Word: trudeau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, anyway -cheered the 110th anniversary of their national confederation. The $3.5 million birthday bash was a big change from last year, when merrymaking funds were slashed abruptly by an austerity-minded government. This time the question of national unity overrode any urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest province. Said Trudeau in his Dominion Day address: "The sort of bickering which has too often...
...Trouble. Demonstrating that hearts and minds policy, some days earlier Trudeau put in an appearance in Quebec at the annual holiday honoring St. Jean Baptiste, the province's patron saint. There, Quebec Premier René Lévesque also happens to be making big trouble for Trudeau on the most explosive issue in officially bilingual Canada: language rights. A fundamental goal of Lévesque's party is that Quebec "will be the country of a people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers...
...proposed language law has outraged the 1.2 million non-French Quebeckers, most of whom are English-speaking. Trudeau's government sympathizes with Lévesque's aim of preserving French, but fears that the bill is only a first step toward the Premier's avowed goal of separating Quebec from the other nine Canadian provinces...
...Margaret Trudeau was ready; ABC-TV was willing. So the aspiring photojournalist, newly separated from Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is scheduled to appear this Wednesday on the network's Good Morning, America show to display her camerawork. Margaret is casting about for employment in Manhattan; her Good Morning appearance will be a one-time affair-at least for the time being. To hire her regularly, ABC would have to prove that Margaret's talents are unique and that she is not taking a job from an American...
Separated. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 57, Prime Minister of Canada; and Margaret Sinclair Trudeau, 28, his independent wife who has recently started a career in photography; after six years of marriage, three sons (see THE WORLD...