1.786 || $1.901 || $2.211 || $2.225 || $6.204 || $6.897 || $10.879 || $13.029 || $11.967 
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====Social programs and spending====
In 1971, Trudeau's government greatly expanded [[unemployment insurance]], making coverage nearly universal as coverage for the Canadian labour force jumped to 96 percent from 75 percent. The system was sometimes called the 8/42, because one had to work for eight weeks (with at least 20 hours per week), and wait two weeks, to get benefits for the other 42 weeks of the year. This expansion also opened the UI program up to maternity, sickness, and retirement benefits, covered seasonal workers for the first time, and allowed mothers to receive up to 15 weeks of benefits if they had 20 or more insurable weeks. The reforms increased the maximum benefit period to 50 weeks, though the benefit duration was calculated using a complex formula depending on labour force participation and the regional and national unemployment rates.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marshall |first1=Katherine |title=Benefiting from extended parental leave |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-001-x/00303/6490-eng.html |publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=April 17, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Courchene |first1=Thomas |last2=Allan |first2=John |title=A short history of EI, and a look at the road ahead |url=https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/employment-insurance/a-short-history-of-ei-and-a-look-at-the-road-ahead/ |website=Policy options |access-date=April 17, 2023 |date=September 1, 2009}}</ref><ref name="CanadianLabourUI">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Passage of the unemployment insurance act |url=https://canadianlabour.ca/passage-of-the-unemployment-insurance-act/#:~:text=1971%20%E2%80%93%20Prime%20Minister%20Pierre%20Trudeau,of%2020%20hours%20per%20week. |website=Canadian Labour Congress |date= August 5, 2018|access-date=April 22, 2023}}</ref><ref name="WelfareCanadianEncyclopedia">{{cite web |last1=Moscovitch |first1=Allan |title=Welfare State |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/welfare-state |website=Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=November 13, 2022 |date=February 7, 2006}}</ref> In 1977, the government simplified the benefit duration formula but introduced a variable entrance requirement dependent on the unemployment rate in the applicant's region; the changes also mandated that workers in areas with low unemployment regions work twice as long to be eligible for benefits as workers in high unemployment regions.<ref name="CanadianLabourUI" />

In 1973, Trudeau's government amended the ''[[National Housing Act (Canada)|National Housing Act]]'' to provide financial assistance for [[First-time home buyer grant|new home buying]], loans for [[co-operative housing]], and low interest loans for municipal and private non-profit housing.<ref name=":2">{{citation |last=Begin |first=Patricia |date=January 1999 |url=https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/modules/prb99-1-homelessness/housing-e.htm |title=Housing and Parliamentary Action |publisher=Parliamentary Research Branch |access-date=April 22, 2025}}</ref> The amendments saw the introduction the Rental Rehabilitation Assistance Program, which established that homeowners and occupants in low-income neighbourhoods could qualify for small grants to be used for home repair. Also introduced was the Assisted Home Ownership Program which allowed the [[Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation]] (CMHC) to start providing grants and subsidized interest rates to low income families (though in 1978 an amendment discontinued the provision of grant money to these families, which led to a high incidence of defaults, and in turn, necessitated that the federal government provide financial assistance to the CMHC). The amendments saw the passage of the ''Rent Supplement Act'', which enabled the CMHC to partner with private landlords, cooperatives, and not-for-profit associations to provide affordable housing; in addition, the act saw the CMHC agree to fund the difference between market rental prices and rent prices geared to the specific occupant's income. Lastly, the Canada Rental Supply Program was introduced to provide interest-free loans for 15 years to developers who agreed to allocate a proportion of units toward social housing initiatives. In order to ensure that loans contributed to the provision of low income housing, the CMHC was restricted to giving loans amounting to $7,500 or less per unit.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Goldberg |first1=M. A. |last2=Mark |first2=J. H.|year=1986|title=The roles of government in housing policy: A Canadian perspective and overview|journal=Journal of the American Planning Association|volume=51 |issue=1|pages=34–42|doi=10.1080/01944368508976798}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book|title=Keeping to the marketplace: the evolution of Canadian housing policy|last=Bacher |first=J. C.|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|year=1993|location=Montréal, Quebec|pages=164–267}}</ref>

Legislation passed in November 1968 widened eligibility for farm credit,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033597769&seq=1312 |title=Canada Year Book |date=1969 |publisher=Statistics Canada |location=Ottawa, Ontario |page=1272 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref> and in 1970 legislation was introduced aimed at improving compensation for merchant seamen and also to establish a right to maternity leave.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033598049&seq=1400 |title=Canada Year Book |date=1972 |publisher=Statistics Canada |location=Ottawa, Ontario |page=1358 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref> In 1972, an Act was passed providing for the indexation of various pensions and allowances to the consumer price index. Certain eligibility requirements for receiving training allowances were also removed.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033598031&seq=916 |title=Canada Year Book |date=1973 |publisher=Statistics Canada |location=Ottawa, Ontario |page=900 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref> One-pensioner couples benefited from a new Spouse's Allowance,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNZgAAAAIBAJ&dq=A+decade+ago%2C+the+Trudeau+government+established+the+Spouse%27s+Allowance&pg=PA7&article_id=5338,1931183 |newspaper=Saskatoon Star-Phoenix |page=A5 |date=March 8, 1985 |title=New absurdity replaces old |first=Leonard |last=Shifrin |via=Google News Archive}}</ref> while various improvements in superannuation arrangements<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/pension-plan/plan-information/public-service-pension-plan-history.html |title=Public Service Pension Plan History |date=September 12, 2012 |publisher=Government of Canada |access-date=April 22, 2025}}</ref> and in family allowances were also carried out.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033598023&seq=975 |title=Canada Year Book |date=1974 |publisher=Statistics Canada |location=Ottawa, Ontario |page=857 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWF56_J-6aEC&dq=In+1973,+the+Family+Allowance+Act+was+amended,+and+the+new+act+was+implemented+in+1974&pg=PA128 |title=Canadian Family Policies: Cross-National Comparisons |first=Maureen |last=Baker |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |date=1995 |pages=128–129 |isbn=0-8020-7786-2}}</ref>

The [[registered home ownership savings plan]] (RHOSP) was introduced in the government's [[November 1974 Canadian federal budget|November 1974 budget]]. Similar to [[Registered retirement savings plan|RRSPs]], proceeds from the RHOSP could be received tax-free for either.<ref name=BG574>{{citation |url=https://budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1974-MA-sd-eng.pdf |url-status=dead |title= Budget Speech |last=Turner |first=John N. |publisher=[[Department of Finance (Canada)|Department of Finance]] |date=May 6, 1974 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103220557/https://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1974-MA-sd-eng.pdf |archive-date=November 3, 2022 |page=20}}</ref> a down payment for the acquisition of an owner-occupied dwelling or to buy furnitures for the dwelling (or the spouse's dwelling).<ref>{{harvnb|Income Tax Act|loc=s 146.2(6)(a)(i)}} as amended by {{harvnb|S.C. 1974-75, ch. 26|loc=s 100}}</ref> Individuals who already owned a home (either owner-occupied or rented to another person) could not deduct RHOSP contributions.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1974-MA-wmam-eng.pdf |url-status=dead |title=Notice of Ways and Means Motions |publisher=[[Department of Finance (Canada)|Department of Finance]] |date=May 6, 1974 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103220606/https://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1974-MA-wmam-eng.pdf |archive-date=November 3, 2022 | page=5}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Income Tax Act|loc=s 146.2(5)}} as amended by {{harvnb|S.C. 1974-75, ch. 26|loc=s 100}}</ref> In 1976, Trudeau's government allowed for transfers of funds between the RHOSP (for instance to select a plan with better returns).<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1976-pap-eng.pdf |url-status=dead |title=Budget Papers |publisher=[[Department of Finance (Canada)|Department of Finance]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103220736/https://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1976-pap-eng.pdf |archive-date=November 3, 2022 |date=May 25, 1976 |page=3}}</ref>{{sfn|S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4|loc=s 57}} In 1977, the government tightened the rules of the RHOSP (the reforms removed the purchase of furnitures from the list of usage allowed for tax-free use of RHOSP proceeds starting in 1978;{{sfn|S.C. 1977, ch. 1|loc=s 73(3), 73(14)}} disallowed deductible contributions for a taxpayer whose spouse owned a home;{{sfn|S.C. 1977, ch. 1|loc=s 73(1)}} suspended tax-free rollover of RHSOP funds to an RRSP; and capped the lifetime of the RHOSP at 20 years).{{sfn|S.C. 1977, ch. 1|loc=s 73(5)}}

In 1977, Trudeau's government established the financial program [[Established Programs Financing]] to help finance the [[provinces of Canada|provincially]]-run [[healthcare in Canada|healthcare]] and post-secondary education system, through [[transfer payments]], by [[cash]] and [[tax]] [[Basis point|points]]. This system lasted until 1995.<ref name="WelfareCanadianEncyclopedia" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp264-e.htm|title=Established Programs Financing for Health Care|last=Madore|first=Odette|publisher=[[Government of Canada]] Depository Services Program|date=August 1991|access-date=December 18, 2022}}{{Dead link|date=April 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref name="DF94">{{cite book |publisher=Department of Finance |title=Federal transfers to provinces |date=April 1994 |location=Ottawa |page=23 |url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/fin/F1-51-1994-eng.pdf |access-date=December 18, 2022}}</ref>

In 1979, Trudeau's government restructured [[Family Allowance Act|family allowances]] by increasing the role of the tax system in child support and decreasing the role of family allowances. The government established an annual Refundable Child Tax Credit of $200 for families with incomes of $18,000 or less. As incomes increased above this level, benefits would be taxed away to disappear completely at $26,000. Since the median income for families during this time was $19,500, the majority of families received some benefit from the new program.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Guest |first1=Dennis |title=Family Allowance |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/family-allowance#:~:text=The%20Family%20Allowance%20began%20in,Canada%27s%20first%20universal%20welfare%20program. |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=November 16, 2022 |date=February 7, 2006}}</ref>

====Taxation====
In 1969, Trudeau's first [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|finance minister]], [[Edgar Benson]], introduced a white paper on tax reform which included [[tax deduction]]s for [[child care]] and advocated shifting the tax burden from the poor to the wealthy. Measures to fulfill the latter proposal included a [[capital gains tax]], which was severely criticized by corporate Canada and the business community (notably [[Israel Asper]]). The bill was debated in Parliament for over a year, with its more radical proposals being removed in parliamentary committee. The reforms managed to be passed through the use of [[cloture|closure]], with the capital gains tax (that had an inclusion rate of 50 percent) coming into effect on January 1, 1972, as prescribed by the [[1971 Canadian federal budget|1971 budget]].<ref name ="Bensonglobeandmail">{{cite web |last1=Hustak |first1=Alan |title=Unflappable finance minister rewrote Canada's tax rules |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=May 27, 2023 |url=http://www.v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20110913.OBBENSONATL/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |date=September 13, 2011 |archive-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303222855/http://www.v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20110913.OBBENSONATL/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=A primer on capital gains taxes in Canada |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/a-primer-on-capital-gains-taxes-in-canada-1.231145 |website=CBC News |access-date=May 27, 2023 |date=October 18, 2000}}</ref><ref name=":LeaderPost">{{Cite news |date= June 19, 1971 |title=Benson Reduces Taxes, Will Hit Capital Gains |agency=The Canadian Press |newspaper=The Leader-Post|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=w9EjUEod0xMC&dat=19710619&printsec=frontpage&hl=fr|access-date=June 17, 2020 |via=Google News Archive}}</ref> Also implemented in 1972 was the child care expense deduction which allowed for a deduction of up to $500 per child.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Heidinger|first1= Loanna|last2= Findlay|first2= Leanne C.|last3= Guèvremont|first3= Anne|title=Uptake of the child care expense deduction: exploring factors associated with the use of the child care expense deduction among families with a child under 12 years |journal=International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy |date=September 11, 2020|volume= 14|article-number= 12|doi= 10.1186/s40723-020-00076-0|s2cid= 256428463|doi-access= free}}</ref> As Benson had now become a political liability, Trudeau replaced him with [[John Turner]] (who was seen as a "[[Blue Grit|Business Liberal]]") in 1972.<ref name ="Bensonglobeandmail" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tuns |first1=Paul |title=30 years of Liberal infighting |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/paul-tuns-30-years-of-liberal-infighting |website=Ottawa Citizen |access-date=May 27, 2023 |date=June 16, 2014}}</ref>

In 1973, Trudeau's government fully indexed the [[Income tax in Canada|person income tax system]] (both the exemptions and the brackets) to match inflation. The indexation was made effective in 1974; during that year, inflation had jumped from six percent to double digits.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Watson |first1=William |last2=Clemens |first2=Jason |title=The History and Development of Canada's Personal Income Tax |url=https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/history-and-development-of-canadas-personal-income-tax.pdf |date=2017 |publisher=Fraser Institute |access-date=April 3, 2023}}</ref> The government also implemented three personal income tax cuts from 1973 to 1975.{{sfn|Cohen|Granatstein|1998|pp=238-239}}

====Inflation====
While popular with the electorate, Trudeau's promised minor reforms had little effect on the growing rate of inflation, and he struggled with conflicting advice on the crisis.{{sfn|English|2009|p=246}} In September 1975, [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|finance minister]] John Turner resigned over refusing to implement [[wage and price controls]].<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6suF6U71yEQ |title=Beyond Politics - John Turner |publisher=[[CPAC (TV channel)|CPAC]] |date=July 2, 2013 |via=YouTube}}</ref> In December 1975, in an embarrassing about-face, Trudeau and new Finance Minister [[Donald Stovel Macdonald|Donald Macdonald]] introduced wage and price controls by passing the ''[[Anti-Inflation Act]]'', despite campaigning against them in the 1974 election. Amongst its many controls, it limited pay increases for federal government employees and employees in companies with over 500 workers to 10 percent in 1976, 8 percent in 1977, and 6 percent in 1978. The Act also established the anti-inflation board which oversaw the implementation of wage and price controls and had the ability to recommend decreases in prices of goods, wage cuts, and rebates to customers of various services.<ref name="Wageandpricecontrols">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wage and Price Controls |url=http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/eras/eras.html |website=Canada History |access-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201224522/https://www.canadahistory.ca/sections/eras/trudeau/Wage%20and%20Price%20Controls.html |archive-date=February 1, 2023 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The breadth of the legislation, which touched on many powers traditionally considered the purview of the provinces, prompted [[Reference re Anti-Inflation Act|a Supreme Court reference]] that only upheld the legislation as an [[Peace, Order, and Good Government|emergency requiring Federal intervention]] under the ''[[British North America Act]]''. During the annual 1975 Christmas interview with [[CTV Television Network|CTV]], Trudeau discussed the economy, citing market failures and stating that more state intervention would be necessary. However, the academic wording and hypothetical solutions posed during the complex discussion led much of the public to believe he had declared capitalism itself a failure, creating a lasting distrust among increasingly [[neoliberalism|neoliberal]] business leaders.{{sfn|English|2009|pp=290-94}} The controls lasted until 1978 and the anti-inflation board was dissolved in 1979.<ref name="Wageandpricecontrols" />

====Energy policy====
On September 4, 1973, Trudeau requested that the [[Western Canadian]] provinces agree to a voluntary freeze on oil prices during [[1973 oil crisis|the ongoing Arab oil embargo]]. Nine days later, the Trudeau government imposed a 40-cent tax on every barrel of [[Petroleum industry in Canada|Canadian oil]] exported to the United States to combat rising inflation and oil prices. The tax was equivalent to the difference between domestic and international oil prices, and the revenues were used to subsidize oil imports for [[Eastern Canada|Eastern]] [[Oil refinery|refiners]]. The [[Premier of Alberta|Premier]] of oil-rich [[Alberta]], [[Peter Lougheed]], called the decision "the most discriminatory action taken by a federal government against a particular province in the entire history of [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]]." While revenues decreased for Western provinces (particularly Alberta) and for the petroleum industry, Trudeau's government subsidized Eastern consumers, angering Alberta, who successfully fought for control of its natural resources in 1930.<ref>{{cite web |title=Energy Wars |url=http://www.history.alberta.ca/energyheritage/sands/underground-developments/energy-wars/default.aspx |publisher=Government of Alberta |access-date=April 21, 2022}}</ref>

In the early 1970s, the [[petroleum industry]] was largely under foreign (mainly American) control, the recent discovery of oil in [[Alaska]] put corporate pressure on the [[Arctic Archipelago|Canadian Arctic]], and Canada's energy sector increasingly focused on North American rather than domestic needs. Trudeau's government initially rejected the idea of creating a nationalized oil company (which was perceived to secure supplies, improve revenue collection, and give governments better information on the global energy market), arguing it would be costly and inefficient. However, after the [[1973 oil crisis|late 1973 oil crisis]] saw global oil prices quadruple, questions arose about whether Canada should continue importing oil. Though Canada also exported oil at times, the provinces of Quebec and Atlantic Canada were at risk of a cut-off of imports; as a result, Canada was in need of knowing more about its potential to produce energy. In late October 1973, Trudeau's government adopted a motion from the [[New Democratic Party]] (which the Trudeau [[minority government]] relied on for support) to establish a nationalized oil company. The ''Petro-Canada Act'' was passed in 1975 (under a Trudeau [[majority government]]), resulting in the creation of a new [[crown corporations of Canada|crown corporation]], [[Petro-Canada]]. Petro-Canada was mandated to acquire imported oil supplies, take part in energy research and development, and engage in downstream activities such as refining and marketing. The corporation started with an initial $1.5 billion in capital and had preferential access to debt capital as "an agent of Her Majesty". Trudeau's government gave itself authority over Petro-Canada's capital budget and its corporate strategy, making the company its policy arm; the government also wanted the company to be mainly active on the frontiers (the oil sands, the Arctic, and the East Coast offshore areas) rather than Western Canada, where most Canadian oil is extracted. In 1976, Trudeau appointed his friend, [[Maurice Strong]], to become the first chair of the company.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Yusufali |first1=Sasha |last2=Pratt |first2=Larry |title=Petro-Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/petro-canada |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=November 6, 2022 |date=November 19, 2009}}</ref>

=== Foreign affairs ===
In foreign affairs, Trudeau kept Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ([[NATO]]), but often pursued an independent path in international relations.

