Pierre Elliott TrudeauCanada’s most charismatic Prime Minister

Trudeau Dated Celebrities like:

Barbara Streisand, actress

Also dated:Clint 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

Trudeau Dated Celebrities like:

Bianca Jagger, later ex-wife of Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones)

Also dated:Warren Beatty, actor

Mick Jagger, rock musician

David Bowie, rock musician

Bjorn Borg, famous tennis player

Trudeau Dated Celebrities like:

Margot Kidder(Lois Lane in superman movies)

Also dated:Steven Spielberg

Trudeau Dated Celebrities like:

Liona Boyd, musician

Margaret Trudeau

Her age: 22

His age: 52

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”

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?

1980 REFERENDUM:40% 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."

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 Quebec’s support.

PATRIATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 1982

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.

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.

THE PROBLEMSEach premier wants their own issue added to agenda:EXAMPLES:

• 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.

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 can’t be.

MEECH LAKE DIES.

CHARLOTTETOWNACCORD (1992):

MULRONEY

TRIES

AGAIN

- 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

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

MULRONEY’S OTHER GOAL:Closer ties with the United States

BRIAN

PRESIDENTRONALDREAGAN

Using ground and space-based systems to prevent US from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles.

MULRONEY’S OTHER GOAL:Closer ties with the United States

BRIAN

PRESIDENTGEORGE BUSH (Sr.)

- 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.

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.

Canada’s first woman PM.

First Baby Boomer prime minister.

Took over from Brian Mulroney as PM in June 1993.

Lasted 5 months as PM.

KIM CAMPBELL:1993

1993 ELECTION RESULTS

REGIONALISM BEGINSTO SPLIT THE COUNTRY APART

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.