Word: trudeau
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...United States has no federal legislation comparable to Canada's War Emergency Act invoked by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau yesterday, two Law School professors said last night...
...greatest problem of the Tories is, as usual, Ted Heath. A bachelor at 53, he is hardly a Trudeau-like swinger. The son of a carpenter, he is often put down as an arriviste by the snobbish Tory squirearchy, and resented as overly stuffy by workingmen. An uninspired orator, he so lacks appeal that he has rarely registered more than 30% approval in the polls. "Despite all the publicity for him," a leading Tory complains, "he still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson...
...booted out of the Canadian Officers Training Corps for lack of discipline." Not so" he said. "I failed to come up to academic and health standards, and was not considered leadership material." Which may come as a surprise to 21 million Canadians, since today Pierre Elliott Trudeau is their Prime Minister...
Proof of Support. In Ottawa, Canadian Premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who as the national Liberal leader abided by Canadian custom and did not get involved in the provincial politicking, hailed the vote as "a victory for Canada -proof without any doubt that Quebec people overwhelmingly support federalism." It was also a victory for Quebec's Liberal Leader Robert Bourassa, who at 36 will become the youngest Premier in Quebec's history. A lanky professor of economics and fiscal law, Bourassa, who took over the provincial party leadership only last January, campaigned on a platform of "making federalism work...
...weeks ago, as the U.S. supertanker Manhattan was heading north on its second experimental Arctic voyage, Trudeau responded to Canadian concern over possible future oil pollution by extending Ottawa's jurisdiction to 100 miles northward from its shores. The measure, in effect, establishes Canadian control over shipping through the Northwest Passage. Some Canadians wanted him to assert full-fledged sovereignty over the waters rather than mere jurisdiction, but Trudeau characteristically chose the more reasonable course. "This pollution legislation," he said, "is not jingoist. It is not anti-American." Nonetheless, Washington last week sent a strong protest to Ottawa...