Pierre Trudeau was born on October 18, 1919 in Montréal, Québec, Canada as Joseph Phillipe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau. He was an actor and writer, known for Le confort et l'indifférence (1982), 24 heures ou plus... (1977) and Dief! (1981). He was married to Margaret Trudeau. He died on September 28, 2000 in Montréal.
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[on temporarily stepping down as Prime Minister, 1979] With all it's sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it's still a beautiful world.
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The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.
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In 1980, on the deluge of Canadian movies made under his government's lax film production tax shelter laws: "It's amazing what a few tax shelter laws can do. There are now many Canadian films. But there aren't too many good ones, are there?"
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Just watch me.
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Interred at family mausoleum in St-Remi-de-Napierville, south of Montreal
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Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator, came to Canada for Trudeau's funeral, the first time he had been out of Cuba in over a decade.
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In 1978 his government passed liberalized tax-shelter laws which created a then-unprecedented deluge of Canadian film production(from 1979-1981, approximately 130 feature films were produced, with only about half receiving distribution).
Trudeau was black-listed for several years during the 1950s and denied entry to the United States because of his visits to communist China and an international economics conference in the Soviet Union.
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The most flamboyant politician in Canadian history, Trudeau was applauded by some and condemned by others for his behavior both in and out of office.
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Introduced the catchphrase "fuddle duddle" to Canada when he was overheard swearing in the House of Commons but claimed he had just said "fuddle duddle."
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His first name was actually Joseph and he had five middle names. Professionally he went by his third (Pierre) and fifth (Elliott) names.
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Always appeared in public wearing a red rose in his lapel.
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Major political achievements include loosening the federal laws against divorce and homosexuality, resolving the most serious terrorist incident in Canadian history by invoking temporary martial law in the October crisis in 1970, defeating the first referendum to decide if the province of Quebec would secede from Canada, bringing the federal constitution under Canadian control from Britain and the entrenchment of a Charter of Rights and Freedoms into that Constitution.
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His youngest son, Michel, died in an avalanche in British Columbia, Canada, in November 1998, at the age of 23.
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Over 70,000 people visited Trudeau's body during the three days that it lay in state after his death. His funeral was attended by many ex-Prime Ministers, ex-Presidents, foreign dignitaries, and his personal friend, Fidel Castro.
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