...Pierre Trudeau was a lawyer, author, university professor and exceptional politician who changed the shape of Canadian politics, government and the justice system forever. He was born in Montreal on October 18, 1919 to a wealthy family and died of cancer on September 28, 2000. Trudeau’s early belief system was strongly influenced by his parents, especially his father. His views on business, love of country, support of the Catholic Church and French Canadian culture were passed onto him by his father. He was a bright student who excelled at the elite Jesuit preparatory school Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and in law school at the University of Montreal. After graduating law school he practiced law and specialized in labor and civil liberty cases, issues he would later bring into focus for all of Canada. In 1961, Trudeau was a constitutional law professor at which point he began to consider turning to federal politics. In 1964 Trudeau decided to run for the Liberals and won a federal seat in 1965. He was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Justice and within a year, he had reformed the divorce laws and liberalized the laws on abortion and homosexuality. He eventually became the Prime Minister of Canada and served as Prime Minister for 15 years. During his term as a cabinet minister and prime minister he accomplished much including the appointment of women as the Speaker of the Senate and House of Commons and Governor General. However his greatest accomplishment...
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...Development. This led Pearson to move, to the United States of America as the Canadian ambassador to the United States. He was promoted to deputy minster of external affairs in 1946 by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Pearson also had a very crucial role in convincing Canada to joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This was Canada’s first military based peace alliance with the USA, Britain the some other nations of Western Europe. These events lead Lester Pearson to his greatest accomplishment in 1956 when he suggested a peacekeeping force to retrieve the British and French out of Europe during the Suez Crisis. It was these accomplishments that lead him to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Pearson essentially started to mold Canada’s identity and started shaping it into something more, with the bases of peacekeeping. These series of events is what lead to Lester B Pearson, becoming the Prime Minister of Canada in April 22, 1963. During his time as Prime Minster, his accomplishments were many for the country. Some examples would be, the Canadian pension plan, universal health care system, unified arm force, and the maple leaf flag. Most importantly however was the influence Pearson had on Canada’s nationalism. He believed in the dualism of the two opposed peoples of Canada, known as Anglophones and Francophone. When Quebec revealed that it did not want to be ran by an English government, Pearson knew this problem could be solved by cooperation. During his first year...
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...John A Macdonald was the architect of Confederation and had a vision of what Canada should look like and wouldn’t stop until he made it a reality. He showed this throughout his actions such as the 1867 Confederation, building the Canadian Pacific Railway as well as expanding Canada by buying Rupert’s Land. John A Macdonald spent over half of his lifetime dedicated to being a politician. Because of this it made him immensely skilled and is the reason he was better than other Politicians such as Cartier and Brown. Throughout Canadian History John A Macdonald proved that he made the greatest impact on the Confederation. John A Macdonald was a key figure in making the 1867 Confederation possible, which to many modern day Canadians consider the founding date of Canada. He set up Charlottetown Conference to meet with the Maritime colonies to convince them to join Canada. John A Macdonald’s emphasized the importance of having one government overlook Canada as whole. At this time, there was an American Civil War going on and many Canadians feared that the US military would try to take over Canada. John A Macdonald used this to his advantage, he argued that if Canada was joined as one the United States would not try go after them. These actions by John A Macdonald showed how skilled of a politician he was. He was very experienced and was always involved with the government; he was elected at the age of 29 years old to the Legislative Assembly and was part of the government until he...
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...of your own government had the power to arrest you without reason or evidence. The War Measures Act did just that. The WMA was put in place on November 5, 1970 during the October Crisis. It was first created in 1914 during WWI. During this period two people were kidnapped, James Cross and Pierre Laporte by the terrorist group, the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ). Pierre Trudeau’s controversial response of installing the WMA caused chaos across Canada, specifically Quebec. It caused a state of apprehended insurrection where people were arrested without evidence. Implementing the act was out of fear for the unknown. It is compared as a “sledgehammer opening a peanut.” Approximately 500 people were arrested in the WMA. By examining...
