Word: 32nd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astonishing political resurrection. As leader of the Liberal Party, Trudeau not only won back his old job but did so in a fashion that left him undisputed master of both the party and of Canada's 32nd Parliament. This time the political obituaries were being written about the Tory government of Joe Clark, who at 39 had been the country's youngest Prime Minister ever and head of one of its shortest-lived governments (6½ months). When the votes were tallied, Clark's Progressive Conservatives had dropped from 136 seats in the House of Commons...