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Outside his homeland, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is still regarded by some people as a debonair political-intellectual with a certain Kennedy-like flair. But Trudeaumania has long since faded away in Canada. After eight years in office, the Prime Minister is increasingly seen by Canadians as an impetuous "philosopher king," contemptuous of both voters and Parliament. His economic policies are under savage attack, and his Liberal government (which has an 18-seat majority in the House of Commons) has become embroiled in scandal. His popularity and prestige have slipped so low, in fact, that some believe that Canada...
Rambling Interview. The real signs of trouble for the Trudeau administration came last fall, when persistent double-digit inflation and climbing unemployment forced the Prime Minister to adopt price and wage controls-a Tory proposal he had ridiculed in the 1974 campaign. The policy itself received overwhelming public support, but its imprecise application (changes in the rules are still being made almost weekly) angered and alienated both labor and business. Complained one top appliance-company executive: "How in hell can you make plans for production when you don't know what the policy really...
...Garry Trudeau. Zonker lives...
Joanie Caucus is whose favorite Trudeau character? Ms. Caucus is a menopausal potato, clearly modeled on Sarah Moore...
...Trudeau's use of repeated backgrounds, a cinematographic technique, lets characters develop and philosophies emerge because the sets never upstage the actors and the message. I think any film director would be delighted "to strike an attitude or sink a platitude" in only four frames. Try it some time...