@VE2UWY @canadaehx Who could fail to be delighted by foreign policy garbled in such an outfit?

#CanPol #PierreTrudeau #cdnpoli

@canadaehx Reminds me of what #JudyLaMarsh said at the convention: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_LaMarsh

#CanPol #Liberals #PierreTrudeau

On Feb. 29, 1984, a day after he took his "walk in the snow", Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will not lead the Liberals in the next election.
Upon his retirement on June 29, 1984, he is the 3rd longest serving PM in Canadian history.

#Cdnpol #Cdnpoli #Canpoli #Canpol #History #PrimeMInister #PierreTrudeau #Trudeau #Canadian #Canada #histodon #Histodons

https://canadaehx.com/2021/03/26/pierre-elliott-trudeau/

"Ministers are chosen for promotional reasons, rather than what they bring to the table, Morneau said, but it hardly matters because power resides in the hands of a cabal of advisers around the prime minister who “compel agreement from cabinet ministers.”"

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bill-morneau-memoir-justin-trudeau

This has been a key criticism of how the federal government operates since the time of ##PierreTrudeau at least. How true is it at the provincial level, I wonder?

#canpol #BillMorneau
#NationalPost

@canadaehx Metrification was the best thing the #Trudeau ministry did.

#metric #SI #PierreTrudeau
#canpol

@gemlog #PierreTrudeau , according to Margaret, liked to stay in cheap hostel-type arrangements when he travelled on personal business, the type of place he'd stayed as a young man. She was unimpressed by that aspect of his character.

A round-up of stories from the #NationalPost regarding the death of Her late Majesty:

https://nationalpost.com/news/how-the-national-post-paper-covered-the-death-of-canadas-longest-reigning-monarch

#MargaretTrudeau remembers her first day of marriage to #PierreTrudeau :
“We were woken next morning at 6:30 a.m. by the telephone. The queen was calling to congratulate Pierre; she had got the time difference wrong.”

#ElizabethII

Turning a blind eye to #PierreTrudeau's unseemly #indigenous assimilation plan:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-turning-a-blind-eye-to-pierre-trudeaus-unseemly-indigenous-assimilation-plan

Canadians have so little understanding and sympathy for their ancestors these days; it would be interesting for PM #JustinTrudeau to discuss the policies of PM #PierreTrudeau with which he disagrees.

#canpol

That was #HaroldCardinal , writing about PM #PierreTrudeau 's 1969 White Paper, quoted in the #NationalPost .

#canpol #FirstNations

@Canageek PM #PierreTrudeau had a swimming pool added, paid for by people who wanted to do him a favour.

I have no real opinion about renovation vs. replacement, but it is outrageous that PMs believe they'd lose enough votes that they dare not fix it up.

#canpol

« M. Trudeau était comme annoncé : élégant, contrariant, fragile, incapable de résister à l'intellectualisation, préoccupé par des pensées galbraithiennes que peu de gens au Canada partagent avec lui. Il était également très amical. »

#galbraithiennes . Bah.

Pierre Trudeau aurait demandé à Desmarais en 1976 de rendre la vie impossible au PQ
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1772659/election-parti-quebecois-1976-ottawa-washington-plc-power-corporation

À noter que #PowerCorp nie qu'ils ont déplacé des emplois du Québec à ce temps-là.

#PierreTrudeau
#canpol #qcpol
#RadioCanada

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-shows-why-canada-must-reduce-its-dependence-on-the-u-s-136357

#Canada #TradeRelations #DonaldTrump #RichardNixon #PierreTrudeau #Coronavirus #COVID19 #COVID19Canada