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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
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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What shall we do about the Abortion Bill? A: Pay it!
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
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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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I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.
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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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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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Long live free France.
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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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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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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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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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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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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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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 state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.
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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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