Word: trudeau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four years Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau ruled Canada's 28th Parliament with the confident, almost imperious air of a ringmaster. But as he faced a new Parliament last week, with his Liberal Party stripped of its fat majority by the October election, Trudeau was tiptoeing on a tightrope. Waiting in the wings, eager to bump him off his perch and form a new government, stood the Progressive Conservative Party, which has only two fewer seats than Trudeau's Liberals. Trudeau is still aloft, and could remain there for months-or he could topple in a matter...
...Trudeau's fate, in short, is at the mercy of Canada's socialist-minded New Democratic Party. The October election reduced the Liberal representation in the 264-member House of Commons from 146 to 109. The Progressive Conservative Party won 107 seats, the Quebec-based populist Social Credit Party took 15, and independents have two. The remaining 31 seats-and the balance of power-belong to the N.D.P., led by shrewd former Labor Lawyer David Lewis. As long as the N.D.P. supports Trudeau on key votes, his government will survive and another election will be delayed...
...time being, at least, the N.D.P. seems prepared to back Trudeau. Never rich in funds, the N.D.P. is not eager to finance another election campaign at present. Indeed, according to an N.D.P. survey, the voters themselves oppose another campaign just now. Moreover, with little chance of winning the next election, the N.D.P. may be able to achieve some of its legislative goals by forcing concessions from the friend-in-need Liberals...
...largely by leaving his ministers to fight their own battles; meanwhile, he presided over a raft of social legislation intended to create what he called "the Good Society." In 1968 he relinquished the reins of the government and leadership of the Liberal Party, and was succeeded by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then Justice Minister. Pearson took on one final diplomatic task: heading a World Bank Commission on International Development, which in 1969 urged that foreign aid be virtually doubled...
Although, at 58, he is only five years older than Pierre Trudeau, Stanfield often seems a generation apart. Indeed, he has a married daughter and a son older than Trudeau's wife Margaret (who is 24), as well as two younger daughters. Stanfield's first wife was killed in an automobile crash in 1954; his second wife Mary is the daughter of a former justice of Nova Scotia. With the children scattered, the Stanfields have been living quietly in Ottawa at Stornoway, the official residence of Canada's Opposition Leader. His favorite pastime is gardening...