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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
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What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin it is crimes that it must define.
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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.
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The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up
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Long live free France.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
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We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.
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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
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In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.
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I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.
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I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
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I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.
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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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