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...From the surface, when we think of Canadian culture compared to United States culture; we perceive them to be one in the same. However, there are very distinct differences in their culture and business. Canada’s communication patterns are low key. Reserve, understatement, diplomacy and tact are key attributes and contrast sharply with the more direct approach of many Americans (Business Structures in Canada and Doing Business in Canada, n.d.). According to Global Road Warrior (n.d.), Canadians prefer a direct approach and value building long-term business relationships. They may discuss and negotiate the terms of a contract, but they prefer to receive direct information pertaining to their costs and other conditions. In a Canadian organization team members have the power to make decisions, and management is more of a collaborative effort than a hierarchy. In management style, Canadian managers are not expected to manage in an authoritarian or paternalistic manner but are, nonetheless, expected to be decisive. Management style could be characterized as informal and friendly with managers preferring to be seen as one of the guys, rather than as an aloof figure who stands apart from everybody else (Business Structures in Canada and Doing Business in Canada, n.d.). Canadians also value time and efficiency. Once a contract is agreed upon they prefer not to change the terms. Canadians generally believe that authority can be challenged. This could be a potential issue especially...
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... The legislation proposed by the Conservative party has enormous significance: Canadians citizens would no longer have the ability to travel where they want on the globe. Subsequently, the freedom of people will be limited. The Islamic State is a controversial subject, yet it does not mean that all the people who travel to “terrorist hotspots” such as Syria or Iraq have the intent to join terrorist groups (Latraverse, 2015). In addition, this legislation if implemented, would violate the section 6, mobility rights, which allow every citizen to enter, remain, and leave Canada (Dyck, 2011, p. 272). However, despite this fact, it also gives benefits to the people. Indeed, even if criminalizing travels to certain regions has a negative impact on people’s freedom; it is meaningful to the Canadian politics because this legislation will not only ensure the national security of the country by reducing the numbers of Canadian citizens that travel to the Islamic State with the purpose of joining terrorist activists. In brief, this legislation is significant to Canadian citizens in a positive and a negative way: it reduces their freedom but at the same time, it ensures their security. Which leads to an ethical question; what is more important freedom or security? According to the Government of Canada “as of early 2014, more than 130 individuals with Canadian connections were abroad and were suspected of supporting terrorism-related activities (Government of Canada...
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...Sir John Alexander MacDonald was a born leader he was smart, kind, and yet his private life was filled with grief. He effectively and efficiently made progress in Canada. He was crucial in building the Trans-Canada railroad which provided transportation all over Canada before planes and cars. He helped form Canada they way it is now bringing Nova Scotia, New Brunswick in 1867. Also later brining British Columbia, PEI, and Northwest Territories into Canadian Federation he sowed many individual provinces into a patchwork quilt now known as Canada. "If I had influence over the minds of the people of Canada, any power over their intellect, I would leave them this legacy: ‘Whatever you do, adhere to the Union. We are a great country, and shall...
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...Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the fifteenth prime minister of Canada and held this position for sixteen years. He was the most controversial Prime Minster in Canadian history. He made some tough decisions for the unity of Canada. He was Prime Minster from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984. In 1972 Trudeau returned with a minority Liberal government. I came to Canada as an immigrant and arrived in Montréal at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Later on, I came to know that he was the famous Prime Minster of Canada from Montreal. Trudeau had a vision of unified, bilingual and multicultural Canada. Trudeau used to drive sports cars, wore capes and floppy hats, and always had a red rose in his lapel. His charismatic, flamboyant and exciting...
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...The Second Prime Minister that has changed Canada is Pierre Elliot-Trudeau. Now we know him as our current Prime Minister’s father, Justin Trudeau. This is very important because it shows the hard work and dedication Pierre has set for his son. Both very inspiring to Canadians each has done their fair share to shape Canada and make it a country everyone would love. Pierre was born on October 19, 1919 in Outremont, Montreal to Charles-Emile Trudeau and Grace Elliot. He started his life as a journalist and lawyer and later went on to become the 15th different Prime Minister of Canada in 1968–79 and 1980–84. Trudeau was arguably Canada’s best-known politician, both at home and abroad. He was instrumental in negotiating Canada’s constitutional...
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...for such long periods of Canadian history. • Originally the party of disenfranchised French-Canadians and Catholics in the early colonial period, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries the Liberals evolved into a more generic, centrist party favoring traditional British liberal values of free markets and personal responsibility, as well as tolerant relations between French and English Canadians. Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), who championed all of the above to become the most successful and long-reigning of Canada’s early Liberal prime ministers, remains the iconic figure of commonsense, moderate Canadian liberalism of this period. • Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), ran the country from 1968 to 1984, and remains a sort of “founding father” figure of modern Canadian liberalism. • Trudeau believed that a larger, more activist Canadian government could help alleviate the country’s social and economic ills, and create a more compassionate and egalitarian “Just Society” in the process. • Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien (b. 1934) and his finance minister, Paul Martin (b. 1938), ran the country from 1993 to 2006, and are credited with helping move the Liberal Party to the centre by championing balanced budgets and low taxes. • Today, the Liberal Party portrays itself as a party that is fiscally conservative, but socially progressive. They are strongly supportive of abortion rights, gay marriage and ample immigration, but also favor a largely unregulated...
