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Impatient & Restless. In February, when the Liberals' Lester Pearson, 70, announced his plans to retire after five years in office, no fewer than 20 candidates went after his job, including eight Cabinet ministers. Trudeau was only one of several strong contenders (TIME, Feb. 16), but he quickly drew ahead of the field. After waging a tireless cross-country campaign, he came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over...
Trudeau's program will not depart dramatically from Pearson's policies. His toughest problem is Canada's constitutional crisis. Though Trudeau is a French Canadian and personally popular in Quebec, he is ideologically at odds with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson and other Quebecois who want a quasi-independent status for the French-speaking province. Trudeau strongly opposes French separatism and argues persuasively for a genuinely federal system. As he sees it, Quebec should surrender its demands for special status, and English Canada should give up its vision of Canada as an essentially English-dominated country. Trudeau also...
...difference between Trudeau and Pearson is style. While Pearson is a largely unadventurous politician, Trudeau is an intellectual man on the go, impatient with old ideas and restless for results. Zoologist Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape, says that Trudeau has "animal qualities" that "bring him to the top of the heap." The son of a millionaire land and oil investor, he studied law at the University of Montreal and political economics at Harvard, went on to the London School of Economics and Paris' Ecole des Sciences Politiques. In 1948-49, he strapped on a knapsack and took...
Devotion to Work. As Pearson's choice in the Justice Ministry, Trudeau distinguished himself as a brilliant administrator who-despite his playboy reputation-maintained an ascetic devotion to work. He drafted massive criminal code reforms, liberalizing divorce and abortion laws and legalizing homosexual acts between consenting adults. He also drew up most of the agenda for last February's constitutional conference in Ottawa, aimed at resolving French-English differences...
...that Pearson-Anderson left it at that. Who, after all, had started the rumors? They said it was supporters of Richard Nixon, who has "compiled dossiers" on all possible Republican competitors for the presidency. "The rumor mill is going to play a part in the coming campaign," they declared solemnly, "and we write this to warn that the American public should be prepared for it." Disputing the Pearson-Anderson thesis, the New York Times said that the source of the rumors was not the Nixon camp but "aides of Governor George Romney...