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Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
Diarist
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
Judge
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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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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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
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I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.
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The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
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I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an all Canadian boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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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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Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.
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I've always lived in a democratic society.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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