Term Papers on Pierre Elliot Trudeau

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau

      Unlike the United States, with its generalissimo politics-Washington, Jackson,
Grant, Eisehower- the martial arts have been conspicuously absent from Canadian
politics.  But there in one exception: in 1968 Pierre Elliot Trudeau became the first
Canadian leader to bring the gunslinger-Lone Ranger ethos to Canadian politics.
      Trudeau introduced to Canada the refined art of single combat; it was the
politics of "Doing It My Way"-the politics of going my way or being left behind.
Single-combat confrontation implied much mor than the loner or renegade in power, and
far far less than the shaman black tricks of Mackenzie King.  Trudeau was always far
more the solo Philosopher King engaged in intellectual trial by combat than the Magus
Merlin conjuring up solutions by puffs of smoke, sleight of hand or divine
intervention.  Ouijaboard politics was the occult domain of Mackenzie King, a man
virtually devoid of policy, a political palm reader forever checking the whims and
moods of his powerful baronial-Ralston Howe, St. Laurent-and sometimes Byronian
colleagues to see how best he could placate them, or calm them, or Heap his beatitudes
upon them.
      Trudeau, from day one , was always more samurai than shaman.  Even in his pre-
leadership days, Trudeau's love of trial by combat was predominant.  Mackenzie King
would have never touched the unholy trinity of divorce, abortion and homosexuality:
each one of these issues is a sleeping dog best left to lie; each could only infuriate
conservative Canada from coast to coast.  Since King dared not touch them seriatim
he certainly would not have touched them together-in an omnibus bill.
      This, Trudeau did joyously.  The myths-makers have it at this was Trudeau's
first deliberated joust, the kingship being the final prize.  But Trudeau had no
leadership aspirations at the time; all that he had, still has, was the love of combat
for the sake of combat and religious scruples be damned.  Trudeau the Catholic zealot
tackle divorce, abortion and homosexuality active Prime Minister in this country's
history, liberated the homosexual practitioners of black acts totally abhorrent to
him; ironically, in the process, Trudeau gave irrational Canada a pretext for branding
him a homosexual too.
      P.E.T. has always hated the consensus building of Mackenzie King; even the
populist following of a Diefenbaker was an anathema to Trudeau.  The single-combat
warrior "doing it my way" is always alone; he leads the people but is not of them;
like the prophet he wanders either in dessert or lush green pastures and often, like
the prophet, he watches his people march into the Promised Land without him.  For
Trudeau, being alone is to be free; victory is a consequence of solitude;
companionship an act of weakness, cronyism even wise.
      It is ironic that Trudeau, a devout Jansenist Roman Catholic, emotionally and
philosophically opposed to both divorce and abortion, should grant Canadians greatly
expanded divorce rights and their first right to legale abortion.
      Trudeau took the unholy trinity then disturbing the bedrooms of the nation
because all three were trial combat, all three required one strong man to push them
through.  In this minefield Canada's political loner had walked alone and apparently
loved it.
      Canada's other solo flyer, John Diefenbaker, may or may not have been a renegade
in power, but the input his holitics received from Senate cronies and Kitchen cabinets
was enormous.  The letters and advice that daily poured in to the chief were a
populist input that Diefenbaker slavishly adhered to.  Trudeau was no Diefenbaker;
he was neither a populist nor a renegade.  Trudeau was simply a man who brilliantly
massaged and manipulated others so that his single will appeared to be the will of
many, so that his will be always done.
      The theme of my-way politics sheds much light on the vrai Trudeau, the Trudeau
that is, rather than the Trudeau people think there is.  Trudeau has never been the ...

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