Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canadas most charismatic Prime Minister
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Trudeau Dated Celebrities like
Barbara Streisand, actress Also datedClint
Eastwood, actor Joe Namath, NFL NY Jets QB Andre
Agassi, famous tennis player Richard Gere,
actor Warren Beatty, actor Liam Neeson,
actor James Brolin, actor
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Trudeau Dated Celebrities like
Bianca Jagger, later ex-wife of Mick Jagger
(Rolling Stones) Also datedWarren Beatty,
actor Mick Jagger, rock musician David Bowie,
rock musician Bjorn Borg, famous tennis player
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Trudeau Dated Celebrities like
Margot Kidder(Lois Lane in superman movies) Also
datedSteven Spielberg
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Trudeau Dated Celebrities like
Liona Boyd, musician
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Margaret Trudeau Her age 22 His age 52
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• PIERRE ELLIOT TRUDEAU
• Canadian Nationalist believed in a strong
  central government
• Opposed to Maurice Duplessis Quiet Revolution.
• Intellectual spent the first part of his life
  as a unionist and a Marxist

• RENE LEVESQUE
• Quebec nationalist premier elected in 1976
• Wanted to have a referendum on Quebec
  sovereignty-association

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Levesque asks Quebec residents
The Government of Quebec has made public its
proposal to negotiate a new agreement with the
rest of Canada, based on the equality of nations
this agreement would enable Quebec to acquire
the exclusive power to make its laws, levy its
taxes and establish relations abroad in other
words, sovereignty and at the same time to
maintain with Canada an economic association
including a common currency any change in
political status resulting from these
negotiations will only be implemented with
popular approval through another referendum
on these terms, do you give the Government of
Quebec the mandate to negotiate the proposed
agreement between Quebec and Canada?
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• 1980 REFERENDUM40 OUI LET QUEBEC SEPERATE
• 60 NON KEEP QUEBEC PART OF CANADA
• Over 85 per cent of eligible voters participated
  in the referendum.
• Although relieved by the result, Prime Minister
  Trudeau recognized the 40 per cent of voters
  seeking an independent Quebec when he said, "We
  have all lost a little in this referendum."

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• PATRIATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
• Following the NON vote in Quebec, Trudeau felt
  Canada needed a constitution of its own to make
  the country a full-fledged nation
• He went about he process of adding a Charter of
  Rights and Freedoms to the Constitution.
• Many of the provinces did not like his plan,
  especially some of the changes he proposed that
  made the federal government stronger. They
  rejected his plan.
• In 1981, the government decided to host a FIRST
  MINISTERS CONFERENCE, where all the premiers get
  together with the prime minister.
• During the Night of the Long Knives, Trudeau
  reached an agreement with the rest of the
  provinces, but left Quebec out.
• He decided to go ahead and create a new
  constitution without Quebecs support.

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PATRIATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 1982
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Quebeckers felt betrayed. They vowed that the
fight was not over. Quebec refused to sign the
new constitution, and promised another referendum
in the future. In 1984, Pierre Elliott Trudeau
resigned as Prime Minister.
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BRIAN MULRONEY Elected as Prime Minister in 1984.

• He wanted to bring Quebec into the Constitution.
• He called a FIRST MINISTERS MEETING to get
  Quebec to sign on.
• The conference took place at MEECH LAKE in 1987.

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THE PROBLEMS

• Each premier wants their own issue added to
  agendaEXAMPLES
• Fisheries
• Senate reform
• Quebec wants a veto over future changes to the
  constitution.
• Distinct Society Clause

PREMIERS BARGAIN ALL NIGHT Brian Mulroney gets a
deal.
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The deal must be ratified in the provincial
legislatures. Elijah Harper, an MLA in Manitoba,
is outraged that First Nations peoples and
Aboriginal peoples were not consulted during the
Meech Lake debate. He stages a filibuster that
prevents Manitoba from approving the Meech Lake
deal. Meech Lake needed to be approved by all of
the provinces by the end of the legislative year.
It cant be.MEECH LAKE DIES.
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CHARLOTTETOWNACCORD (1992) MULRONEY TRIES
AGAIN
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- Things for Provinces Forestry, Mining,
Cultural policy, natural resources Guaranteed
Funding for Provincial Programs Quebec gets 3 of
9 Supreme Court justices, guaranteed - Other
things Aboriginal self-government Quebec as a
"distinct society" Senate reformed 6 seats for
each province, 1 for each territory,
some seats for Aboriginal voters Reduced senate
powers Double Majority of French Canadian
seats Fairer allocation of HoC seats
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• FOR IT
• WOMEN
• CONSERVATIVES, LIBERALS, NDP
• FIRST NATIONS
• BUSINESS GROUPS
• ENGLISH CANADA
• 50 OF QUEBEC

AGAINST IT FORMER PRIME MINISTER PIERRE
TRUDEAU PRESTON MANNING'S NEW REFORM PARTY
opposed distinct society QUEBEC SOVEREIGNTISTS
SAID QUEBEC NEEDS MORE POWERS

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MULRONEYS OTHER GOALCloser ties with the
United States
PRESIDENTRONALDREAGAN
Using ground and space-based systems to prevent
US from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles.
BRIAN
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MULRONEYS OTHER GOALCloser ties with the
United States

• negotiated in 1988 with Bush Sr.
• very controversial in 88 election. More
  Canadians voted for anti-NAFTA parties but
  Conservatives won more seats
• Incoming President Bill Clinton introduced
  additional clauses on environment.

PRESIDENTGEORGE BUSH (Sr.)
BRIAN
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Had held four cabinet portfolios prior to
becoming PM, giving her more experience than 11
of 18 men who were PM before her, including
Mulroney, Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau. Canadas
first woman PM. First Baby Boomer prime
minister. Took over from Brian Mulroney as PM in
June 1993. Lasted 5 months as PM.
KIM CAMPBELL1993
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1993 ELECTION RESULTS
REGIONALISM BEGINSTO SPLIT THE COUNTRY APART
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• ERASING THE DEFICIT
• Under Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, the Liberals
  in the 1990s imposed the greatest spending cuts
  in Canadian history.
• Started with 42 billion deficit.
• Slashed corporate and personal taxes
• Paid down billions of the national debt.

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