Trudeau was the first world leader to meet [[John Lennon]] and his wife [[Yoko Ono]] on their 1969 "tour for [[world peace]]". Lennon said, after talking with Trudeau for 50 minutes, that Trudeau was "a beautiful person" and that "if all politicians were like Pierre Trudeau, there would be world peace".{{sfn|Canadian Press (1969-12-24)}} The diplomat [[John G. H. Halstead]] who worked as a close adviser to Trudeau for a time described him as a man who never read any of the policy papers submitted by the External Affairs department, instead preferring short briefings on the issues before meeting other leaders and that Trudeau usually tried to "wing" his way through international meetings by being witty.{{sfn|Bothwell|Granatstein|2017|p=109}} Halstead stated that Trudeau viewed foreign policy as "only for dabbing", saying he much preferred domestic affairs.{{sfn|Bothwell|Granatstein|2017|p=108}}

==== NATO ====
In August 1968, the Trudeau government expressed disapproval of the [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]], having the Canadian delegation at the United Nations vote for a resolution condemning the invasion, which failed to pass owing to a Soviet veto.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=191}} However, Trudeau made it clear that he did not want an intensified Cold War as a result of the invasion, and worked to avoid a rupture with Moscow.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=191}} In a speech in December 1968, Trudeau asked: "Can we assume Russia wants war because it invaded Czechoslovakia?".{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=18}}

In 1968–1969, Trudeau wanted to pull Canada out of NATO, arguing that the principle of [[mutual assured destruction]] (MAD) caused by a Soviet-American nuclear exchange made it highly unlikely that the Soviet Union would ever invade [[West Germany]], thereby making NATO into an expensive irrelevance in his view.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=17-18}} In March 1969, Trudeau visited Washington to meet President [[Richard Nixon]]. Although the meeting was very civil, Nixon came to intensely dislike Trudeau over time, referring to the Prime Minister in 1971 as "that asshole Trudeau".{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=50-51}} Nixon made it clear to Trudeau that a Canada that remained in NATO would be taken more seriously in Washington than a Canada that left NATO.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=51}} Trudeau himself noted during a speech given before the [[National Press Club (United States)|National Press Club]] during the same visit that the United States was by far Canada's largest trading partner, saying: "Living next to you is in some way like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt".{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=51}}

The NATO question sharply divided the Cabinet. Diplomat [[Marcel Cadieux]] accused Trudeau of "not seeming to believe in the Soviet danger".{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=18}} As a diplomat, the devout Catholic Cadieux had served on the [[International Control Commission]] in 1954–55, where his experiences of witnessing the exodus of two million Vietnamese Catholics from [[North Vietnam]] to [[South Vietnam]] made him into a very firm anti-Communist.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=16}} In late March 1969, Trudeau's cabinet was torn by debate as ministers divided into pro-NATO and anti-NATO camps, and Trudeau's own feelings were with the latter.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=22-25}} Defence Minister [[Léo Cadieux]] threatened to resign in protest if Canada left NATO, leading Trudeau, who wanted to keep a French-Canadian in a high-profile portfolio such as the Department of National Defence, to meet Cadieux on April 2 to discuss a possible compromise.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=25}} Trudeau and Cadieux agreed that Canada would stay in NATO, but drastically cut back its contributions, despite warnings from [[Ross Campbell (diplomat)|Ross Campbell]], the Canadian member of the NATO Council, that the scale of the cuts envisioned would break Canada's treaty commitments.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=25}} Ultimately, the fact the United States would be more favourably disposed to a Canada in NATO and the need to maintain Cabinet unity led Trudeau to decide, despite his own inclinations, to stay in NATO. After much discussion within the cabinet, Trudeau finally declared that Canada would stay within NATO after all on April 3, but he would cut back Canada's forces within Europe by 50%.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=24-25}} The way that Canada cut its NATO contributions by 50% caused tensions with other NATO allies, with the British government of Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] publicly protesting the cuts.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=338}}

==== United States ====
[[File:President Richard Nixon and Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau at the Parliament Building in Ottawa (cropped).jpg|thumb|Trudeau in his office in Ottawa with U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] on April 14, 1972]]
[[File:President Jimmy Carter with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.png|right|thumb|Trudeau with U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] in the [[Oval Office]] on September 9, 1977]]
Relations with the United States deteriorated on many points during the [[Presidency of Richard Nixon|Nixon presidency]] (1969–74), including trade disputes, defence agreements, energy, fishing, the environment, cultural imperialism, and foreign policy. On January 4, 1973, Trudeau voted for a resolution in the House of Commons that condemned the American [[Operation Linebacker II|Christmas bombings]] against North Vietnam between December 18 and 29, 1972.{{sfn|Hilliker|Halloran|Donaghy|2017|p=135}} As a consequence, Canadian-American relations, already under stress because of the mutual contempt between Nixon and Trudeau, reached a post-war nadir.{{sfn|Hilliker|Halloran|Donaghy|2017|p=144}} Nixon was infuriated by the resolution and refused to see Marcel Cadieux, now the Canadian ambassador in Washington, in protest for the rest of 1973.{{sfn|Hilliker|Halloran|Donaghy|2017|p=144}} Nixon was only prevented from lashing out more by his desire to have Canada continue as the pro-Western member on the International Control Commission for Vietnam.{{sfn|Hilliker|Halloran|Donaghy|2017|p=144}} Prompted by Halstead, who was known as a proponent of economic "rebalancing" by seeking closer economic ties with the EEC, Trudeau made a visit to Brussels in October 1973 to see [[François-Xavier Ortoli]], the president of the [[European Commission]], to ask for a Canadian-EEC free trade agreement.{{sfn|Hilliker|Halloran|Donaghy|2017|p=214}} Halstead used Nixon's displeasure with Canada as an argument that it was finally time for "economic rebalancing" by seeking closer ties with the EEC, a thesis that Halstead had been advocating ever since the early 1960s. Ortoli refused Trudeau's request for a free trade agreement with the EEC, saying that was out of the question, but did agree to open talks on lowering tariffs between Canada and the EEC.{{sfn|Hilliker|Halloran|Donaghy|2017|p=214}}

Trudeau continued his attempts at increasing Canada's international profile, including joining the [[G7]] group of major economic powers in 1976 at the behest of U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]].{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=?}} American-Canadian relations changed for the better when Trudeau found a better rapport with Ford's successor, [[Jimmy Carter]]. The late 1970s saw a more sympathetic American attitude toward Canadian political and economic needs, the pardoning of draft evaders who had moved to Canada, and the passing of old sore points such as Watergate and the Vietnam War. Canada more than ever welcomed American investments during the "[[stagflation]]" (high inflation and high unemployment at the same time) that hurt both nations in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Lily |last=Gardner Feldman |title=Canada and the United States in the 1970s: Rift and Reconciliation |journal=The World Today |volume=34 |issue=12 |date=1978 |pages=484–492 |jstor=40395029}}</ref>

==== United Kingdom and France====

Trudeau attached little importance to [[Canada–United Kingdom relations]]. While he rebuffed a suggestion by one of his ministers to turn Canada into a republic in 1968, he treated the [[Monarchy of Canada|Canadian monarchy]] with a certain bemused contempt.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=337}} Britain's decision to join the [[European Economic Community]] (EEC) in 1973 and Japan's replacement of the UK as Canada's second-largest trading partner confirmed Trudeau's view that Britain was a declining power which had little to offer Canada.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=337-338}} However, Trudeau was attached to the Commonwealth, believing it was an international body that allowed Canada to project influence on the [[Third World]] as it was one of the few bodies that allowed leaders from the First and Third Worlds to meet on a regular basis.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=291}} Although France was no longer as supportive of Quebec separatism as it had been under President [[Charles de Gaulle]] in the 1960s, repeated expressions of the idea of a special Franco-Quebecois bond as opposed to a Franco-Canadian bond by French politicians throughout the 1970s led to tensions between the two nations.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=345}}
[[File:1984-01 Prince Philip, Madame Mitterrand, Monsieur François Mitterrand, Queen Elizabeth and Mr. Trudeau.jpg|thumb|Trudeau, Queen [[Elizabeth II]] and French President [[François Mitterrand]] in France on June 6, 1984]]
In 1970, the Commonwealth was threatened with a split as a number of African members, supported by India, attempted to block planned British arms sales to South Africa, then under the system of [[apartheid]]. The Zambian government submitted a draft of principles which would have bound Commonwealth member states to give no assistance to nations practising racial discrimination.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=281}} The [[Labour government, 1964–1970|first Wilson ministry]] had imposed an arms embargo on South Africa in 1964, which the [[Heath ministry]] ended in 1970 on the grounds that the South African government was pro-Western and anti-communist. A number of African Commonwealth nations led by Zambia and Tanzania threatened to leave the organization if the arms sales went through. When British Prime Minister [[Edward Heath]] visited Ottawa in December 1970, his meetings with Trudeau went poorly. In what was described as a "no holds-barred" style, Trudeau told Heath that the planned arms sales were threatening the Commonwealth's unity.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=281}}

At a [[1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting|Commonwealth summit]] in Singapore in January 1971, Trudeau argued that apartheid was not sustainable in the long run given that Black South Africans vastly outnumbered white South Africans, and any external support for the apartheid government was myopic given that [[majority rule]] was inevitable.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=281}} However, Trudeau worked for a compromise to avoid a split in the Commonwealth, arguing that it needed to do more to pressure South Africa to end apartheid peacefully, and saying that a [[race war]] in South Africa would be the worse possible way to end apartheid.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=281}} The conference ended with a compromise agreement in which Britain would fulfil its existing arms contracts to South Africa but henceforth sell no more weapons to them; ultimately, the British only sold South Africa five attack helicopters.{{sfn|Phythian|2000|p=18}} Singaporean Prime Minister and conference host [[Lee Kuan Yew]] later praised Trudeau for his efforts at the summit to hold the Commonwealth together, despite the passions aroused by the South African issue.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=281}}

==== Germany ====
[[File:Jimmy Carter and other G7 economic summit leader gather for a photo op in Bonn, Germany. - NARA - 180457.tif|thumb|Trudeau with G7 leaders at the [[4th G7 summit]] in Bonn, West Germany, 1978]]
Trudeau had an especially close friendship with the Social Democratic West German Chancellor [[Helmut Schmidt]], whom he greatly liked both for his left-wing politics and as a practical politician who was more concerned about getting things done rather than with ideological questions.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=253}} Schmidt was sympathetic towards Trudeau's "rebalancing" concept, telling Trudeau that he wanted West Germany to have two North American partners instead of one, and promised at a 1975 meeting to use West German influence within the EEC to grant Canada better trade terms in exchange for Canada spending more on its NATO commitments.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=253-254}} After meeting Schmidt, Trudeau performed a ''volte-face'' on NATO, speaking at a press conference of how much he valued NATO as an alliance that was established for collective security in Europe.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=254}} To show his approval of Schmidt, Trudeau not only agreed to spend more on NATO, but insisted that the Canadian Army buy the German-built [[Leopard 1|Leopard]] tank, which thereby boosted the West German arms industry, over the opposition of the Finance department, which felt that buying the Leopard tanks was wasteful.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=254-255}} Schmidt's support was especially welcome as Wilson, once again back as the British prime minister, proved unwilling to lobby for the EEC lowering tariffs on Canadian goods, merely saying that he was willing "to interpret Canadian policy" to the other EEC leaders.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=268}} By contrast, the West German Foreign Minister [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]] gave Trudeau a firm promise of West German support for an EEC-Canadian economic agreement.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=168}} The major hold-out was France, which was stoutly opposed to an EEC-Canadian agreement, believing that giving EEC market access to Canadian agriculture as a threat to French agriculture.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=168-169}} In July 1976 a Canadian-EEC Framework Economic Agreement was signed, which came into effect on October 1, 1976.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=158}} Trudeau hoped would be the Framework Agreement would be the first step towards a Canadian-EEC free trade agreement, but the EEC proved to be uninterested in free trade with Canada.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=158}}

==== China ====
Trudeau established Canadian diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1970 and became the first Canadian prime minister to make an official visit to [[Beijing]]. On February 10, 1969, the government announced its wish to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic, and Trudeau was mortified when the Chinese refused to respond at first, which made him look foolish.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=184}} Unknown to Trudeau, the Chinese diplomatic corps had been so thoroughly purged during the [[Cultural Revolution]] that the Chinese Foreign Ministry barely functioned by early 1969. On February 19, 1969, the Chinese finally responded and agreed to open talks in Stockholm on establishing diplomatic relations, which began on April 3, 1969.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=184}} Trudeau expected the negotiations to be a mere formality, but relations were not finally established until October 1970.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=184}} The delay was largely because the Chinese insisted that Canada have no relations whatsoever with "the [[Chiang Kai-shek]] gang" as they called the [[Kuomintang]] regime in [[Taiwan]] and agree to support the Chinese position that Taiwan was a part of the People's Republic, a position that caused problems on the Canadian side as it implied Canadian support for China's viewpoint that it had the right to take Taiwan by force into the People's Republic.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=184-185}} On October 10, 1970, a statement was issued by the External Affairs department in Ottawa saying: "The Chinese government reaffirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China. The Canadian government takes note of the Chinese position".{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=185}} After the statement was issued, China and Canada established diplomatic relations on the same day.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=185}} The so-called "Canadian formula" under which a nation "takes note" of the Chinese viewpoint that Taiwan is part of the People's Republic has been often copied by other nations that have established diplomatic relations with Beijing, most notably the United States in 1979.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=185}} In October 1973, Trudeau visited Beijing to meet [[Chinese Communist Party Chairman]] [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Premier of China|premier]] [[Zhou Enlai]], where Trudeau was hailed as "old friend", a term of high approval in China.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|pp=187-188}}

