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...Pierre Elliott Trudeau...
When Pierre Trudeau succeeded Lester Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada nearly two years ago, he seemed just the man to lead his divided nation into a new age. He was a brilliant teacher of law, a respected liberal reformer, a trendy bachelor. Even in the U.S., which usually pays little more attention to Canadian politics than to the Albanian economy, Trudeau's Gallic glamour had its effect, possibly because Americans had such lackluster candidates of their...
...symbol, especially those of the young sea otter, who is clubbed to death by entrepreneurs seeking to obtain their valuable white furs. Despite a public outery which forced Canada's Parliament to pass weak legislation which managed to regulate the murders last year, the pressure on reluctant Prime Minister Trudeau to outlaw the profitable thoug grisly business continues to build...
...longer reflected the same degree of trust and innocence. And because the beaters could swim, went the reasoning, the St. Lawrence hunters would have to use guns, not clubs, to take their limit of 50,000 pups. "Those who protested the kill ings," said a bored Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, "won't be shown the same pictures of baby seals with their big blue or brown eyes...
...their pups were at their familiar photogenic peak when the hunt began. The result was another field day for Canada's animal-rights activists, whose sense of publicity is every bit as keen as their sense of humanity. Perhaps Ottawa should find a surer way of neutralizing what Trudeau has called the "emotional distaste" of the hunt - like ending it altogether...