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...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...
CANADA'S Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, flashed across the political firmament four years ago as the most magnetic leader since John F. Kennedy. He was cool, intellectual, aloof and telegenic-and, said his critics, arrogant. Last week it was a considerably humbled Trudeau who appeared at a nationally televised press conference. In a direct and stinging rebuke, Canadian voters had stripped his Liberal government of its majority in the 264-seat House of Commons and, as Trudeau put it, "conveyed to me and my colleagues that there have been failures." Now he announced his intention of calling Parliament...
Mess. That sudden change in Trudeau's political fortunes was caused by the strangest election result that Canadians had ever imposed upon themselves. At week's end, with several closely contested constituencies scheduled to undergo recounts, the two largest parties seemed, incredibly, to be tied with 109 seats each. The Progressive Conservatives, led by Robert Stanfield, had won nearly all their seats in English-speaking provinces; Trudeau's Liberals were elected principally in French-speaking Quebec. The rest were divided among the socialist-oriented New Democratic Party (30), the right-wing populist Social Credit Party...
...mess could fairly be blamed on Trudeau, who had somehow managed to turn voters off in the course of an eight-week campaign of seemingly calculated indifference. He picked as his theme "the integrity of Canada," a precise but passionless way of declaring his opposition to Quebec separatism, and as his slogan "the land is strong," which is practically meaningless. He could not, it seemed, communicate any sense of concern over Canada's appallingly high unemployment rate of 7.1 %. As a Cabinet colleague cynically put it, Trudeau was simply unable to "bleed a little" for the electorate...
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...