In 1976, Trudeau, succumbing to pressure from the Chinese government, issued an order barring [[Sports in Taiwan|Taiwan]] from participating as China in the [[1976 Montreal Olympics]], although technically it was a matter for the [[IOC]].<ref name="As It Happens" />  His action strained relations with the United States – from [[President Ford]], future President Carter and the press – and subjected Canada to international condemnation and shame.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Trudeau, Taiwan, and the 1976 Montreal Olympics |first1=Donald |last1=Macintosh |first2=Donna |last2=Greenhorn |first3=Michael |last3=Hawes | journal= American Review of Canadian Studies | year=1991 | volume=21 | issue=4 | pages=423–448 | doi=10.1080/02722019109481098}}</ref><ref name="As It Happens">{{cite web | url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/taiwan-controversy-at-the-1976-montreal-olympics | title=Montreal Olympics: The Taiwan controversy | publisher=[[CBC Radio One]] | work=[[CBC Archives]]: [[As It Happens]] | date=July 16, 1976 | access-date=January 25, 2018 | archive-date=May 16, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516031346/https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/taiwan-controversy-at-the-1976-montreal-olympics | url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Cuba ====
Trudeau was known as a friend of [[Fidel Castro]], the leader of Cuba. In January 1976, Trudeau visited Cuba to meet Castro and shouted to a crowd in [[Havana]] "''Viva Cuba! Viva Castro!''" ("Long Live Cuba! Long Live Castro!").{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} In November 1975, [[Cuban intervention in Angola|Cuba had intervened]] in the [[Angolan Civil War]] on the side of the Marxist [[MPLA]] government supported by the Soviet Union which was fighting against the [[UNITA]] and [[National Liberation Front of Angola|FNLA]] guerrilla movements supported by the United States, South Africa and [[Zaire]] (the present-day [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]).{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} Although both Zaire and South Africa had also intervened in Angola, sending in troops to support the FLNA and UNITA respectively, it was the Cuban intervention in Angola that caused controversy in the West. Many people in the West saw the Cuban intervention as aggression and a power play by the Soviet Union to win a sphere of influence in Africa.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} Angola was amply endowed with oil, and many saw the victory of the MPLA/Cuban forces in the first round of the Angolan civil war in 1975–1976 as a major blow to Western interests in Africa. Trudeau's remarks in Havana were widely seen in the West as expressing approval not only of Cuba's Communist government, but also of the Cuban intervention in Angola.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} In fact, Trudeau did press Castro in private to pull his troops out of Angola, only for Castro to insist that Cuba would do so only when South Africa likewise pulled its forces out of not only Angola, but also [[South West Africa]] (modern-day [[Namibia]]).{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=275}} Trudeau's embrace of Castro attracted much criticism in the United States, which allowed Trudeau to appear as a leader who was "standing up" to the United States without seriously damaging American-Canadian relations.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}}

=== Re-elections ===
==== 1972 election ====
On September 1, 1972, over four years into the Liberals' five-year mandate, Trudeau called [[1972 Canadian federal election|an election for October 30]]. At the start of the campaign, polls showed the Liberals 10 points ahead of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives]] led by [[Robert Stanfield]], who previously lost to Trudeau in the [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968 election]]. However, the results produced a Liberal [[minority government]], with the Liberals winning 109 seats compared to the PCs' 107; this was one of the closest elections in Canadian history. [[Trudeaumania]] from the 1968 election had worn off, not least because of a slumping economy and rising unemployment. The NDP, led by [[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis]], held the [[Balance of power (parliament)|balance of power]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bradburn |first1=Jamie |title=How the NDP saved Pierre Trudeau's government |url=https://www.tvo.org/article/how-the-ndp-saved-pierre-trudeaus-government |website=TVO |access-date=April 23, 2022 |date=October 15, 2019 |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521052509/https://www.tvo.org/article/how-the-ndp-saved-pierre-trudeaus-government |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== 1974 election ====
In May 1974, the House of Commons passed a [[motion of no confidence]] in the Trudeau government, defeating its budget bill after Trudeau intentionally antagonized Stanfield and Lewis.{{sfn|English|2009|p=233}} The [[1974 Canadian federal election|ensuing election]] focused mainly on the [[1973–75 recession|then-ongoing recession]]. Stanfield proposed the immediate introduction of [[wage and price controls]] to help end the increasing [[inflation]] Canada was facing. Trudeau mocked the proposal, telling a newspaper reporter that it was the equivalent of a magician saying "Zap! You're frozen", and instead promoted a variety of small tax cuts to curb inflation.{{sfn|English|2009|p=237}} According to Trudeau's biographer John English, NDP supporters scared of wage controls moved toward the Liberals during the campaign.{{sfn|English|2009|p=238}}

The Liberals were re-elected with a majority government, winning 141 out of 264 seats, prompting Stanfield's retirement. However, the Liberals did not win any seats in Alberta, where Premier [[Peter Lougheed]] was a vociferous opponent of Trudeau's 1974 budget.{{sfn|English|2009|p=240}}

=== Defeat in 1979 ===
As the 1970s wore on, growing public exhaustion towards Trudeau's personality and the country's constitutional debates caused his poll numbers to fall rapidly in the late 1970s.{{sfn|Gwyn|1980|p=325}} At the [[1978 G7 summit]], he discussed strategies for the upcoming election with West German Chancellor [[Helmut Schmidt]], who advised him to announce several spending cuts to quell criticism of the large deficits his government was running.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Lawrence Martin (journalist) |last1=Martin |first1=Lawrence |title=Chrétien: The Will to Win |location=Toronto |publisher=Lester Publishing |date=1995 |pages=262–264}}</ref>

After a series of by-election defeats in 1978, Trudeau waited as long as he could to call a [[1979 Canadian federal election|general election in 1979]]. He finally did so, only two months from the five-year limit provided under the ''[[Constitution Act, 1867|British North America Act]]''.<ref name="NYT_Kaufman_20000929_Eulogy" /> During the election campaign, the Liberals faced declining poll numbers, while the [[Joe Clark]]–led Progressive Conservatives focused on "pocketbook" issues. To contrast Trudeau's image with that of the mild-mannered Clark, Trudeau and his advisors based their campaign on Trudeau's decisive personality and his grasp of the Constitution file, despite the general public's apparent wariness of both. The traditional Liberal rally at [[Maple Leaf Gardens]] saw Trudeau stressing the importance of major constitutional reform to general ennui, and his campaign "photo-ops" were typically surrounded by picket lines and protesters. Though polls predicted disaster, Clark's struggles justifying his party's populist platform and a strong Trudeau performance in the election debate helped bring the Liberals to a near statistical ties in [[Opinion polling for the 1979 Canadian federal election|opinion polls]].{{sfn|English|2009|loc=chpt. 13}}

Although the Liberal Party won the popular vote by four points, its vote was concentrated in Quebec and faltered in industrial Ontario. This allowed the PCs to win a plurality of the seats in the House of Commons and form a minority government.

== Opposition leader (1979–1980) ==
Trudeau soon announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader and favoured [[Donald Stovel Macdonald|Donald Macdonald]] to be his successor.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=265}} However, before a [[leadership convention]] could be held, with Trudeau's blessing and [[Allan MacEachen]]'s manoeuvring in the House, the Liberals supported an NDP subamendment to [[1979 Canadian federal budget|Clark's budget]] stating that the House had no confidence in the budget. In Canada, as in most other countries with a [[Westminster system]], budget votes are indirectly considered to be votes of confidence in the government, and their [[loss of supply|failure]] automatically brings down the government. Liberal and NDP votes and Social Credit abstentions led to the subamendment passing 139–133, thereby toppling Clark's government and triggering a new election for a House less than a year old. The Liberal caucus, along with friends and advisors, persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election, with Trudeau's main impetus being the upcoming referendum on Quebec sovereignty.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|pp=265–66}}

Trudeau and the Liberals engaged in a new strategy for the [[1980 Canadian federal election|February 1980 election]]: facetiously called the "low bridge", it involved dramatically underplaying Trudeau's role and avoiding media appearances, to the point of refusing a televised debate. On election day, Ontario returned to the Liberal fold, and Trudeau and the Liberals defeated Clark and won a [[majority government]].<ref>{{cite book |first = Stephen |last=Clarkson |title = The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rY64Ph2yjWoC&pg=PA103 |year = 2011 |publisher = UBC Press |pages = 87–105 |isbn = 978-0-7748-4040-8 }}</ref>

== Second premiership (1980–1984) ==
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[[File:Pierre Elliot Trudeau-2.jpg|thumb|Prime Minister Trudeau in 1980]]

The Liberal victory in 1980 highlighted a sharp geographical divide in the country: the party had won no seats west of [[Manitoba]]. Trudeau, in an attempt to represent Western interests, offered to form a coalition government with [[Ed Broadbent]]'s NDP, which had won 22 seats in the west, but was rebuffed by Broadbent out of fear the party would have no influence in a majority government.{{sfn|English|2009|pp=446-447}}

=== 1980 Quebec referendum ===
The first challenge Trudeau faced upon re-election was the [[1980 Quebec referendum|1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum]], called by the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque. Trudeau immediately initiated federal involvement in the referendum, reversing the Clark government's policy of leaving the issue to the Quebec Liberals and [[Claude Ryan]]. He appointed Jean Chrétien as the nominal spokesman for the federal government, helping to push the "Non" cause to working-class voters who tuned out the intellectual Ryan and Trudeau. Unlike Ryan and the Liberals, he refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the referendum question, and noted that the "association" required consent from the other provinces.{{sfn|English|2009|p=454}}

In the debates in the legislature during the campaign leading up to the referendum, Lévesque said that Trudeau's middle name was Scottish, and that Trudeau's aristocratic upbringing proved that he was more Scottish than French.<ref name="CBC_Reflections_20010923">{{Cite AV media| publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Melbar Entertainment Group| people = McKenna, Terence (Director), [[Ann-Marie MacDonald]] (Contributor), Michael Bliss (Contributor), [[Jean Chrétien]] (Contributor), [[Joe Clark]] (Contributor) |series=Biography| title = Reflections: The Trudeau Legacy | date = September 23, 2001}}</ref> A week prior to the referendum, Trudeau delivered one of his most well-known speeches, in which he extolled the virtues of federalism and questioned the ambiguous language of the referendum question. He described the origin of the name as Canadian.<ref name="CBC_Reflections_20010923" /> Trudeau promised a new constitutional agreement should Quebec decide to stay in Canada, in which English-speaking Canadians would have to listen to valid concerns made by the Québécois.{{sfn|English|2009|p=459}} On May 20, sixty percent of Quebeckers voted to remain in Canada. Following the announcement of the results, Trudeau said that he "had never been so proud to be a Quebecker and a Canadian".{{sfn|English|2009|p=459}}

=== Economy and oil ===
In the government's first budget, delivered in October 1980 by Finance Minister Allan MacEachen (a long-time Trudeau loyalist), the [[National Energy Program]] (NEP) was introduced. One of the Liberals' most contentious policies, the NEP was fiercely protested by the Western provinces and was seen as unfairly depriving them of the full economic benefit of their oil and gas resources, in order to pay for nationwide social programs and make regional transfer payments to poorer parts of the country. Sentiments of this kind were especially strong in oil-rich [[Alberta]], where unemployment rose from 4% to 10% following passage of the NEP.<ref name="Stamp">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Stamp |first=Robert M. |title=Alberta (Economy section) |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=April 23, 2019 |publisher=Historica Canada |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alberta}}</ref> The western provinces blamed the devastating oil bust of the 1980s on the NEP, which led to what many termed "[[Western alienation]]". Alberta premier Peter Lougheed entered into tough negotiations with Trudeau, reaching a revenue-sharing agreement on energy in 1982.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=?}} Estimates have placed Alberta's losses between $50&nbsp;billion and $100&nbsp;billion because of the NEP.<ref>{{cite journal |first = Mary Elizabeth |last = Vicente |title = The National Energy Program |journal = Canada's Digital Collections |publisher = Heritage Community Foundation |year = 2005 |url = http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/events/issues_nep.html |access-date = April 26, 2008 |archive-date = April 24, 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050424231001/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/events/issues_nep.html |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{citation |first1 = Robert |last1 = Mansell |last2 = Schlenker |first2=Ron |last3 = Anderson |first3=John |title = Energy, Fiscal Balances and National Sharing |publisher = Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy/[[University of Calgary]] |year = 2005 |url = http://www.iseee.ca/files/iseee/ISEEEResearchReportNov1805.pdf |access-date = April 26, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080626113516/http://www.iseee.ca/files/iseee/ISEEEResearchReportNov1805.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = June 26, 2008 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

This first budget was one of a series of unpopular budgets delivered in response to the oil shock of 1979 and the ensuing [[early 1980s recession|severe global economic recession]] which began at the start of 1980.<ref name="BLS_Moy_1985">{{cite journal |last1=Moy |first1=Joyanna |year=1985 |title=Recent Trends in Unemployment and the Labor Force: 10 Countries |journal=Monthly Labor Review |volume=108 |issue=8 |pages=9–22 |url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1985/08/art2full.pdf |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928163228/https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1985/08/art2full.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="independent_Hammes_2005">{{cite journal |title=Black Gold The End of Bretton Woods and the Oil-Price Shocks of the 1970s |first1=David |last1=Hammes |first2=Douglas |last2=Wills |journal=The Independent Review |volume=9 |number=4 |pages=501–511 |url=https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_09_4_2_hammes.pdf |date=2005 |issn=1086-1653 |jstor=24562081 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319021952/https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_09_4_2_hammes.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In his budget speech, MacEachen said that the global oil price shocks— in [[1973 oil crisis|1973]] and again in [[1979 oil crisis|1979]] — had caused a "sharp renewal of inflationary forces and real income losses" in Canada and in the industrial world...They are not just Canadian problems&nbsp;... they are world-wide problems."<ref name="Budget_1980" /> Leaders of developed countries raised their concerns at the Venice Summit, at meetings of Finance Ministers of the [[International Monetary Fund]] (IMF) and the [[OECD|Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD).<ref name="Budget_1980">{{citation |url=http://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1980-plan-eng.pdf |title=Budget 1980 |date=October 28, 1980 |access-date=January 27, 2015 |first=Allan J. |last=MacEachen |location=Ottawa, Ontario |publisher=Department of Finance Canada |archive-date=August 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150820003334/http://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/1980-plan-eng.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Bank of Canada]] wrote that there was a "deeply troubling air of uncertainty and anxiety" about the economy.<ref name="Budget_1980"/><ref name="Bank_of_Canada">{{citation |url=http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html |publisher=Bank of Canada |title=Inflation calculation |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510124111/http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/inflation_calc.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="canada_bubble">{{citation |url=http://canadabubble.com/charts/bank-of-canada-interest-rate-history.html |title=Bank of Canada Interest Rate History |work=Canada Bubble |access-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708113116/http://canadabubble.com/charts/bank-of-canada-interest-rate-history.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>"Uncertain Country." Canada: A People's History. CBC Television. Prod & Dir: Susan Dando. Aired: TVO: CICI, Toronto. January 10, 2005.</ref>

Amongst the policies introduced during Trudeau's last term in office were an expansion in government support for Canada's poorest citizens.<ref name="Penniman1988">{{cite book |last = Clarkson |first = Stephen |author-link = Stephen Clarkson |editor-last = Penniman |editor-first = Howard Rae |title = Canada at the Polls, 1984: A Study of the Federal General Elections |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pC3wqzDBlCcC&pg=PA98 |access-date = November 28, 2014 |year = 1988 |publisher = Duke University Press |location = Durham, NC |isbn = 978-0-8223-0821-8 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/canadaatpolls1980000unse/page/98 98–99] |chapter = The Dauphin and the Doomed: John Turner and the Liberal Party's Debacle |lccn = 87027252 |url = https://archive.org/details/canadaatpolls1980000unse/page/98 }}</ref> By the time Trudeau left office in 1984, the budget deficit was at $37 billion (fiscal year [[1984 Canadian federal budget|1984–1985]]). Trudeau's first budget (fiscal year [[1968 Canadian federal budget|1968–1969]]) only had a deficit of $667 million. Inflation and unemployment marred much of Trudeau's tenure as prime minister. When Trudeau took office in 1968, Canada had a debt of $18&nbsp;billion (24% of GDP) which was largely left over from World War II. When he left office in 1984, that debt stood at $200&nbsp;billion (46% of GDP), an increase of 83% in real terms.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.csls.ca/data/ipt2006.pdf | title=GDP figures | publisher=Centre for the Study of Living Standards | date=2006 | access-date=January 25, 2018 | archive-date=October 6, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006013324/http://www.csls.ca/data/ipt2006.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Patriation of the constitution ===
In 1982, Trudeau succeeded in patriating the Constitution.<ref name="NYT_Kaufman_20000929_Eulogy" /> In response to a formal request from the Canadian Houses of Parliament, with the consent of all provinces except Quebec, the British Parliament passed an act ceding to the governments of Canada the full responsibility for amending Canada's Constitution.<ref name="ConstAct1982">{{cite web| url = https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-13.html#h-57| title = ''Constitution Act, 1982'', Part V and s. 52(3).| date = August 7, 2020| access-date = June 24, 2021| archive-date = September 4, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210904091100/https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-13.html#h-57| url-status = live}}</ref> Earlier in his tenure, he had met with opposition from the provincial governments, most notably with the Victoria Charter. Provincial premiers were united in their concerns regarding an amending formula, a court-enforced Charter of Rights, and a further devolution of powers to the provinces. In 1980, Chrétien was tasked with creating a constitutional settlement following the Quebec referendum in which Quebeckers voted to remain in Canada.{{sfn|English|2009|p=459}}

After chairing a series of increasingly acrimonious conferences with first ministers on the issue, Trudeau announced the federal government's intention to proceed with a request to the British Parliament to patriate the constitution unilaterally, with additions to be approved by a referendum without input from provincial governments. Trudeau was backed by the NDP, Ontario Premier [[Bill Davis]], and New Brunswick Premier [[Richard Hatfield]] and was opposed by the remaining premiers and PC leader Joe Clark. After numerous provincial governments challenged the legality of the decision using their [[Reference question|reference power]], conflicting decisions prompted a [[Patriation Reference|Supreme Court decision]] that stated unilateral patriation was legal, but was in contravention of a [[constitutional convention (political custom)|constitutional convention]] that the provinces be consulted and have general agreement to the changes.

