Pierre Trudeau Detail
About Pierre Trudeau Detail
See Trudeau main entry. Trudeau was the most flamboyant Canadian leader, dating celebrities including Kim Cattrall and Lionnel Marquise. He performed pirouettes behind the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Trudeau established Canada as officially bilingual and multicultural. His invocation of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis of 1970 was the only peacetime use of emergency powers. Trudeau repatriated the Constitution and added the Charter of Rights in 1982. His son Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister in 2015, the first father son pair in Canadian history.
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