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Last week, as Parliament assembled for the first time since his election, Trudeau promised that the House of Commons would be "a jumping place." That will be in keeping with the pace that the Prime Minister has set. While Canadians are enjoying the Trudeau panache, he is savoring the perquisites of his office. On a 9,780-mile swing through the Arctic last month, he acquired a sealskin parka, drove a motorcycle across the permafrost, and danced with an Eskimo go-go girl. During a recent visit to Montreal, he spent an evening clinking glasses at Man and His World...
Businessmen ask for his autograph on dollar bills. Hippies string medallions around his neck. Teen-age girls line up to kiss him. After a summer in office, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau is still prodigiously popular among Canadians, who are clearly as delighted as they can be with the new national image that he is shaping...
Bounds of Propriety. As Canada's most eligible bachelor, the 48-year-old Trudeau has dated a succession of smashing girls during the summer, most of them some 20 years younger than himself. Presumably to their disappointment, he has not been known to overstep the bounds of prime-ministerial propriety. Asked if he intends to marry any particular girl, Trudeau's stock reply is: "Yes, but she changes from hour to hour...
...area of foreign policy, Trudeau's Cabinet is already searching for new ideas. Generally, Trudeau believes that Canada ought to adjust to a role as a small power, should be more selective in its peace-keeping missions for the U.N., should seek better relations with both Latin America and, because of its bicultural policy at home, with the French-speaking states. As for U.S. investment, a perennial bugbear, Trudeau approves of it but favors keeping laws that prevent foreign subsidiaries from dominating key industries...
Prickliest Issue. While Trudeau's victory was largely one of personality rather than party, it was also an endorsement of his stand on Quebec-which is the bitterest and prickliest issue in Canada today. Trudeau advocates a strong Canadian federation. Though he is French-Canadian, he is more firmly opposed to a separate status for Quebec than a number of English-speaking politicians. The new Prime Minister is committed to a policy of spreading the use of French throughout the country and making the French Canadians feel at home outside Quebec. Already, Trudeau is appealing to young Quebecois...