After the court decision, which prompted some reservations in the British Parliament of accepting a unilateral request,<ref>{{Cite web |first = Andrew |last = Heard |title = Canadian Independence |date= 1990 |publisher = Simon Fraser University |url = https://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/324/Independence.html |access-date = August 25, 2010 |archive-date = February 21, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090221150147/http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/324/Independence.html |url-status = live}}</ref> Trudeau agreed to meet with the premiers one more time before proceeding. At this meeting, Trudeau reached an agreement with nine of the premiers on patriating the constitution and implementing the ''Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'', with the caveat that Parliament and the provincial legislatures would have the ability to use a [[Section Thirty-three of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms|notwithstanding clause]] to protect some laws from judicial oversight. The notable exception was Lévesque who, Trudeau believed, would never have signed an agreement. The objection of the Quebec government to the new constitutional provisions became a source of continued acrimony between the federal and Quebec governments, and would forever stain Trudeau's reputation amongst nationalists in the province.

The ''[[Constitution Act, 1982]]'', including the ''Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'', was proclaimed by Queen [[Elizabeth II]], as [[Monarchy of Canada|Queen of Canada]], on April 17, 1982. With the enactment of the ''[[Canada Act 1982]]'', the British Parliament ceded all authority over Canada to the governments of Canada. The ''Constitution Act, 1982'', part of the ''Canada Act 1982'', established the supremacy of the Constitution of Canada, which now could only be amended by the federal and provincial governments, under the amending formula established by the ''Constitution Act, 1982''.<ref name="ConstAct1982" />

The Charter represented the final step in Trudeau's liberal vision of a fully independent Canada based on fundamental human rights and the protection of individual freedoms as well as those of linguistic and cultural minorities. [[Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982|Section 35]] of the ''Constitution Act, 1982'', clarified issues of aboriginal and equality rights, including establishing the previously denied aboriginal rights of [[Metis (people)|Métis]]. Section 15, dealing with equality rights, has been used to remedy societal discrimination against minority groups. The coupling of the direct and indirect influences of the Charter has meant that it has grown to influence every aspect of Canadian life and the Charter's notwithstanding clause has been infrequently used.

=== Resignation ===
By 1984, the Progressive Conservatives held a substantial lead in opinion polls under their new leader [[Brian Mulroney]], and polls indicated that the Liberals faced all-but-certain defeat if Trudeau led them into the next election.

On February 29, 1984, a day after what he described as a walk through the snowy streets of Ottawa, Trudeau announced he would not lead the Liberals into the next election. He was frequently known to use the term "walk in the snow" as a trope; he claimed to have taken a similar walk in December 1979 before deciding to take the Liberals into the 1980 election.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/trudeaus-third-walk-in-the-snow/|title=Trudeau's third walk in the snow |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=February 27, 2014|access-date=April 24, 2020|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806085725/https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/trudeaus-third-walk-in-the-snow/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Trudeau formally retired on June 30, ending his 15-year tenure as prime minister. He was succeeded by John Turner, a former [[Cabinet of Canada|Cabinet minister]] under both Trudeau and Lester Pearson. Before handing power to Turner, Trudeau took the unusual step of appointing Liberal [[Senate of Canada|Senators]] from Western provinces to his Cabinet. He advised [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] [[Jeanne Sauvé]] to appoint over 200 Liberals to [[patronage]] positions. He and Turner then crafted a legal agreement calling for Turner to advise an additional 70 patronage appointments. The sheer volume of appointments, combined with questions about the appointees' qualifications, led to condemnation from across the political spectrum.<ref name="Mulroney 1991">{{cite book |title=Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition |author-link=John Sawatsky |last=Sawatsky |first=John |location=Toronto |date=1991 |publisher=McFarlane, Walter, and Ross}}</ref> However, an apparent rebound in the polls prompted Turner to call [[1984 Canadian federal election|an election for September 1984]].

Turner's appointment deal with Trudeau came back to haunt the Liberals at the English-language debate, when Mulroney demanded that Turner apologize for not advising that the appointments be cancelled—advice that Sauvé would have been required to follow by convention. Turner claimed that "I had no option" but to let the appointments stand, prompting Mulroney to tell him, "[[You had an option, sir]]–to say 'no'–and you chose to say 'yes' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/|title=CBC Archives |website=www.cbc.ca|access-date=April 24, 2020|archive-date=January 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111045125/https://www.cbc.ca/archives|url-status=live}}</ref> (Mulroney himself soon engaged in his own series of patronage appointments.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/is-patronage-the-oil-that-keeps-our-democracy-turning |title=Is patronage the oil that keeps our democracy turning? |work=National Post |date=June 1, 2012 |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref>

In the [[1984 Canadian federal election|election]], Mulroney's PCs took slightly more than half the votes cast and 73 percent of the seats,  winning the largest majority government (by total number of seats) and second-largest majority (by proportion of seats) in Canadian history. The Liberals, with Turner as leader, lost 95 seats – at the time, the worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level (by proportion of seats).

== After politics (1984–2000) ==
Trudeau joined the Montreal law firm [[Heenan Blaikie]] as counsel and settled in the historic [[Maison Cormier]] in Montreal following his retirement from politics.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Adams|first1=Annmarie|last2=Macdonell|first2=Cameron|title=Making Himself at Home: Cormier, Trudeau, and the Architecture of Domestic Masculinity|journal=Winterthur Portfolio|date=2016|volume=50|issue=2/3|pages=151–189|doi=10.1086/689984|s2cid=164255409}}</ref> Though he rarely gave speeches or spoke to the press, his interventions into public debate had a significant impact when they occurred. Trudeau wrote and spoke out against both the [[Meech Lake Accord]] and [[Charlottetown Accord]] proposals to amend the Canadian constitution, arguing that they would weaken federalism and the Charter of Rights if implemented. The Meech Lake Accord granted Quebec the constitutional right to be a "distinct society" within Canada, which theoretically could have been the basis of a wide-ranging devolution of power to Quebec. The Quebec government potentially could have been allowed to pass any law short of secession to protect Quebec's constitutional right to be a "distinct society". Trudeau claimed in his speeches that giving Quebec the constitutional status of a "distinct society" would lead to the Quebec government deporting members of Quebec's English-speaking minority.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Newman |first1=Peter C. |title=t's time for Trudeau to muzzle himself |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1991/10/21/its-time-for-trudeau-to-muzzle-himself |access-date=November 1, 2021 |publisher=Maclean's |date=October 21, 1991 |archive-date=March 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326233149/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1991/10/21/its-time-for-trudeau-to-muzzle-himself |url-status=dead }}</ref> His opposition to both accords was considered one of the major factors leading to the defeat of the two proposals.

He also continued to speak against the Parti Québécois and the sovereignty movement with less effect.

Trudeau also remained active in international affairs, visiting foreign leaders and participating in international associations such as the [[Club of Rome]]. He met with Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and other leaders in 1985; shortly afterwards Gorbachev met U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] to discuss easing world tensions.

He published his reminiscences in <nowiki>''Memoirs''</nowiki> in 1993.{{sfn|Trudeau|1993|p=1}} The book sold hundreds of thousands of copies in several editions, and became one of the most successful Canadian books ever published.

In his [[old age]], Trudeau was afflicted with [[Parkinson's disease]] and [[prostate cancer]], and became less active, although he continued to work at his law practice until a few months before his death at the age of 80. He was devastated by the death of his youngest son, [[Michel Trudeau]], who was killed in an avalanche on November 13, 1998.

== Death and funeral ==
[[File:Trudeau family mausoleum in Saint-Remi-de-Napierville.jpg|thumb|Trudeau family [[mausoleum]]|alt=Building constructed of grey granite blocks, adorned with a cross above a metal door, and with plaques with names inscribed]]

{{Main|Death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau}}

Trudeau succumbed to several health complications at his Montreal home on September 28, 2000. His death has been attributed to his prostate cancer, Parkinson's disease, a prior battle with [[pneumonia]], as well as the depression felt following his son's death in 1998. At the time of his death, he was surrounded by Margaret as well as his sons Justin and Sacha. He was 80 years old.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sheppard |first1=Robert |last2=Beltrame |first2=Julian |last3=Janigan |first3=Mary |last4=Wilson-Smith |first4=Anthony |last5=Stevens |first5=Geoffrey |last6=O'Hara |first6=Jane |author5-link=Geoffrey Stevens (journalist) |author6-link=Jane O'Hara |title=Trudeau's Death |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trudeaus-death |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |access-date=February 19, 2025 |date=May 11, 2003}}</ref>

Following his death, Trudeau's casket lay in state in the Hall of Honour in Parliament Hill's [[Centre Block]] from September 30 to October 1, 2000.{{sfn|CBC News (2000-10-03)}} His funeral took place on October 3, 2000, at the [[Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal)|Notre-Dame Basilica]] in Montreal.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Branswel |first1=Brenda |last2=O'Hara |first2=Jane |last3=Wickens |first3=Barbara |title=Trudeau's Funeral |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trudeaus-funeral |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |access-date=February 19, 2025 |language=en |date=March 17, 2003}}</ref> Several world politicians, including U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] and Cuban leader [[Fidel Castro]], attended the funeral.{{sfn|CBC News (2000-10-03)}} His son Justin delivered the eulogy during the [[state funeral of Pierre Trudeau|state funeral]], which led to widespread speculation in the media that a career in politics was in his future.{{sfn|CBC News (2000-10-03)}}

Pierre Elliot Trudeau was interred in the Trudeau family mausoleum at [[St-Rémi-de-Napierville Cemetery]] in [[Saint-Rémi, Quebec|Saint-Rémi]], Quebec.<ref name="CBC_Grave">{{cite news |author = The Canadian Press |url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/trudeaumania-fades-at-pierre-trudeau-s-tomb-1.944392 |title = Trudeaumania fades at Pierre Trudeau's tomb |date = September 27, 2010 |publisher = CBC News |access-date = March 2, 2014 |archive-date = November 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151103210904/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/trudeaumania-fades-at-pierre-trudeau-s-tomb-1.944392 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Parks_Grave">{{cite web |url = http://www.pc.gc.ca/clmhc-hsmbc/sep-gra/pms/trudeau.aspx |title = Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada – Former Prime Ministers and Their Grave Sites – The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date = December 20, 2010 |website = Parks Canada |publisher = Government of Canada |access-date = September 24, 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150925114858/http://www.pc.gc.ca/clmhc-hsmbc/sep-gra/pms/trudeau.aspx |archive-date = September 25, 2015 }}</ref> Per his family's wishes, the burial was private and attended only by immediate family and friends.<ref>{{cite news |title='He won't be coming back anymore, it's up to us' |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/he-won-t-be-coming-back-anymore-it-s-up-to-us-1.226644 |access-date=February 19, 2025 |work=[[CBC News]] |date=November 8, 2000}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
=== Religious beliefs ===
Trudeau was [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and attended [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Mass]] throughout his life. While mostly private about his beliefs, he made it clear that he was a believer, stating, in an interview with the ''[[United Church Observer]]'' in 1971: "I believe in life after death, I believe in God and I'm a Christian." Trudeau maintained, however, that he preferred to impose constraints on himself rather than have them imposed from the outside. In this sense, he believed he was more like a Protestant than a Catholic of the era in which he was schooled.{{sfn|Trudeau|1996|pp=302–303}}

[[Michael W. Higgins]], a former president of Catholic [[St. Thomas University (Canada)|St. Thomas University]], researched Trudeau's spirituality and found that it incorporated elements of three Catholic traditions. The first of these was the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]], who provided his education up to the college level. Trudeau frequently displayed the logic and love of argument consistent with that tradition. A second great spiritual influence in Trudeau's life was the [[Dominican Order]]. According to Michel Gourgues, professor at [[Dominican University College]], Trudeau "considered himself a lay Dominican".{{attribution needed|date=May 2016}} He studied philosophy under Dominican Father [[Louis-Marie Régis]] and remained close to him throughout his life, regarding Régis as "spiritual director and friend". Another element in Trudeau's spirituality was an appreciation for [[contemplation]] acquired from his association with the [[Benedictines|Benedictine]] tradition. According to Higgins, Trudeau was convinced of the centrality of [[Christian meditation|meditation]] in a life fully lived. Trudeau meditated regularly after being initiated into [[Transcendental Meditation]] by the [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Maharishi: The Biography of the Man Who Gave Transcendental Meditation to the World|last=Mason|first=Paul|isbn=1-85230-571-1|location=Shaftesbury, Dorset|oclc=31133549|year = 1994}}</ref> He took retreats at [[Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec]] and regularly attended [[Liturgy of the Hours|Hours]] and Mass at Montreal's Benedictine community.{{sfn|Higgins, M.|2004|pp=26–30}}

Although never publicly theological in the way of [[Margaret Thatcher]] or [[Tony Blair]], nor evangelical, in the way of [[Jimmy Carter]] or [[George W. Bush]], Trudeau's spirituality, according to Michael W. Higgins, "suffused, anchored, and directed his inner life. In no small part, it defined him."{{sfn|Higgins, M.|2004|pp=26–30}} Prior to his career in politics and evident shift towards religion and to practicing Catholicism, Trudeau had been a [[secular humanist]] and worked as a board member of the [[Humanist Canada|Humanist Fellowship of Montreal]] until moving to Ottawa to become an MP in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thewalrus.ca/the-morgentaler-effect/|work=The Walrus|title=The Morgentaler Effect|last=Sumner|first=Wayne|date=January 12, 2011 |quote= He eventually joined the Humanist Fellowship of Montreal, a group that shared his commitment to rational inquiry and his disdain for religious dogma. One of its board members at the time was a certain Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and after he vacated his seat to move to Ottawa in 1965 the headstrong doctor was elected to replace him.}}</ref>

=== Marriage and children ===
Described as a "swinging young bachelor" when he became prime minister, in 1968,<ref>{{cite news |work = Vancouver Sun |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UJplAAAAIBAJ&dq=swinging%20young%20bachelor&pg=1398%2C2894663 |date = April 8, 1968 |access-date = February 1, 2013 |title = Liberal Right Wing Pushed Into Exile |page = 1 (photo caption) |quote = Swinging young bachelor, Canada's new prime minister-designate Pierre Trudeau signs autographs for youngsters during stroll on Ottawa street Sunday. He held press conference and attended memorial service for Martin Luther King. |archive-date = July 28, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200728090348/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UJplAAAAIBAJ&dq=swinging+young+bachelor&pg=1398%2C2894663 |url-status = live }}</ref> Trudeau was reportedly dating [[Barbra Streisand]] in 1969<ref>{{cite news |agency = AP |title = Prime Minister Trudeau won't tell about date with Barbra |date = November 12, 1969 |work = Windsor Star }}</ref> and 1970.<ref>{{cite news |work = Milwaukee Sentinel |agency = AP |title = Barbra Visits Commons, Members Play to Gallery |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m9cpAAAAIBAJ&pg=5211,6206488&dq=streisand+trudeau |access-date = February 1, 2013 |date = January 30, 1970 }}{{dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bcgyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5817,2172460&dq=trudeau+streisand |title = Barbra—Act 2 |work = Ottawa Citizen |date = June 8, 1970 |access-date = February 1, 2013 |archive-date = July 28, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200728090337/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bcgyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5817%2C2172460&dq=trudeau+streisand |url-status = live }}</ref> While a serious romantic relationship, there was no express marriage proposal, contrary to one contemporary published report.<ref>TVO, [http://backend.tvo.org/video/163439/author-john-english-his-book-trudeaujust-watch-me Video Interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229135932/http://backend.tvo.org/video/163439/author-john-english-his-book-trudeaujust-watch-me |date=December 29, 2013 }} of [[John English (Canadian politician)|John English]] by [[Allan Gregg]], timecode 10:45</ref>

