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...incumbent Liberal Party which elected him. What is certain is that he has youthfulness and charisma, and it appears that these were the qualities that the Liberals were looking for when they met in Ottawa three weeks ago to choose a successor to 70-year old Lester B. Pearson, who had announced his retirement last winter...
...addition to his personal appeal, Trudeau has had other factors working for him in his leadership campaign--his French Canadian birth, and an endorsement by Pearson's conservative Finance Minister, Mitchell Sharp. Many Liberals felt that a French Canadian Prime Minister would be best able to deal with French Canada's increasing demands for political and economic sovereignty. The problem with Trudeau was that he had a reputation as a leftist, and here Sharp's support served to convince many right-of-center Liberals that Trudeau was politically "sound" after...
...fact, Trudeau's administration will probably be somewhat more "sound" than many of his supporters were hoping when they elected him. The new P.M.'s foreign policy (with Mitchell Sharp as External Affairs Minister) will probably not differ radically from Pearson's, although Trudeau has announced that he will seek to decrease Canada's military commitments to NATO and the United Nations. No break with the United States over Vietnam is forseeable, although there is considerable opposition to U.S. policies both in Canada generally and within the Liberal government. Trudeau has already made it clear that he will not attempt...
...history," said the Toronto Star, "probably no man has entered the prime ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...
...particularly of Canada's role in NATO. Terming it "essential" that Canada and France improve their relations, Trudeau offered to meet personally with Charles de Gaulle. Within hours after his election he also moved to heal some of the divisions caused within his party by the scramble for Pearson's job (one Cabinet minister resigned in a huff...