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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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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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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'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.
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I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
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