1. What Should Pierre Trudeau be Remembered For?
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a very controversial character in Canadian history. Raised by his French Canadian father and his Scottish mother, he would grow up to become fluent in both French and English cultures. ... Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born in 1919 in Montreal to a wealthy family, the son of a French Canadian businessman and a mother of Scottish ancestry."... (Gwynn, p. 108) This was the first time in Canadian history that the War Measures Act had been invoked in peacetime. ... Unfortunately, neither the anglophones nor the francophones were content: seeing everything in French an...
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