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...affirming the legality of that mass detention has yet to be overturned. There will always be limits to freedom; the pertinent question is where those lines are drawn and the role they play in the ordinary lives of the citizens. Limits on human freedom can be viewed likewise. In America there are definite limits but they are more like the moat; the citizens are hardly aware of them. They are not intrusive. Executive powers to establish military tribunals for example, are definite boundaries and gross infringements on the citizens’ freedom. Similarly Canada has its War Powers Act that gives its prime minister as sweeping a power as Malaysia’s ISA. Indeed the War Powers Act was used in 1970 by no less than the libertarian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Because these statutes are rarely invoked except in national emergencies, citizens do not feel constrained by them. One good recent example is Wikileaks and how Western nations, especially the United States, reacted...
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...calls for a general strike. It is the biggest social protest in British Columbia. 2. Who supported the government and why? (K: /1) Many people from the private sector support the government, like business men. 3. Who was watching the action in British Columbia and why? (K: /1) The other government watched the action in British Columbia because people will start rioting if Bill Bennet wins. The Night of Long Knives 1. What was Trudeau's goal regarding the Constitution? (K: /1) Trudeau’s goal regarding the constitution was to bring home the Canadian Constitution. 2. Who was part of the Gang of Eight and what was their goal? (K: /1) The Gang of Eight has all premiers expect for Ontario and New Brunswick. Their goal was to force Trudeau to negotiate because they feared that they would lose provincial power. 3. What do the premiers fear regarding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? (K: /1) The premiers fear that it would decreased their influence and...
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... Canadian History Project Part 4 & 5 Robert-Falcon Ouellette was born in Saskatchewan but was raised in Calgary of Cree descent. Ouellette has served with the navy for 18 years and is now setting his sights onto trying to become mayor of Winnipeg. Ouellette nows belongs to the navy reserves at HMCS CHIPPAWA in Winnipeg. Through his time in the navy, he has earned a PhD in Educational Anthropology by studying at night, becoming the second aboriginal man from Laval University to earn this degree.1 One of Ouellette’s main issues is making a greener city of Winnipeg. If Ouellette is voted in as mayor, he will create a fund to put towards the betterment of the city by paying for environmental programs. With Ouellette’s long term goal of trying to save Lake Winnipeg from pollution. “If Winnipeg is going to be a city of a million people by 2030, we need to learn to tread more lightly on the earth” says Bowman. Ouellette’s first plan of attack on pollution will to build new water treatment facilities and waste treatment facilities.2 There is the obvious advantage of a healthier, cleaner society by making drinking water more accessible and clean while improving air quality.3 Also by creating a cleaner and greener society, there would be a flourish of wildlife creating habitats for animals, while creating oxygen and getting right of carbon. It has also been proven that a greener society promotes well-being and improves mental health.4 The disadvantages to becoming a greener community...
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...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s 15th Prime Minister. He was the 3rd longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history. Did PM Trudeau improved Canada? Some may say that he did not because of the economy he left. But he changed the way Canadians thought in a good way such as he reduced the racism, homophobia and he supported women’s rights.The first paragraph is about Canada and multiculturalism , second paragraph is about legalization of homosexuality and finally last paragraph is about women’s rights and Pierre Trudeau. Pierre Trudeau is the one responsible for multiculturalism in Canada. Canada which has diversity among people. He is also the one that created Canadian Cultural Mosaic. In 1971, Canada was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as an official policy. By so doing, Canada affirmed the value and dignity of all Canadian citizens regardless of their racial or ethnic origins, their language, or their religious affiliation.The federal government, under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, declared in 1971 that Canada would adopt multicultural policy.Canada would recognize and respect its society included diversity in languages,...
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...The centennial of Canadian Confederation in 1976 generated greater interest within Canada in constitutional matters, including reform. Such reforms could include improving safeguards of rights, as well as partition of the Constitution, which would have meant the British Parliament would no longer half to approve constitutional amendments. Trudeau became Liberal leader and Premiere in 1968. He still very much wanted a constitutional bill of rights. The federal government and the provinces discussed creating one during negotiations for partition, which resulted in the Victoria Charter in 1971. It wasn’t ever implemented. However Trudeau continued with his efforts to patriot the Constitution and promised constitutional change during the 1980...
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