Pierre Trudeau Quotes
Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau was prime minister from Canada
“I was forty-six when I started. Everyone around me had already finished. Turns out I was just preparing longer than the rest.”— Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau entered Parliament at 46, became PM at 48. Before that: Harvard, LSE, Sciences Po, and years backpacking through China, India, the Middle East. His late start became his advantage.
The Story of Pierre
September 28, 2000
Trudeau died on September 28, 2000, in Montreal. He was eighty. His funeral train crossed Canada, and people stood along the tracks in the rain to watch it pass. He had served as Prime Minister for nearly sixteen years across two terms. He gave Canada official bilingualism, multiculturalism as policy, the Charter of Rights, and the patriated Constitution. His son Justin would become Prime Minister in 2015.
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