POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Lester B. Pearson, Northwest Passage, Externality
Document Summary
Trudeau personally didn"t like any of the presidents during his time of office part of the reason why canada-us relations weren"t good 80s were not good economically. G7 extremely important not bilateral relations canada was active participant emerging global change trade barriers economic change, beginning of the end for the cold war. Was not an experienced politician, virtually no parliamentary experience. Multoney was largely outsider turn away from more heavily favoured insiders. Joe clark remained in politics, ran for leadership and was defeated by mulroney. Trudeau and mulroney are two great men in the same period in history, but a lot of similarities both bilingual, bicultural quebeckers. Majority government in 88, only 2 seats in 1993 elections smashed party apart. Mulroney"s legacy domestically is bloc quebecois representing quebec (division) represents a brand of conservatism that led to party to electoral catastrophe. Li = multilateralism, helped to pioneer new consensus.
