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Ideologically, the party is spent and its integrity sold to the small "s" socialism that is Trudeau's own. Unlike the rejuvenated and widely popular opposition Conservatives, the Liberal party has no program, no platform. Its body has long been attached to the head of its leader...
Outside Parliament, however, most Canadians have not been so duped. Most contentious has been Trudeau's xenophobic national socialism which served to restrict foreign investment and to suffocate the crucial oil and gas industry in the name of Canadian control...
...malaise finally crept into Trudeau's own party. An autocrat who rarely consulted caucus, Trudeau exploited his power of personality and cultivated his dislike for day-to-day administration. Accountability to the press and to members of his own party became less and less frequent, but back-benchers kept their mouths shut--knowing Trudeau was the only hope for their own political backsides...
...result has been economic disaster. Without foreign capital (especially U.S. dollars). Canada's economy has been paralyzed. Given its reliance on primary resources and a small population, Canada desperately needs investment and foreign good will. But Trudeau systematically denied this, while at the same time denying responsibility for all economic problems--ironically citing his nation's inability to control the effects of the world marketplace...
...Even Trudeau's largest success--repatriating the Canadian constitution in 1980--brought mixed results. Trudeau wished to break the last colonial ties with London and symbolically bring Canada back to Canadians. He succeeded, but only after embroiling the provinces in unseemly squabbles and making the country painfully aware of its fragile condition...