On March 4, 1971, while prime minister, Trudeau quietly married 22-year-old [[Margaret Trudeau|Margaret Sinclair]], who was 29 years younger, at St. Stephen's Catholic Church in [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver]].<ref>{{cite news|work=Ottawa Citizen|date=October 1, 2000|access-date=February 1, 2013|author=Christopher Guly|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/life/Archive+kept+Trudeau+biggest+secret/7781606/story.html|title=Archive: The man who kept Trudeau's biggest secret|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114180005/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Archive+kept+Trudeau+biggest+secret/7781606/story.html|archive-date=January 14, 2013}}</ref>

Belying his publicized social exploits, and nicknames like "Swinging Pierre"<ref>{{cite news |last1=White |first1=Tina |title=Crowds flock to greet Pierre Trudeau at Ōhakea |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/lifestyle/104530939/crowds-flock-to-greet-pierre-trudeau-at-hakea |access-date=September 13, 2020 |agency=Manawatu Standard |publisher=stuff.co.nz |date=June 9, 2018 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601112428/https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/lifestyle/104530939/crowds-flock-to-greet-pierre-trudeau-at-hakea |url-status=live }}</ref> and "Trendy Trudeau";<ref name="Litt">{{cite journal |last1=Litt |first1=Paul |title=Trudeaumania: Participatory Democracy in the Mass-Mediated Nation |journal=Canadian Historical Review |date=March 2008 |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=27–53 |doi=10.3138/chr.89.1.27 |s2cid=154281706 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr.89.1.27?select23=&mobileUi=0&journalCode=chr |access-date=September 13, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015052142/https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr.89.1.27?select23=&mobileUi=0&journalCode=chr |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> he was an intense intellectual with robust work habits and little time for family or fun. As a result, Margaret felt trapped and bored in the marriage, feelings that were exacerbated by her bipolar depression, with which she was later diagnosed.{{sfn|English|2009|pp=242–43, 321, 389}}
[[File:Justint Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1).jpg|thumb|Trudeau's eldest son [[Justin Trudeau|Justin]] (23rd Prime Minister of Canada) at the age of 10, touring the [[Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille]] with his father on November 8, 1982]]
The couple had three sons: the first two, [[Justin Trudeau|Justin]] (born 1971), later [[List of Prime Ministers of Canada|23rd]] Prime Minister of Canada himself, and [[Alexandre Trudeau|Alexandre]] (born 1973). Both Justin and Alexandre were born on Christmas Day, two years apart. Their third son, [[Michel Trudeau|Michel]] (1975–1998), died in an avalanche while skiing in [[Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park]]. Trudeau and Margaret separated in 1977, and were divorced in 1984.{{sfn|Southam|2005|pp=113, 234}}{{sfn|McCall|1982|p=387}} He was involved with guitarist [[Liona Boyd]] for eight years during this time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liona Boyd Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/liona-boyd-mn0000145864 |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref>

When his divorce was finalized in 1984, Trudeau became the first Canadian prime minister to become a single parent as the result of divorce. In 1984, Trudeau was romantically involved with [[Margot Kidder]] (a Canadian actress famous for her role as [[Lois Lane]] in ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman: The Movie]]'' and its sequels) in the last months of his prime-ministership<ref>{{cite news|work=Ottawa Citizen|date=April 29, 1983|access-date=February 1, 2013|agency=Canadian Press|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=66MyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3107,4381909|title=Dating Superman's girl Trudeau's major impact|author=Carl Mollins|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728090333/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=66MyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3107%2C4381909|url-status=live}}</ref> and after leaving office.<ref>{{cite news|work=Ottawa Citizen|agency=CP|title=Trudeau steals the spotlight at Montreal film premiere|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c6QyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3476,799386&dq=kidder|date=August 3, 1984|access-date=February 1, 2013|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728090333/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c6QyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3476%2C799386&dq=kidder|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1991, Trudeau became a father again, with [[Deborah Coyne|Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne]], to his only daughter, Sarah.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/895866--pierre-trudeau-s-daughter-sarah-lives-under-the-radar|location=Toronto|work=The Toronto Star|first=Brett|last=Popplewell|title=Pierre Trudeau's daughter, Sarah, lives under the radar|date=November 24, 2010|access-date=April 6, 2012|archive-date=January 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124022108/http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/895866--pierre-trudeau-s-daughter-sarah-lives-under-the-radar|url-status=live}}</ref> Coyne later stood for the [[2013 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election]] and came fifth<ref name="Coyne">{{cite web |title=Deborah Coyne, mère de l'enfant illégitime de PET, sera candidate |url=http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2012/06/27/deborah-coyne-mere-de-lenfant-illegitime-de-pet-sera-candidate |website=[[TVA Nouvelles]] |location=Montreal |date=June 27, 2012 |access-date=August 7, 2017 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402222904/https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2012/06/27/deborah-coyne-mere-de-lenfant-illegitime-de-pet-sera-candidate |url-status=live }}</ref> in a poll won by Justin.

Trudeau began practising [[judo]] sometime in the mid-1950s when he was in his mid-thirties, and by the end of the decade, he was [[Judo ranks and grades|ranked]] ''ikkyū'' (brown belt). Later, when he travelled to Japan as prime minister, he was promoted to ''shodan'' (first-degree black belt) by the [[Kodokan Judo Institute|Kodokan]], and then promoted to ''nidan'' (second-degree black belt) by [[Masao Takahashi]] in Ottawa before leaving office. Trudeau began the night of his famous "walk in the snow" before announcing his retirement in 1984 by going to judo with his sons.<ref>{{cite web |last = Nurse |first = Paul |title = Pierre Trudeau and Judo? |url = http://www.judoontario.ca/download.php?file=newsletters/newsletter_2009_07_06.pdf |work = The Gentle Way (Volume 6, Issue 4) |publisher = Judo Ontario |access-date = August 1, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130523053420/http://www.judoontario.ca/download.php?file=newsletters%2Fnewsletter_2009_07_06.pdf |archive-date = May 23, 2013 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

== Intellectual contributions ==
Trudeau was a strong advocate for a [[federalism|federalist]] model of government in Canada, developing and promoting his ideas in response and contrast to strengthening Quebec nationalist movements, for instance the social and political atmosphere created during Maurice Duplessis' time in power.<ref>Gagnon (2000).</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2012}}

Federalism in this context can be defined as "a particular way of sharing political power among different peoples within a state...Those who believe in federalism hold that different peoples do not need states of their own in order to enjoy self-determination. Peoples&nbsp;... may agree to share a single state while retaining substantial degrees of self-government over matters essential to their identity as peoples".<ref>Ignatieff, quoted in Balthazar (1995), p. 6.</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2012}}

As a social democrat, Trudeau sought to combine and harmonize his theories on [[social democracy]] with those of federalism so that both could find effective expression in Canada. He noted the ostensible conflict between socialism, with its usually strong centralist government model, and federalism, which expounded a division and cooperation of power by both federal and provincial levels of government.{{sfn|English|2009|p={{page needed|date=May 2016}}}} In particular, Trudeau stated the following about socialists:{{blockquote|[R]ather than water down&nbsp;... their socialism, must constantly seek ways of adapting it to a bicultural society governed under a federal constitution. And since the future of Canadian federalism lies clearly in the direction of co-operation, the wise socialist will turn his thoughts in that direction, keeping in mind the importance of establishing buffer zones of joint sovereignty and co-operative zones of joint administration between the two levels of government{{sfn|English|2009|p=141}}}}

Trudeau pointed out that in sociological terms, Canada is inherently a federalist society, forming unique regional identities and priorities, and therefore a federalist model of spending and jurisdictional powers is most appropriate. He argues, "in the age of the mass society, it is no small advantage to foster the creation of quasi-sovereign communities at the provincial level, where power is that much less remote from the people".{{sfn|English|2009|p=133}}

Trudeau's idealistic plans for a cooperative Canadian federalist state were resisted and hindered as a result of his narrowness on ideas of identity and socio-cultural pluralism: "While the idea of a 'nation' in the sociological sense is acknowledged by Trudeau, he considers the allegiance which it generates—emotive and particularistic—to be contrary to the idea of cohesion between humans, and as such creating fertile ground for the internal fragmentation of states and a permanent state of conflict".<ref name="Gagnon2000pp16-17">Gagnon (2000), pp. 16–17.</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2012}}

This position garnered significant criticism for Trudeau, in particular from Quebec and First Nations peoples on the basis that his theories denied their rights to nationhood.<ref name="Gagnon2000pp16-17" />{{unreliable source?|date=August 2012}}  First Nations communities raised particular concerns with the proposed 1969 White Paper, developed under Trudeau by Jean Chrétien.

Trudeau and the Quebec federalist historian [[Fernand Ouellet]], who was a devout follower and admirer of Trudeau and [[Trudeauism]], frequently influenced each other intellectually in their ideas and texts  on their anti-nationalist conception of the [[history of Quebec]], though they never formed a personal friendship.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dorais |first=François-Olivier |title=L'École historique de Québec. Une histoire intellectuelle |publisher=Boréal |year=2022 |isbn=9782764627365 |location=Montreal |pages=244–247 |language=fr}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Trudeau remains well regarded by many Canadians.<ref>[http://www.ekos.com/admin/articles/torstar-16-02-2002b.html "Trudeau tops 'greatest Canadian' poll". ''Toronto Star'', February 16, 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928005551/http://www.ekos.com/admin/articles/torstar-16-02-2002b.html |date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref> However, the passage of time has only slightly softened the strong antipathy he inspired among his opponents.<ref>"The Worst Canadian?", ''[[The Beaver (magazine)|The Beaver]]'' 87 (4), Aug/Sep 2007. The article reports the results of a promotional, online survey by write-in vote for "the worst Canadian", which the magazine carried out in the preceding months, and in which Trudeau polled highest.</ref><ref>[[Brian Mulroney]], who was Prime Minister at the time of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords, and one of the chief forces behind them, sharply criticized Trudeau's opposition to them, in his 2007 autobiography, ''[[Memoirs: 1939–1993]]''. [https://www.ctvnews.ca/mulroney-says-trudeau-to-blame-for-meech-failure-1.255159 CTV News: Mulroney says Trudeau to blame for Meech failure; September 5, 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601092222/https://www.ctvnews.ca/mulroney-says-trudeau-to-blame-for-meech-failure-1.255159 |date=June 1, 2022 }}</ref> Trudeau's strong personality, contempt for his opponents and distaste for compromise on many issues have made him, as historian [[Michael Bliss]] puts it, "one of the most admired and most disliked of all Canadian prime ministers".<ref>Bliss, M. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150925095626/http://www.prime-ministers.ca/trudeau/intro.php "The Prime Ministers of Canada: Pierre Elliot Trudeau"]}} Seventh Floor Media. Retrieved: September 24, 2015.</ref> "He haunts us still", biographers [[Christina McCall]] and [[Stephen Clarkson]] wrote in 1990.<ref>Clarkson, S. and C. McCall (1990). ''Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 1: The Magnificent Obsession''. McClelland & Stewart. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-5414-3}}</ref> Trudeau's electoral successes were matched in the 20th century only by those of [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Whitaker |first=Reg |title=Pierre Elliott Trudeau |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=June 2, 2017 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-elliott-trudeau}}</ref><ref>Behiels, M. [https://targetedindividualscanada.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/competing-constitutional-paradigms.pdf "Competing Constitutional Paradigms: Trudeau versus the Premiers, 1968–1982"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220909033133/https://targetedindividualscanada.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/competing-constitutional-paradigms.pdf |date=September 9, 2022 }} Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy. Regina, Saskatchewan. Retrieved: September 24, 2015.</ref>

Trudeau's most enduring legacy may lie in his contribution to [[Canadian nationalism]],{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} and of pride in Canada in and for itself rather than as a derivative of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]]. His role in this effort, and his related battles with Quebec on behalf of Canadian unity, cemented his political position when in office despite the controversies he faced—and remain the most remembered aspect of his tenure afterwards.

Many politicians still use the term "taking a walk in the snow", the line Trudeau used to describe how he arrived at the decision to leave office in 1984. Other popular Trudeauisms frequently used are "[[just watch me]]", the "[[Finger (gesture)|Trudeau Salute]]", and "[[Fuddle duddle|Fuddle Duddle]]".

''[[Maclean's]]'' 1997 and 2011 scholarly surveys ranked him twice as the fifth best Canadian prime minister, and in 2016, the fourth best.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/canadas-best-prime-ministers/ |title = Canada's best prime ministers |magazine = [[Maclean's]] |date = June 10, 2011 |access-date = August 25, 2015 |author = Hillmer. Norman and Stephen Azzi }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Azzi|first1=Stephen|first2=Norman|last2=Hillmer|date=October 7, 2016|title=Ranking Canada's best and worst prime ministers|url=https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/ranking-canadas-best-and-worst-prime-ministers/|access-date=June 2, 2021|website=Macleans.ca|language=en|archive-date=July 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709080506/http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/ranking-canadas-best-and-worst-prime-ministers/|url-status=live}}</ref> The CBC's special on ''[[The Greatest Canadian]]'' saw him ranked as the third greatest Canadian of all time, behind Tommy Douglas and [[Terry Fox]], from the over 1.2 million votes cast by watchers of the program.

=== Bilingualism ===
{{See also|Bilingualism in Canada}}
Bilingualism is one of Trudeau's most lasting accomplishments, having been fully integrated into the Federal government's services, documents, and broadcasting (though not, however, in provincial governments, except for full bilingualism in New Brunswick and some French language service rights in Ontario and Manitoba). While official bilingualism has settled some of the grievances Francophones had towards the federal government, many Francophones had hoped that Canadians would be able to function in the official language of their choice no matter where in the country they were.

However, Trudeau's ambitions in this arena have been overstated: Trudeau once said that he regretted the use of the term "bilingualism", because it appeared to demand that all Canadians speak two languages. In fact, Trudeau's vision was to see Canada as a bilingual confederation in which ''all'' cultures would have a place. In this way, his conception broadened beyond simply the relationship of Quebec to Canada.

=== Constitutional legacy ===

The ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' was one of Trudeau's most enduring legacies.<ref name="NYT_Kaufman_20000929_Eulogy" /> It is seen as advancing [[civil rights]] and liberties and has become a cornerstone of Canadian values for most Canadians. Court challenges based on the ''Charter'' have been used to advance the cause of women's equality, establish French school boards in provinces with majority anglophone populations, and provide constitutional protection to English school boards in Quebec. Court actions under the Charter resulted in the adoption of [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|same-sex marriage]] all across Canada by the federal Parliament.

=== Legacy in western Canada ===
Trudeau's posthumous reputation in the western provinces is notably less favourable than in the rest of English-speaking Canada, and he is sometimes regarded as the "father of [[Western alienation]]".  To many westerners, Trudeau's policies seemed to favour other parts of the country, especially [[Ontario]] and Québec, at their expense. Outstanding among such policies was the [[National Energy Program]], which was seen as unfairly depriving western provinces of the full economic benefit from their oil and gas resources, in order to pay for nationwide social programs, and make regional transfer payments to poorer parts of the country. Sentiments of this kind were especially strong in oil-rich [[Alberta]].<ref name="Stamp" /> In [[British Columbia]], [[Premier of British Columbia|Premier]] [[W. A. C. Bennett]] in 1970 argued that Trudeau's government is [[Quebec nationalist]]-oriented. He also implied that Quebec received special treatment from Ottawa as a result.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hunter |first1=Iain |title=Angry Bennett declares B.C. getting a bad deal |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240411680 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |publisher=The Vancouver Sun |date=September 17, 1970 |id={{ProQuest|2240411680}} |archive-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234021/https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240411680 |url-status=live }}</ref>

More particularly, two incidents involving Trudeau are remembered as having fostered Western alienation, and as emblematic of it. During a visit to [[Saskatoon]], Saskatchewan on July 17, 1969, Trudeau met with a group of farmers who were protesting the [[Canadian Wheat Board]]. The widely remembered perception is that Trudeau dismissed the protesters' concerns with "Why should ''I'' sell your wheat?"&nbsp;– however, he had asked the [[rhetorical question|question rhetorically]] and then proceeded to answer it himself.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Wilson-Smith |first=Anthony |title=Chrétien Accused of Lying |via=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chretien-accused-of-lying |magazine=[[Maclean's]] |date=December 23, 1996}}</ref> Years later, on a train trip through [[Salmon Arm, British Columbia]], he "gave the finger" to a group of protesters through the carriage window{{snd}} less widely remembered is that the protesters were shouting anti-French slogans at the train.<ref>Anthony Westell, ''Paradox: Trudeau as Prime Minister''.</ref>

=== Legacy in Quebec ===
Trudeau's legacy in Quebec is mixed. Many credit his actions during the October Crisis as crucial in terminating the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) as a force in Quebec, and ensuring that the campaign for Quebec separatism took a democratic and peaceful route. However, his [[War Measures Act#The October Crisis|imposition of the ''War Measures Act'']]—which received majority support at the time—is remembered by some in Quebec and elsewhere as an attack on democracy. Trudeau is also credited by many for the defeat of the 1980 Quebec referendum.

