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Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who on Saturday became Canada's fifteenth Prime Minister, is an unconventional man. He drives fast cars and wears sandals into the House of Commons. He has thrown snowballs at Stalin's statue in Red Square, and has been blacklisted by the U.S. State Department for suspected Communist affiliations. As a Montreal professor and journalist, he has spent a good part of the last few years criticizing and ridiculing the same Liberal party which this month chose him as its new leader. And as he assume Canada's highest office, Trudeau's political career is still only...
...addition to his personal appeal, Trudeau has had other factors working for him in his leadership campaign--his French Canadian birth, and an endorsement by Pearson's conservative Finance Minister, Mitchell Sharp. Many Liberals felt that a French Canadian Prime Minister would be best able to deal with French Canada's increasing demands for political and economic sovereignty. The problem with Trudeau was that he had a reputation as a leftist, and here Sharp's support served to convince many right-of-center Liberals that Trudeau was politically "sound" after...
...fact, Trudeau's administration will probably be somewhat more "sound" than many of his supporters were hoping when they elected him. The new P.M.'s foreign policy (with Mitchell Sharp as External Affairs Minister) will probably not differ radically from Pearson's, although Trudeau has announced that he will seek to decrease Canada's military commitments to NATO and the United Nations. No break with the United States over Vietnam is forseeable, although there is considerable opposition to U.S. policies both in Canada generally and within the Liberal government. Trudeau has already made it clear that he will not attempt...
...Trudeau administrations most severe test will come not on foreign policy, but over the question of the status of French Canada within the Canadian Confederation. Trudeau has taken a hard-line stance on demands by French Canadian nationalists--notably Quebec's Premier Daniel Johnson--that Canada's constitution be rewritten to confer a special status on Quebec transferring Quebec a wide range of powers now held by the Federal government in Ottawa. By opposing all such demands, Trudeau runs the risk of losing much of his remaining support among French Canadians--an ironic predicament for a French Canadian Prime Minister...
...same time, Bachelor Trudeau set out to shed his image as a carefree ladies' man and swinger. "I expect to start mounting some opposition to my former self," he said. "I will not be the Pierre Elliott Trudeau I used to be." The demands of his new job will see to that. Rather than leggy young women, he suddenly found himself surrounded by burly bodyguards. Instead of driving his powder blue Mercedes, he is now being chauffeured in a Chevrolet. And at week's end, forgoing the usual victory parties, he went into seclusion "somewhere on the continent...