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...watch me," Trudeau snapped back at newsmen who cornered him on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. "There are a lot of bleeding hearts who don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed. But it is more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people...
...that point, Trudeau's mind was just about made up. After canceling a ten-day trip to Russia scheduled for this week, he conferred with opposition leaders, former Prime Ministers, friends and aides in his spacious corner office in the Centre Block of Ottawa's solid gray federal complex. As a lifelong defender of civil liberties, one who helped to legalize homosexuality and broaden the abortion law, Trudeau could not help being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always...
Last week the Chinese scored a major success in that strategy. After 20 months of negotiation in Stockholm initiated by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Peking and Ottawa announced that they would establish diplomatic relations immediately. Trudeau had also agreed to break off relations with Nationalist China, but Taipei beat him to the punch. Just before the new Peking-Ottawa link was announced, Taiwan's Ambassador Hsueh Yu-chi severed his country's diplomatic ties with Canada and took leave of the country in a tearful farewell scene...
Quebec officials rejected the Front's demands. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said: "It's difficult with a man's life in the balance. But you cannot permit a minority to impose its will by violence on the majority...
Canada and the People's Republic of China have agreed to establish diplomatic relations at once and to exchange ambassadors within six months. Ottawa broke relations with Nationalist China, which in turn severed its diplomatic connections...