At the federal level, Trudeau faced almost no strong political opposition in Quebec during his time as prime minister. For instance, his Liberal party captured 74 out of 75 Québec seats in the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 federal election]]. Provincially, though, Québécois twice elected the pro-sovereignty [[Parti Québécois]]. Moreover, there were not at that time any pro-sovereignty federal parties such as the [[Bloc Québécois]]. Since the signing of the ''Constitution Act, 1982'' in 1982 and until 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada had not succeeded in winning a majority of seats in Quebec. He was disliked by the Québécois nationalists.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070213210244/http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/readings/trudeau.htm Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Quebec and the Constitution], marianopolis.edu; retrieved July 7, 2011.</ref>

== In popular culture ==
''[[Trudeau (film)|Trudeau]]'' is a 2002 television miniseries which aired on [[CBC Television]]. It was written by [[Wayne Grigsby]], directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and features [[Colm Feore]] in the title role.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colm Feore on playing Pierre Trudeau|url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1797438200|access-date=February 25, 2021|website=CBC|archive-date=August 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809152117/https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1797438200|url-status=live}}</ref>

A [[prequel]], ''Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making'', was released in 2005. The four-hour CBC production examines Trudeau's early life. [[Stéphane Demers]] performs in the role.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM231777&R=231777| title = Toronto Public Library| access-date = May 15, 2022| archive-date = March 26, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220326233149/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM231777&R=231777| url-status = dead}}</ref>

== Supreme Court appointments ==
Trudeau chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] by the Governor General:

* [[Bora Laskin]] (March 19, 1970 – March 17, 1984; as Chief Justice, December 27, 1973)
* [[Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux]] (as Chief Justice, March 23, 1970 – December 23, 1973; appointed a [[Puisne Justice]] December 22, 1949)
* [[Brian Dickson]] (March 26, 1973 – June 30, 1990; as Chief Justice, April 18, 1984)
* [[Jean Beetz]] (January 1, 1974 – November 10, 1988)
* [[Louis-Philippe de Grandpré]] (January 1, 1974 – October 1, 1977)
* [[Willard Zebedee Estey]] (September 29, 1977 – April 22, 1988)
* [[Yves Pratte]] (October 1, 1977 – June 30, 1979)
* [[William McIntyre (judge)|William McIntyre]] (January 1, 1979 – February 15, 1989)
* [[Antonio Lamer]] (March 28, 1980 – January 6, 2000)
* [[Bertha Wilson]] (March 4, 1982 – January 4, 1991)
* [[Gerald Le Dain]] (May 29, 1984 – November 30, 1988)

== Honours ==
According to Canadian protocol, as a former prime minister, he was styled "[[The Right Honourable]]" for life.

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|- style="background:silver;" align="center"
|Ribbon || Description || Notes

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|[[File:Order of the Companions of Honour Ribbon.gif|100px]] || [[Order of the Companions of Honour]] (C.H.) ||
* July 4, 1984
|-
|[[File:Order of Canada (CC) ribbon bar.svg|100px]] || Companion of the [[Order of Canada]] (C.C.) ||
* Awarded on June 24, 1985
* Invested on October 30, 1985<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=1688&t=12&ln=Trudeau |title=Recipients |date=June 11, 2018 |publisher=Governor General of Canada |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=July 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702013758/http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=1688&t=12&ln=Trudeau |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Canada100 ribbon.png|100px]] || [[Canadian Centennial Medal|Centennial Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal]] ||
* 1967
* As a Minister of the Crown and an elected Member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]], the then Honourable Pierre Trudeau, P.C., M.P., Q.C., would be awarded the medal as a member of the [[Canadian order of precedence]].<ref name="dominionofcanada.com">{{Citation| last=McCreery| first=Christopher| author-link=Christopher McCreery| title=Commemorative Medals of The Queen's Reign in Canada| publisher=Dundurn Press| year=2012| isbn=978-1-4597-0756-6|url=http://dominionofcanada.com/commemorative_medals/index.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207135820/http://dominionofcanada.com/commemorative_medals/index.html| archive-date= February 7, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:UK Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal ribbon.svg|100px]] || [[Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal]] ||
* 1977
* As the [[Prime Minister of Canada]] and an elected Member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]], the Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau would be awarded the medal as a member of the [[Canadian order of precedence]].<ref name="dominionofcanada.com" />
|-
|[[File:Canada125 ribbon.png|100px]] || [[125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal]] ||
* 1992
* As a former [[Prime Minister of Canada]] a member of [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada]] and having been appointed to the Order of Canada, the Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau would be awarded the medal as a member of the [[Canadian order of precedence]].<ref name="dominionofcanada.com" />
|}

[[File:Blason de Pierre Elliot Trudeau.svg|thumbnail|150px|Coat of arms of Pierre Trudeau<ref>{{cite web|title=Pierre Elliott Trudeau|url=http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1784|website=Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges|publisher=[[Canadian Heraldic Authority]]|access-date=September 19, 2016|archive-date=November 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115194924/https://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1784|url-status=live}}</ref>]]

The following honours were bestowed upon him by the Governor General, or by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] herself:
* Trudeau was made a member of the [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada]] on April 4, 1967, giving him the style "[[The Honourable]]" and post-nominal "PC" for life.<ref>[http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/default.asp?Language=E&page=informationresources&sub=privycouncilmembers&doc=pcmembershistlist-P-T_e.htm#T Canada Privy Council Office] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030527081632/http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/default.asp?Language=E&page=informationresources&sub=privycouncilmembers&doc=pcmembershistlist-P-T_e.htm#T |date=May 27, 2003 }}—Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Version: February 6, 2006</ref>
* He was styled "[[The Right Honourable]]" for life on his appointment as prime minister on April 20, 1968.
* Trudeau was made a [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] (post-nominal "C.H.") in 1984.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yj69BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT74 |title=The Canadian Honours System  |date=November 28, 2015 |publisher=Dundurn Press |isbn=978-1-4597-2417-4 |access-date=December 15, 2024}}</ref>
* He was made a [[Companion of the Order of Canada]] (post-nominal "C.C.") on June 24, 1985.<ref>[http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1688 Governor General of Canada] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20060220043436/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1688 |date=February 20, 2006 }}—Pierre Elliott Trudeau—Companion of the Order of Canada, October 30, 1985</ref>
* He was granted arms, crest, and supporters by the [[Canadian Heraldic Authority]] on December 7, 1994.<ref>[http://www.heraldry.ca/top_en/top_arms_primeMinisters.htm Royal Heraldry Society of Canada] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050301225932/http://www.heraldry.ca/top_en/top_arms_primeMinisters.htm |date=March 1, 2005 }}—Arms of Canada's Prime Ministers</ref>

Other honours include:
* The Canadian news agency [[Canadian Press]] named Trudeau "[[Canadian Newsmaker of the Year|Newsmaker of the Year]]" a record ten times, including every year from 1968 to 1975, and two more times in 1978 and 2000. In 1999, CP also named Trudeau "Newsmaker of the 20th Century". Trudeau declined to give CP an interview on that occasion, but said in a letter that he was "surprised and pleased". In informal and unscientific polls conducted by Canadian Internet sites, users also widely agreed with the honour.
* In 1983–84, he was awarded the [[Albert Einstein Peace Prize]], for negotiating the reduction of nuclear weapons and Cold War tension in several countries.
* In 2004, viewers of the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] series ''[[The Greatest Canadian]]'' voted Trudeau the third greatest Canadian.
* Trudeau was awarded a 2nd dan black belt in judo by the Takahashi School of Martial Arts in Ottawa.<ref>Takahashi, M. et al. (2005). ''Mastering Judo''. USA: Human Kinetics.</ref>
* Trudeau was ranked No. 5 of the first 20 Prime Ministers of Canada (through Jean Chrétien) in a survey of Canadian historians. The survey was used in the book ''Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders'' by [[Jack Granatstein]] and [[Norman Hillmer]].
* In 2009 Trudeau was posthumously inducted into the [[Q Hall of Fame Canada]], Canada's Prestigious National LGBT Human Rights Hall of Fame, for his pioneering efforts in the advancement of human rights and equality for all Canadians.<ref>[http://qhalloffame.ca/inductees/pierre-elliot-trudeau/ Pierre Elliot Trudeau – Q Hall of Fame] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724071323/http://qhalloffame.ca/inductees/pierre-elliot-trudeau/ |date=July 24, 2012 }}</ref>

=== Honorary degrees ===
Trudeau received several [[honorary degrees]] in recognition of his political career.
;Honorary degrees
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! style="width:20%;"| Location
! style="width:20%;"| Date
! style="width:40%;"| School
! style="width:20%;"| Degree
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| [[Alberta]] || 1968 || [[University of Alberta]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{Cite web | title = Past Honorary Degree Recipients | work = [[University of Alberta]] | location = Edmonton | access-date = February 21, 2020 | url = https://www.ualberta.ca/chancellor-and-senate/honorary-degrees/past-honorary-degree-recipients.html?0=trudeau | date = 1968 | archive-date = October 15, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211015063036/https://www.ualberta.ca/chancellor-and-senate/honorary-degrees/past-honorary-degree-recipients.html?0=trudeau | url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Ontario]] || 1968 || [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref name="Queens_1968">{{Citation | title = Honorary degrees | publisher = Queen's University | location = Kingston, Ontario | date = 1968 | url = http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/sites/webpublish.queensu.ca.uregwww/files/files/HDrecipients.pdf | access-date = February 21, 2020 | archive-date = February 27, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200227133354/http://queensu.ca/registrar/sites/webpublish.queensu.ca.uregwww/files/files/HDrecipients.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Sudan]] || 1969 || [[University of Khartoum]] ||
|-
| [[North Carolina]] || 1974 || [[Duke University]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>[http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies/ Duke University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904071032/http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies/ |date=September 4, 2006 }}—Center for Canadian Studies</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=1970–1979|publisher=[[Duke University]]|access-date=February 21, 2020|url=https://trustees.duke.edu/honorary-degrees-past-recipients/1970-1979|date=1974|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806061507/https://trustees.duke.edu/honorary-degrees-past-recipients/1970-1979|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Ontario]] || 1974 || [[University of Ottawa]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.uottawa.ca/services/markcom/gazette/001006/001006-art02-e.html |title = Pierre Trudeau and U of O |first = Jacques |last = Pallascio |work = University of Ottawa Gazette |access-date = May 21, 2009 |date = October 6, 2000 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110611070328/http://www.uottawa.ca/services/markcom/gazette/001006/001006-art02-e.html |archive-date = June 11, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uottawa.ca/president/people/trudeau-pierre-elliott#Array|title=Trudeau, Pierre Elliott|access-date=January 25, 2018|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806053423/https://www.uottawa.ca/president/people/trudeau-pierre-elliott#Array|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Japan]] || 1976 || [[Keio University]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/learn-more/honorary-degrees/ |title=Conferment of Honorary Degree of Doctor |publisher=Keio University |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726102054/https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/learn-more/honorary-degrees/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Indiana]] || May 16, 1982 || [[University of Notre Dame]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://commencement.nd.edu/assets/230273/honorary_degrees_archive_by_date.pdf |title=Honorary Degree Recipients, 1844–2016 |page=19 |publisher=[[University of Notre Dame]] |access-date=February 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812183349/http://commencement.nd.edu/assets/230273/honorary_degrees_archive_by_date.pdf |archive-date=August 12, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[Nova Scotia]] || 1982 || [[St. Francis Xavier University]] ||
|-
| [[Quebec]] || November 5, 1985 || [[McGill University]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/senate/files/senate/honorary_degree_recipients_alpha_list_updated_nov._2016.pdf |title=List of McGill Honorary Degree Recipients from 1935 to Fall 2016 |publisher=[[McGill University]] |page=53 |archive-date=March 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317144411/https://www.mcgill.ca/senate/files/senate/honorary_degree_recipients_alpha_list_updated_nov._2016.pdf |access-date=October 3, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[British Columbia]] || May 30, 1986 || [[University of British Columbia]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites8.html#trudeau |title=The Title and Degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) Conferred at Congregation, May 30, 1986 |publisher=[[University of British Columbia]] |access-date=February 11, 2019 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806063821/http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites8.html#trudeau |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/node/8316 Nathan Nemetz and Pierre Trudeau (receiving honorary degree), Lt. Gov. Robert Rogers, University of British Columbia.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130825033504/http://www.jewishmuseum.ca/node/8316 |date=August 25, 2013 }}, Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia</ref>
|-
| [[Macau]]||1987 || [[University of Macau]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.umac.mo/reg/UMCalendar/appendices/(12)A-HDT.pdf |title = Honorary Degrees and Titles |work = [[University of Macau]] |access-date = May 21, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090327093423/http://www.umac.mo/reg/UMCalendar/appendices/(12)A-HDT.pdf |archive-date = March 27, 2009 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[Quebec]] || 1987 || [[Université de Montréal]] || <ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.125.umontreal.ca/Pionniers/Trudeau.html |title = Nos pionnières et nos pionniers |work = Université de Montréal |access-date = February 7, 2013 |archive-date = August 6, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200806043649/http://www.125.umontreal.ca/Pionniers/Trudeau.html |url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Ontario]] || March 31, 1991 || [[University of Toronto]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Assets/Governing+Council+Digital+Assets/Boards+and+Committees/Committee+for+Honorary+Degrees/degreerecipients1850tillnow.pdf |title=University of Toronto Honorary Degree Recipients |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=October 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001101642/http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Assets/Governing+Council+Digital+Assets/Boards+and+Committees/Committee+for+Honorary+Degrees/degreerecipients1850tillnow.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

{{Incomplete list|date=May 2018}}

=== Memorials ===
====Geographic locations====
*[[British Columbia]]: [[Mount Pierre Elliott Trudeau]], [[Premier Range]], [[Cariboo Mountains]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/b-c-mountain-named-after-trudeau-1.615670 |title=B.C. mountain named after Trudeau |work=CBC News |date=June 10, 2006 |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=March 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320230539/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/b-c-mountain-named-after-trudeau-1.615670 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mount-trudeau-to-be-officially-named-in-june-1.607271 |title=Mount Trudeau to be officially named in June |work=CBC News |date=April 13, 2006 |access-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-date=November 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103210856/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mount-trudeau-to-be-officially-named-in-june-1.607271 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Schools====
*[[Manitoba]]: [[Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau]], [[Winnipeg]].
*[[Ontario]]: [[École élémentaire Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau]], [[Toronto]].
*[[Ontario]]: [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau French Immersion Public School]], [[St. Thomas, Ontario|St. Thomas]].
*[[Ontario]]: [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School]], [[Markham, Ontario|Markham]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trudeau.hs.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/ |title=Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502131232/http://www.trudeau.hs.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/ |archive-date=May 2, 2006 |website=Trudeau.hs.yrdsb.edu.on.ca |access-date=July 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Ontario]]: [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School (Oshawa)|Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School]], [[Oshawa]].
*[[Ontario]]: [[Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Catholic Elementary School (Ottawa)|Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau Catholic Elementary School]], [[Ottawa]].
*[[Quebec]]: [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School (Blainville)|Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School]], [[Blainville, Quebec|Blainville]].
*[[Quebec]]: [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School (Gatineau)|Pierre Elliott Trudeau Public School]], [[Gatineau]].
*[[Saxony-Anhalt]], [[Germany]]: International Gymnasium Pierre Trudeau (private Highschool), [[Barleben]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ecole-schulen.de/gymnasium/ |title= Gymnasium – Ecole Stiftung }}</ref>

====Parks====
*[[Ontario]]: Pierre Elliot Trudeau Park, [[Vaughan, Ontario]] – park also has a statue of Trudeau.

