Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau had an intelligent influence on Canada, its culture and society in general. The four important areas that will be focused on this essay are the great leader of Canada, his life style, FLQ cries and how he scarified his life to Canadians.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a politician, a lawyer, a writer and one of Canada’s greatest prime ministers whom had the idea of Canada’s independence and acted on it. Trudeau came into the political scene like no other leader before him. He had only been in House of Commons for two and a half years when he was chosen to be the leader of the Liberal party in April 1968. He was born in Montreal on October 18, 1919, and Trudeau grew up in a bilingual family. His father was a successful French-Canadian businessman and his mother was of Scottish ancestry. He studied law at the University of Montreal. He earned a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University and went to Europe for post–graduate work at the Ecole des SciencesPolitiques in Paris and the London School of Economics. He served on the Privy Council for three years as a desk officer in Ottawa, and in 1950 he helped found the Cité Libre (free city) a monthly critical review. “We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada” (Pierre Trudeau, pg. 50). Trudeau loves Canada as you can tell. In 1952, he returned to Montreal to practice law, specializing in labour law and civil liberties cases. In 1961, Trudeau was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Montreal until his entry into federal politics in the general election of 1965 and he became minister of justice.
Secondly, when the FLQ crisis erupted, he stood up for it. If he didn’t stand up for it, Quebec would have separated from Canada, and thus Canada would be torn apart, but it didn’t happen. Also, he influenced and affected society forever. The FLQ were a group of