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. This would eventually put him in the ideal position to deal with the French-English controversies that he would have to face in the future as Prime minister. Despite his alienation of the western provinces, Pierre Elliot Trudeau should be remembered for his strong stand against Quebec separation to keep Canada united in the midst of political controversy and upheaval caused by Quebec separatists.
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."(Whittaker) This background would give Trudeau a good grounding on both English and French culture and it put him in a good position to deal with the controversies he would later face as Prime Minister. He received an excellent education, having attended "a Jesuit college, London School of Economics, Harvard, and Mcgill."(Alward) Before Trudeau became P.M. in1968, he had a lot of political experience: he had been an adviser to an Ottawa council, he joined the Liberal party with Marchand and Pelletier, he was appointed to be an Ottawa secretary, and later he was named Minister of Justice. Finally, when P.M. Lester Pearson retired, Trudeau was elected P.M., to the Canadian population's delight.
About two years after Trudeau succeeded Pearson as P.M. , he would face, as Alward described it, "the biggest challenge of his career."(Alward) This challenge was to find a way to deal with the French Canadian separatists who had formed a terrorists group known as the Front de Liberation du Quebec, or FLQ. The FLQ were a group of young French Canadian nationalists who wanted Quebec to separate from Canada because they felt they felt that they were second - class citizens who had no control over society.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on October 18, 1919 to an upper class Quebecois family. Over the next 80-plus years of his life, the world would see him as a great man in Canadian history and that would be forever remembered throughout the world. ... French-speaking Canadians outside of Quebec should have the same rights as English-speaking Canadians in Quebec. 2. Each government should take the necessary actions in this field as speedily as possible, in ways most appropriate to its jurisdiction and without diminishing existing rights recognized by law or usage. 3. ... Pierre Laporte...
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