====Organisation====
* [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation]]
* [[Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport]] (YUL) in [[Dorval]], Montreal (renamed January 1, 2004).<ref name="Cauchy 2003">{{cite news |last=Cauchy |first=Clairandrée |title=L'aéroport de Dorval devient l'aéroport PET |url=https://www.ledevoir.com/non-classe/34541/l-aeroport-de-dorval-devient-l-aeroport-pet |newspaper=[[Le Devoir]] |location=Montreal |date=August 23, 2003 |access-date=August 7, 2017 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806102102/https://www.ledevoir.com/non-classe/34541/l-aeroport-de-dorval-devient-l-aeroport-pet |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = What's in an eponym? Celebrity airports – could there be a commercial benefit in naming? |url = http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/whats-in-an-eponym-could-there-be-a-financial-or-other-benefit-in-celebrity-airport-naming-215965 |publisher = Centre for Aviation |access-date = April 12, 2015 |archive-date = August 20, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160820072028/http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/whats-in-an-eponym-could-there-be-a-financial-or-other-benefit-in-celebrity-airport-naming-215965 |url-status = live }}</ref>

=== Order of Canada citation ===
Trudeau was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of Canada]] on June 24, 1985. His citation reads:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=1688&t=12&ln=Trudeau |title=Order of Canada |publisher=Governor General of Canada |date=April 30, 2009 |access-date=July 7, 2011 |archive-date=September 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904032311/http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=1688&t=12&ln=Trudeau |url-status=live }}</ref>
<blockquote>Lawyer, professor, author and defender of human rights this statesman served as Prime Minister of Canada for fifteen years. Lending substance to the phrase "the style is the man", he has imparted, both in his and on the world stage, his quintessentially personal philosophy of modern politics.</blockquote>
{{Clear}}

== Major biographies ==
In 1990, Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall published a major biography, ''Trudeau and Our Times'', in two volumes. Volume 1, ''The Magnificent Obsession'', was the winner of the [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]].<ref name="Clarkson_McCall_1997_1">{{cite book |last1 = Clarkson |first1 = Stephen |author-link1 = Stephen Clarkson |last2 = McCall |first2 = Christina |author-link2 = Christina McCall |title = Trudeau and Our Times: The Magnificent Obsession |orig-year = 1990 |volume = 1 |edition = Revised |publisher = [[McClelland and Stewart]]|location = Toronto |year = 1997 |isbn = 978-0-7710-5415-0 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/trudeauourtimes0000unse }}</ref><ref name="Clarkson_McCall_1997_2">{{cite book | last1 = Clarkson |first1=Stephen |last2 = McCall |first2=Christina |title= Trudeau and Our Times: The heroic Delusion |volume = 2 |edition = Revised |publisher = McClelland and Stewart | location = Toronto | year= 1997|isbn = 978-0-7710-5408-2 |orig-year=1990}}</ref>

== In film ==
Through hours of archival footage and interviews with Trudeau himself, the 1990 documentary ''Memoirs'' traces Trudeau's life and career.<ref>{{Citation| publisher = Canadian National Institute for the Blind| last1 = Trudeau| first1 = Pierre Elliott| last2 = Miller| first2 = Peter| title = Memoirs| location = Toronto| date = 1990}}</ref>

Trudeau's life was also depicted in two [[CBC Television]] mini-series. The first, ''[[Trudeau (film)|Trudeau]]'' (2002, with [[Colm Feore]] in the title role), depicts his years as prime minister. ''Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making'' (2005, with [[Stéphane Demers]] as the young Pierre, and Tobie Pelletier as Trudeau in later years) portrays his earlier life.

The 1999 feature-length documentary by the [[National Film Board of Canada]] (NFB) entitled ''[[Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation]]'' explores the impact of Trudeau's vision of Canadian bilingualism through interviews with eight Canadians on how Trudeau's concept of nationalism and bilingualism affected them personally in the 1970s.<ref name="NFB_JustWatchMe_1999">{{cite AV media |title=Just watch me: Trudeau and the 70's generation |date=September 1999 |publisher=[[National Film Board of Canada]] |location=Brooklyn, NY |oclc=748578882 |people=Director [[Catherine Annau]], Producers [[Gerry Flahive]] and [[Yves Bisallon]], Featuring [[Evan Adams]], [[John Duffy (writer)|John Duffy]], Doug Garson, André Gobeil, Susanne Hilton, Sylvain Marois, Meg McDonald, Jocelyne Perrier}} [[Icarus Films]] (2011), 76 minutes.</ref>

In the documentary mini-series ''[[The Champions (documentary miniseries)|The Champions]]'' directed by [[Donald Brittain]], Trudeau was the co-subject along with René Lévesque.

In 2001, the CBC produced a full-length documentary entitled ''Reflections''.<ref name="CBC_Reflections_20010923" />

== Writings ==
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author-mask2=1|title=Memoirs |date=1993 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-7710-8588-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirs00trud |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Axworthy |editor1-first=Thomas S. |editor1-link=Tom Axworthy |editor2-last=Trudeau |editor2-first=Pierre Elliott |editor-mask2=1 |title=Towards a Just Society: The Trudeau Years |date=1992 |publisher=Penguin |location=Toronto; New York |isbn=978-0-670-83015-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/towardsjustsocie00axwo |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Head |first1=Ivan L. |author1-link=Ivan Head |last2=Trudeau |first2=Pierre Elliott |author-mask2=1 |title=The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada's Foreign Policy, 1968–1984 |date=1995 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-7710-4099-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianwayshapi0000head |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hébert |first1=Jacques |author1-link= Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician) |last2=Trudeau |first2=Pierre Elliott |author2-mask=1 |title=Two Innocents in Red China |date=1968 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/twoinnocentsinre0000hebe |url-access=registration |translator-last=Owen |translator-first=I.M. |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |editor1-last=Pelletier |editor1-first=Gérard |editor1-link=Gérard Pelletier |title=Against the Current: Selected Writings, 1939–1996 |date=1996 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-7710-6979-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/againstcurrentse0000trud |url-access=registration |ref=none}} (À contre-courant: textes choisis, 1939–1996)
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |editor1-last=Graham |editor1-first=Rod |title=The Essential Trudeau |date=1998 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-7710-8591-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/essentialtrudeau0000trud |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=The Asbestos Strike |others=Translated by James Boake |year=1974 |publisher=James Lewis & Samuel |location=Toronto |ref=none}} (''Grève de l'amiante'')
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=Pierre Trudeau Speaks Out on Meech Lake |editor1-last=Johnston |editor1-first=Donald J. |editor1-link=Don Johnston |location=Toronto |publisher=General Paperbacks |year=1990 |isbn=0-7736-7244-3 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Trudeau |first=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=Approaches to Politics |location=Toronto |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1970 |isbn=0-19-540176-X |ref=none}} Introd. by [[Ramsay Cook]]. Prefatory note by [[Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician)|Jacques Hébert]]. Translated by I. M. Owen. from the French ''Cheminements de la politique''.
* {{cite book |last1=MacInnis |first1=Joseph B. |author-link=Joseph B. MacInnis |title=Underwater Man |location=New York |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Company |year=1975 |isbn=0-396-07142-2 |others=Foreword by Pierre Trudeau |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=Federalism and the French Canadians |others=Introduction by [[John T. Saywell]] |year=1968 |publisher=MacMillan of Canada |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/federalismfrench0000trud_s5g6 |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=Conversation with Canadians |others=Foreword by [[Ivan L. Head]]. |location=Toronto, Buffalo |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1972 |isbn=0-8020-1888-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/conversationwith0000trud |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=The Best of Trudeau |location=Toronto |publisher=Modern Canadian Library |year=1972 |isbn=0-919364-08-X |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Pierre Elliott |author1-mask=1 |title=Lifting the Shadow of War |editor-first=C. David |editor-last=Crenna |location=Edmonton |publisher=Hurtig |year=1987 |isbn=0-88830-300-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Human Rights, Federalism and Minorities. (Les droits de l'homme, le fédéralisme et les minorités) |editor1-link=Allan Gotlieb |editor1-last=Gotlieb |editor1-first=Allan |location=Toronto |publisher=[[Canadian Institute of International Affairs]] |year=1970 |url=https://archive.org/details/humanrightsfeder0000gotl |url-access=registration |ref=none}}

== Electoral record ==
{{Main|Electoral history of Pierre Trudeau}}

== See also ==
{{Portal|Canada|Politics|Liberalism}}
* {{annotated link|History of the Quebec sovereignty movement}}
* [[Judo in Canada]]
* [[List of Canadian federal general elections]]
* [[List of prime ministers of Canada]]
* [[List of years in Canada]]
* [[Politics of Canada]]
* [[Prime Minister nicknaming in Quebec]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
=== Citations ===
{{Reflist}}

=== Sources ===
{{refbegin|30em}}
=== Books ===
*{{cite book
|last1=Bothwell
|first1=Robert
|last2=Granatstein
|first2=Jack
|title=Trudeau's World: Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968–84
|date=2017
|publisher=University of British Columbia Press
|location=Vancouver
 |isbn=978-0-7748-3640-1
}}
* {{cite book
 |author1      = Clarkson, Stephen
 |author1-link = Stephen Clarkson
 |author2      = McCall, Christina
 |author2-link = Christina McCall
 |title        = Trudeau and our times: The magnificent obsession
 |volume       = 1
 |edition      = Revised
 |publisher    = McClelland and Stewart
 |location     = Toronto
 |year         = 1997a
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Clarkson & McCall|1997a}}
 |isbn         = 978-0-7710-5415-0
 |url-access   = registration
 |url          = https://archive.org/details/trudeauourtimes0000unse
}}
* {{cite book
  | last      = Clarkson
  | first     = Stephen
  | author1-link= Stephen Clarkson
  | author2   = McCall, Christina
  |author2-link=Christina McCall
  | title     = Trudeau and our times: The heroic delusion
  | volume    = 2
  | edition   = Revised
  | publisher = McClelland and Stewart
  | location  = Toronto
  | year      = 1997b
  | ref       ={{sfnRef|Clarkson & McCall|1997b}}
  | isbn      = 978-0-7710-5408-2
  }}
* {{cite book
 |editor1-last  = Cohen
 |editor1-first = Andrew
 |editor1-link  = Andrew Cohen (journalist)
 |editor2-last  = Granatstein
 |editor2-first = J. L.
 |editor2-link  = Jack Granatstein
 |title         = Trudeau's shadow : the life and legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
 |publisher     = Random House Canada
 |location      = Toronto
 |year          = 1998
 |isbn          = 978-0-679-30954-3
 |url-access    = registration
 |url           = https://archive.org/details/trudeausshadowli0000unse
}}
* {{cite book
 |last        = English
 |first       = John
 |author-link = John English (Canadian politician)
 |title       = Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919–1968
 |location    = Toronto
 |publisher   = Knopf Canada
 |isbn        = 978-0-676-97521-5
 |year        = 2006
 |url-access  = registration
 |url         = https://archive.org/details/citizenofworldth00john
}}
* {{cite book
 |last        = English
 |first       = John
 |author-link = John English (Canadian politician)
 |title       = Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume Two: 1968–2000
 |location    = Toronto
 |publisher   = Knopf Canada
 |isbn        = 978-0-676-97523-9
 |year        = 2009
 |url-access  = registration
 |url         = https://archive.org/details/citizenofworldth00john
}}
*{{cite book
|last2=Bothwell
|first2=Robert
|last1=Granatstein
|first1=Jack
|title=Pirouette Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
|date=1991
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|location=Toronto
|isbn=978-0-8020-6873-6
}}

* {{cite book
 |last        = Gwyn
 |first       = Richard
 |author-link = Richard Gwyn (Canadian writer)
 |title       = The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians
 |publisher   = McClelland and Stewart
 |location    = Toronto
 |year        = 1980
 |isbn        = 978-0-7710-3732-0
 |url-access  = registration
 |url         = https://archive.org/details/northernmaguspie00gwyn
}}
* {{cite book
 |last          = Higgins
 |first         = M.
 |author1-link  = Michael W. Higgins
 |title         = The Hidden Pierre Elliott Trudeau: The Faith Behind the Politics
 |year          = 2004
 |publisher     = Novalis
 |location      = Ottawa
 |isbn          = 978-2-895-07550-9
 |editor1-last  = English
 |editor1-first = John
 |editor1-link  = John English (Canadian politician)
 |editor2-last  = Gwynne
 |editor2-first = Richard
 |editor2-link  = Richard Gwyn (Canadian writer)
 |editor3-last  = Lackenbauer
 |editor3-first = P. Whitney
 |ref           = {{sfnRef|Higgins, M.|2004}}
 |url-access    = registration
 |url           = https://archive.org/details/hiddenpierreelli0000unse
}}
*{{cite book
|last1=Hilliker
|first1=John
|last2=Halloran
|first2=Mary
|last3=Donaghy
|first3=Greg
|title=Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 3: Innovation and Adaptation, 1968–1984
|date=2017
|publisher=University of Toronto Press
|location=Toronto
|isbn=978-1-4875-1496-9
}}
* {{cite book
 |last1      = Laxer
 |first1     = James
 |last2      = Laxer
 |first2     = Robert
 |title      = The Liberal Idea of Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the Question of Canada's Survival
 |url        = https://archive.org/details/liberalideaofcan0000laxe
 |url-access = registration
 |publisher  = J. Lorimer
 |location   = Toronto
 |year       = 1977
 |isbn       = 978-0-88862-124-5
}}
* {{cite book
 |last1        = Lyon
 |first1       = David
 |author1-link = David Lyon (sociologist)
 |last2        = Van Die
 |first2       = Marguerite
 |title        = Rethinking Church, State, and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and America
 |publisher    = University of Toronto Press
 |location     = Toronto
 |year         = 2000
 |isbn         = 978-0-8020-4408-2
 |url          = https://archive.org/details/rethinkingchurch0000unse_s3l3
 |url-access   = registration
}}
* {{cite book
 |last         = McCall
 |first        = Cristina
 |author1-link = Christina McCall
 |title        = Grits: An Intimate Portrait of the Liberal Party
 |publisher    = MacMillan of Canada
 |location     = Toronto
 |year         = 1982
 |isbn         = 978-0-7715-9573-8
 |url-access   = registration
 |url          = https://archive.org/details/gritsintimatepor00mcca
}}
* {{cite book
 |editor-last  = Southam
 |editor-first = Nancy
 |title        = Pierre: Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew
 |publisher    = McCelland & Stewart
 |location     = Toronto
 |year         = 2005
 |isbn         = 978-0-7710-8168-2
 |url-access   = registration
 |url          = https://archive.org/details/pierrecolleagues0000unse
}}
*{{cite book
|last      =Phythian
|first     =Mark
|title     =The Politics of British Arms Sales Since 1964: 'To Secure Our Rightful Share'
|location  =Manchester
|publisher =Manchester University Press
|year      = 2000
|isbn      = 978-0-7190-5907-0
}}
* {{cite book
 |last=Radwanski
 |first=George
 |title=Trudeau
 |location=Toronto
 |publisher=Macmillan of Canada
 |date=1978
}}
* {{cite book
 |last       = Trudeau
 |first      = Pierre Elliot
 |title      = Memoirs
 |location   = Toronto
 |publisher  = McClelland & Stewart
 |isbn       = 978-0-7710-8588-8
 |year       = 1993
 |url        = https://archive.org/details/memoirs00trud
 |url-access = registration
}}
* {{cite book
 |last         = Trudeau
 |first        = Pierre Elliot
 |title        = Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939–1996
 |editor-last  = Pelletier
 |editor-first = Gérard
 |location     = Toronto
 |publisher    = McClelland and Stewart
 |isbn         = 978-0-7710-6979-6
 |year         = 1996
 |url          = https://archive.org/details/againstcurrentse0000trud
 |url-access   = registration
}}
* {{cite book
 |last         = Zink
 |first        = Lubor
 |author1-link = Lubor J. Zink
 |title        = Trudeaucracy
 |location     = Toronto
 |publisher    = Toronto Sun Publishing
 |url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=oaYdAAAAMAAJ&q=Trudeaumania+coined+Lubor
 |quote        = lubor Zink is the one who first coined those two terms of our times – Trudeaumania and Trudeaucracy. When Canada, led by its media, was dazzled by the Trudeau "charisma" and style, Zink saw behind the glitter and sought to define the man ...
 |page         = 152
 |year         = 1972
}}

