| Pierre Trudeau became the 15th Prime
Minister of Canada when he was elected in 1968. Rt. Hon. Pierre
Elliot Trudeau was born on Oct. 18, 1919, in Montreal, Quebec. He
served as Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, at which point he was
defeated by Joe Clark's Conservatives. He took office again in
1980 and stayed as P.M. until 1984, when he retired. When he took
over as P.M. from Lester B. Pearson, who resigned (1968), he was
hailed "the man for today." The biggest problem Trudeau had to
deal with was the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) Crisis. The
group of terrorists wanted sovereignty for Quebec so badly that
they kidnapped a British cabinet Minister, and muredered a Quebec
cabinet Minister.
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