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Pierre Elliott Trudeau will arrive in China on October 10 for a week-long state visit, with the usual wining, dining and sightseeing. That is a considerably friendlier prospect than the Prime Minister has been facing back home in Canada...
...Trudeau is beset by serious political and economic woes. Despite all his efforts, Canada is reeling from growing inflation and rising unemployment. Quebec separatists regard the Official Languages Act-which makes French along with English the official language of government-as tokenism. The western provinces growl that the government is ignoring their problems...
Clearly the "Trudeaumania" that swept Canada with Trudeau's election in 1968 has withered. When they put him in office, Canadians thought that they were getting a lively Kennedy-like leader, and for a while he did not disappoint them. He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons...
...another side of Trudeau also began to emerge. He grew imperious in his dealings with the Commons, openly sneered at members who disagreed with him (favorite asides: "dope," "blockhead," "fool"). He seemed at times to become equally disdainful of the electorate. He tended to lecture rather than orate. While staffers groaned, he announced last fall that he would not campaign in his first re-election bid. Instead, he would hold "conversations with Canadians" on important issues...
...distinguished scholars have included Bertrand Russell, Arnold Toynbee and Harold Laski. Among its students have been several foreigners who went on to become heads of state, including John F. Kennedy, Jomo Kenyatta and Pierre Trudeau. Now a foreigner has been chosen, for the first time, to become head of the L.S.E...