=== News media ===
* {{cite news
 |title        = Forty years on, Trudeaumania still lives
 |url          = http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=11bac4bf-e162-4caf-8f6b-6b4de8823cc5&k=72914
 |archive-url  = https://archive.today/20130628213331/http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=11bac4bf-e162-4caf-8f6b-6b4de8823cc5&k=72914
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-date = June 28, 2013
 |newspaper    = Canada.com
 |date         = April 5, 2008
 |quote        = Trudeaumania, a term coined by a journalist named Lubor J. Zink during the 1968 federal election campaign to describe Canada's feverish zeal for the Liberal party leader
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Canada.com}}
}}
* {{cite news
 |author       = Canadian Press
 |title        = John, Yoko think PM is "beautiful"
 |url          = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j-RUAAAAIBAJ&dq=trudeau%20a%20beautiful%20person&pg=6282%2C5150764
 |newspaper    = The Leader-Post
 |page         = 1
 |location     = Regina, Saskatchewan
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Canadian Press (1969-12-24)}}
 |archive-date = July 28, 2020
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20200728090342/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j-RUAAAAIBAJ&dq=trudeau+a+beautiful+person&pg=6282%2C5150764
 |url-status   = live
}}
* {{cite news
 |title        = Omnibus Bill: 'There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation'
 |url          = http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/rights-freedoms/trudeaus-omnibus-bill-challenging-canadian-taboos/theres-no-place-for-the-state-in-the-bedrooms-of-the-nation.html
 |work         = CBC News
 |publisher    = CBC Digital Archives
 |date         = December 21, 1967
 |location     = Toronto
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120910020242/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/rights-freedoms/trudeaus-omnibus-bill-challenging-canadian-taboos/theres-no-place-for-the-state-in-the-bedrooms-of-the-nation.html
 |archive-date = September 10, 2012
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|CBC News (1967-12-21)}}
 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite news
 |title        = PM Trudeau won't let 'em rain on his parade
 |url          = http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/pierre-elliott-trudeau-philosopher-and-prime-minister/the-pm-wont-let-em-rain-on-his-parade.html
 |work         = CBC News
 |publisher    = CBC Digital Archives
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130322052400/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/pierre-elliott-trudeau-philosopher-and-prime-minister/the-pm-wont-let-em-rain-on-his-parade.html
 |archive-date = March 22, 2013
 |location     = Toronto
 |date         = June 24, 1968
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|CBC News (1968-06-24)}}
 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite news
 |title        = 2000: Justin Trudeau delivers eulogy for his father Pierre
 |url          = http://www.cbc.ca/archives/on-this-day/justin-trudeaus-eulogy.html
 |work         = The National
 |publisher    = CBC Digital Archives
 |date         = October 3, 2000
 |location     = Toronto
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121006073924/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/on-this-day/justin-trudeaus-eulogy.html
 |archive-date = October 6, 2012
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|CBC News (2000-10-03)}}
 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite news
  | author    = Editorial Staff
  | title     = The elements that made Pierre Trudeau great
  | newspaper = The Globe and Mail
  | page      = A20
  | location  = Toronto
  | date      = September 29, 2000
| ref       ={{sfnRef|The Globe and Mail (2000-09-29)}}
  }}
* {{cite news
 |first        = Peter
 |last         = Edwards
 |title        = Confessions of a mobster: 'My job was to kill Pierre Trudeau'
 |url          = https://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/290634
 |newspaper    = The Toronto Star
 |page         = A1
 |location     = Toronto
 |date         = January 3, 2008
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121019221751/http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/290634
 |archive-date = October 19, 2012
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Edwards (2008-01-03)}}
 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite news
  | last      = Fortin
  | first     = Pierre
  | title     = Grounds for success
  | newspaper = The Globe and Mail
  | page      = A17
  | date      = October 9, 2000
| ref       ={{sfnRef|Fortin (2000-10-09)}}
  }}
* {{cite news
  | last      = Janigan
  | first     = Mary
  | title     = Some MPs say they regret voting for War Measures
  | newspaper = The Toronto Star
  | location  = Toronto
  | page      = 3
  | date      = November 1, 1975
| ref       ={{sfnRef|Janigan (1975-11-01)}}
  }}
* {{cite news
 |last         = Mallick
 |first        = Heather
 |title        = Trudeau made intellect interesting
 |newspaper    = The Globe and Mail
 |page         = 04
 |date         = September 30, 2000
 |location     = Toronto
 |url          = http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/trudeau/hmallick_sep30.html
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130522085613/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/trudeau/hmallick_sep30.html
 |archive-date = May 22, 2013
 |ref          = {{sfnRef| Mallick (2000-09-30)}}
 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite news
  | last      = O'Malley
  | first     = Martin
  | title     = Unlocking the locked step of law and morality
  | newspaper = The Globe and Mail
  | page      = 6
  | location  = Toronto
  | date      = December 12, 1967
| ref       ={{sfnRef|O'Malley (1967-12-12)}}
  }}
* {{cite news
 |agency       = Reuters
 |title        = Castro mourns for Trudeau, who stood up for him
 |newspaper    = CNN
 |url          = http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/10/03/canada.castro.reut/index.html
 |location     = Atlanta
 |date         = October 3, 2000
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120928052602/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/10/03/canada.castro.reut/index.html
 |archive-date = September 28, 2012
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Reuters (2000-10-03)}}
 |url-status   = dead
 |access-date  = July 20, 2012
}}
* {{cite news
 |newspaper   = The Globe and Mail
 |title       = Closest friends surprised by Trudeau revelations
 |date        = April 8, 2006
 |url         = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/closest-friends-surprised-by-trudeau-revelations/article4300628/
 |first       = Hugh
 |last        = Winsor
 |page        = A6
 |access-date = January 6, 2024
 |ref         = {{sfnRef|Windsor (2006-04-08)}}
 |location    = Toronto
}}

===Legislative documents===
* {{wikicite| reference = {{Cite canlaw|short title  = Income Tax Act|abbr = R.S.C.|year = 1985|chapter =c. 1 (5th Supp.)|link = https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-3.3/}} | ref = {{harvid|Income Tax Act}}}}
* {{wikicite| reference = {{Cite canlaw|short title  = An Act to amend the statute law relating to income tax|abbr = S.C.|year = 1974–75|chapter = 26|link = https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/001060/f2/1970/cgc_p3-0_v001_n004_t000_000_19750313_p00000.pdf}} | ref = {{harvid|S.C. 1974-75, ch. 26}}}}
* {{wikicite| reference = {{Cite canlaw|short title  = An Act to amend the statute law relating to income tax|abbr = S.C.|year = 1976–77|chapter = 4|link = https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/001060/f2/1970/cgc_p3-0_v002_n002_t000_000_19770224_p00000.pdf}} | ref = {{harvid|S.C. 1976-77, ch. 4}}}}
* {{wikicite| reference = {{Cite canlaw|short title  = An Act to amend the statute law relating to income tax and to provide other authority for the raising of funds|abbr = S.C.|year = 1977|chapter = 1|link = https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/001060/f2/1970/cgc_p3-0_v003_n001_t000_000_19771220_p00000.pdf}} | ref = {{harvid|S.C. 1977, ch. 1}}}}
* {{wikicite| reference = {{Cite canlaw|short title  = An Act to amend the statute law relating to income tax and to make related amendments to the Canada Pension Plan and the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1971|abbr = S.C.|year = 1984|chapter = 1|link = https://archive.org/details/actsofparl198384v01cana/page/164/mode/1up}} | ref = {{harvid|S.C. 1984, ch. 1}}}}
* {{wikicite| reference = {{Cite canlaw|short title  = An Act to amend the Income Tax Act and related statutes, and to amend the Canada Pension Plan, the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1971, the Financial Administration Act and the Petroleum and Gas Revenue Tax Act1|abbr = S.C.|year = 1986|chapter = 6|link = https://archive.org/details/actsofparl1986v01cana/page/358/mode/2up}} | ref = {{harvid|S.C. 1986, ch. 6}}}}

=== Other online sources ===
* {{cite encyclopedia
 |last         = Guest
 |first        = Dennis
 |title        = Social Security
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 |encyclopedia = The Canadian Encyclopedia
 |publisher    = Historica Canada
 |edition      = online
 |date         = December 16, 2013
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Guest (2012)}}
 |access-date  = May 15, 2022
 |archive-date = May 2, 2020
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 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite web
 |title        = Anecdote: A prime minister in disguise
 |work         = Canada's Prime Ministers, 1867–1994: Biographies and Anecdotes
 |publisher    = Library and Archives Canada
 |year         = 1994
 |url          = http://www.collectionscanada.ca/primeministers/h4-3382-e.html
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 |archive-date = June 14, 2012
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}}
* {{cite magazine |first1=Mary |last1=Janigan |first2=Joe |last2=Chidley |first3=Anthony |last3=Wilson-Smith |first4=Robert |last4=Lewis |first5=Geoffrey |last5=Stevens |first6=Peter C. |last6=Newman |first7=Jane |last7=O'Hara |title=Trudeau, 30 Years Later |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/trudeau-30-years-later |magazine=Maclean's |via=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |edition=online |date=August 1, 2014 |ref={{sfnRef|Maclean's Magazine (1998-04-06)}} }}
* {{cite encyclopedia
 |last         = Moscovitch
 |first        = Allan
 |title        = Welfare State
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 |encyclopedia = The Canadian Encyclopedia
 |publisher    = Historica Canada
 |edition      = online
 |date         = August 13, 2015
}}
* {{cite web
 |last         = Munroe
 |first        = Susan
 |title        = October Crisis Timeline: Key Events in the October Crisis in Canada
 |url          = http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/octobercrisis/a/octobercrisistl.htm
 |via          = Canadaonline / About.com
 |work         = The New York Times
 |access-date  = August 12, 2012
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 |archive-date = August 19, 2012
 |location     = New York
 |year         = 2012
 |url-status   = dead
}}
* {{cite web
 |title        = Généalogie Martial Trudeau
 |work         = Généalogie du Québec et de l'Acadie
 |url          = http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Martial_Trudeau&pid=6563&lng=fr&partID=6564
 |access-date  = August 13, 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130904173530/http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Martial_Trudeau&pid=6563&lng=fr&partID=6564
 |archive-date = September 4, 2013
 |year         = 2012
 |language     = fr
 |ref          = {{sfnRef|Généalogie du Québec (2012)}}
 |url-status   = dead
}}
{{refend}}

== Further reading ==
{{refbegin}}
* Adams, Annmarie and Cameron Macdonnell, "Making Himself At Home: Cormier, Trudeau and the Architecture of Domestic Masculinity," Winterthur Portfolio 50 No 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 2016): 151–89.
* Aivalis, Christo. ''The Constant Liberal: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left.'' Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018. {{ISBN|0-77483-714-4}}
* Aivalis, Christo. "In the Name of Liberalism: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left, 1949–1959." ''Canadian Historical Review'' (2013) 94#2 pp: 263–288.
* {{cite book |last = Bliss |first = Michael |title = Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney |publisher = HarperCollins |location = Toronto |year = 1995 |edition = 1 |ref ={{sfnRef|Bliss (1994) }} |isbn = 978-0-00-638062-7 |url = https://archive.org/details/righthonourablem00blis |url-access = registration }}
* {{cite book |last = Bowering |first = George |title = Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada |url = https://archive.org/details/egotistsautocrat0000bowe |url-access = registration |publisher = Viking |location = Toronto |year = 1999 |ref ={{sfnRef|Bowering (1999) }} |isbn = 978-0-670-88081-2 }} Chapter on Trudeau.
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Butler |editor1-first=Rick |editor2-last=Carrier |editor2-first=Jean-Guy |year=1979 |title=The Trudeau Decade |location=Toronto |publisher=Doubleday Canada |isbn=0-385-14806-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/trudeaudecade00butl_0 |url-access=registration }}. Essays by experts.
* {{cite book |last=Couture |first=Claude |author-link=Claude Couture |year=1998 |title=Paddling with the Current: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Étienne Parent, Liberalism and Nationalism in Canada |location=Edmonton |publisher=University of Alberta Press |isbn=1-4175-9306-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/paddlingwithcurr0000cout |url-access=registration }}
* Donaghy, Greg. "Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Pacific tilt, 1945–1984." ''International Journal'' 74.1 (2019): 135-150. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230606134619/https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:X02zmnFgS0YJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,27&as_ylo=2019&scillfp=13266916524434746844&oi=lle online]
* Donaldson, Gordon (1997). ''The Prime Ministers of Canada''. Chapter on Trudeau
* {{Cite journal |last1=Granatstein |first1=J.L. |last2=Bothwell |first2=Robert |date=2010 |title=Pierre Trudeau on his foreign policy: A conversation in 1988 |journal=International Journal |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=171–181|jstor=27976077 |doi=10.1177/002070201106600111 |s2cid=144465803 }}
* Gwyn, Richard J., and Sandra Gwyn. ''The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians'' (1980) [https://archive.org/details/northernmaguspie00gwyn online]
* {{cite book |last1=Hillmer |first1=Norman |author1-link=Norman Hillmer |last2=Granatstein |first2=J.L. |author2-link=Jack Granatstein |title=Prime Ministers: Rating Canada's Leaders |year=1999 |isbn=0-00-200027-X |location=Toronto |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |chapter=Pierre Elliott Trudeau |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/primeministersra0000gran/page/151 |chapter-url-access=registration }}
* Laforest, Guy (1995). ''Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream''. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. {{ISBN|0-77351-300-0}}
* {{cite book |last = Lotz |first = Jim |title = Prime Ministers of Canada |url = https://archive.org/details/primeministersof0000lotz |url-access = registration |publisher = Bison Books |location = London |year = 1987 |ref ={{sfnRef|Lotz (1987) }} |isbn = 978-0-86124-377-8 }} Chapter on Trudeau
* Lecours, André, Daniel Béland, and Greg Marchildon. "Fiscal Federalism: Pierre Trudeau as an Agent of Decentralization." ''Supreme Court Law Review'' 99 (2020): 77-99. [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gregory-Marchildon/publication/346693151_Fiscal_Federalism_Pierre_Trudeau_as_an_Agent_of_Decentralization/links/5fcf8062299bf188d4006849/Fiscal-Federalism-Pierre-Trudeau-as-an-Agent-of-Decentralization.pdf online]
* Moscovitch, Allan; Jim Albert eds. (1987). ''The Benevolent State: The Growth of Welfare in Canada.''
* Munroe, H. D. "Style within the centre: Pierre Trudeau, the ''War Measures Act'', and the nature of prime ministerial power." ''Canadian Public Administration'' (2011) 54.4 pp: 531–549.
* Nemni, Max and Nemi, Monique (2006). ''Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919–1944''. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
* Nemni, Max and Nemi, Monique (2011).''Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944–1965''. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
* {{cite book |author = Bob Plamondon |title = The Truth About Trudeau |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U3oY17o5sSwC&pg=PP1 |year = 2013 |publisher = Ottawa: Great River Media |isbn = 978-1-4566-1671-7 }}
* {{cite book |author = Bruce Powe |title = Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose |year = 2007 |publisher = Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers |isbn = 978-0-88762-281-6 }}
* Ricci, Nino (2009). ''Extraordinary Canadians: Pierre Elliott Trudeau''. Toronto: Penguin Canada. {{ISBN|978-0-670-06660-5}}
* Sawatsky, John (1987). ''The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists''. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 0-77107-949-4.
* Simpson, Jeffrey (1984). ''Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration''. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. {{ISBN|0-920510-24-8}}.
* Stewart, Walter (1971). ''Shrug: Trudeau in Power''. Toronto: New Press. {{ISBN|0-88770-081-0}}. A critique from the left.
* Zolf, Larry. ''Just Watch Me: Remembering Pierre Trudeau'' (James Lorimer & Company, 2019) [https://books.google.com/books?id=URK4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Pierre+Trudeau&pg=PR5 online].

=== Editorial cartoons and humour ===
* {{cite book |last = Ferguson |first = Will |title = Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders, Past and Present |publisher = Douglas & McIntyre |location = Vancouver |year = 1999 |ref ={{sfnRef|Ferguson (1999) }} |isbn = 978-1-55054-737-5 |url = https://archive.org/details/bastardsbonehead00ferg }} Humorous stories.
* McIlroy, Thad, ed. (1984). '' A Rose is a Rose: A Tribute to Pierre Elliott Trudeau in Cartoons and Quotes''. Toronto: Doubleday. {{ISBN|0385197888}}.
* Peterson, Roy (1984). ''Drawn & Quartered: The Trudeau Years''. Toronto: Key Porter Books. {{ISBN|0-91949-342-4}}.

=== Archives ===
* {{cite archive |collection=Pierre Elliott Trudeau fonds |date=1900–2000 |institution=[[Library and Archives Canada]] |location=Ottawa, Ontario |collection-url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=106624&lang=eng}}

=== Archival videos of Trudeau ===
* {{cite video |people = Pierre Elliott Trudeau |date = 1967–1970 |title = Trudeau's Omnibus Bill: Challenging Canadian Taboos |url = http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-538/politics_economy/omnibus/ |format = .wmv |access-date = December 5, 2006 |medium = news clips |publisher = CBC Archives }}
* {{cite video |people = Pierre Elliott Trudeau |date = 1957–2005 |title = Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Philosopher and Prime Minister |url = http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-2192/politics_economy/trudeau/ |format = .wmv |access-date = December 5, 2006 |medium = news clips |publisher = CBC Archives }}
{{refend}}

== External links ==
{{Spoken Wikipedia|En-Pierre Trudeau.ogg|date=July 20, 2010}}
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