Pierre Trudeau: The Man Who Made Modern Canada 

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Doesn't matter which one you bring up both are hated in Alberta.

"While Petro-Canada was somewhat unpopular in most of Alberta," Holy, that is a heck of an understatement.

Good job doing a video on an important figure from Canadian history. I think it's great when people take an interest in Canadian history and politics.

Well that's a new pronunciation of "Keynesian."

This is going to be controversial and I am not even an Canadian

I can't believe you didn't mention his controversial, failed, yet very important White Paper Policy, where he wanted to fully integrate (assimilate) First Nations into Western society. You could easily make a whole episode on that.

I grew up in the 1970s and early 80s. I was 17 years old when Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister (for the second and final time), and he was the only Prime Minister (other than Joe Clark) that I knew of. I remember well the 1980 election. I was 14 at the time, and it's the first election where I paid attention to the issues. It was one of Canada's only Winter elections (traditionally we only hold elections in the Spring or Fall). As you correctly stated, it was triggered by the Clark Government's failure to pass their budget. They had a minority government, and could have had their budget passed if they had obtained the support of the small right-wing Créditiste party from Québec, but for some reason they failed. The budget was unpopular in Ontario because it meant that people who heat their homes with oil would have had to pay more. You have to understand that this was during the 1970s oil crisis, and oil prices in Canada had been kept artificially low, and most Canadian oil comes from Alberta, which is where Joe Clark came from and which was the stronghold of the Progressive-Conservative Party. So in the budget I think they lifted price controls on oil, which made Joe Clark's political base in Alberta happy, but he forgot that Ontario and Quebec have far more votes than does Alberta, and that at the time most people still heated with oil, and that the election was taking place in the winter. So the PCs basically lost that election because people were angry at the prospect of their winter heating bills going up.

Who's waiting for JJ to show up?

I was in grade school when Pierre was elected. None of us cared about politics except we knew we were forced to learn French for 15 minutes a day, three time per week. I had finished university and was working when Pierre, still PM, walked right through the Canadian Constitution and invoked the National Energy Program. I saw friends lose their jobs and their homes. Pierre did a lot to divide Canada and both the First Nations and Western Canada were treated with disdain. Many considered him to be a horrible Prime Minister, that was until his son Justin became PM and easily took over that title. The two worst things to happen to Canadian politics were Pierre and Justin Trudeau.

Very good vidéo, but an important thing not mentionned : the 1982 constitution was adopted in Québec's back and it was a betrayal of a promise made by Trudeau during the 1980 referendum. To this day, Québec never signed this constitution.

17:05 "after consulting leaders of every province" and "some disagreement in Quebec" is a bit misleading. The constitution was made and signed without Quebec's approval and to this day Quebec still didn't sign it and is a big stab to Canada's unity.

Im extremely glad to be canadian!!

Saying he made modern Canada when talking about politics might not be considered a compliment

As a proud Canadian and history enthusiast I'm ashamed of how little I know about this stuff. Anyone know of any good Canadian political history sources? Like I could watch videos like this all day.

Social Studies teachers in Canada literally spend half the class time rambling about Canadian History but don't even mention Pierre except when talking about the charter of rights and freedoms. This video is much needed

Finding about this man as a fresh-off the boat temporary resident was an interesting venture. "Just watch me." is one of the most badass political quotes ever made. The whole return of the Constitution business confused the hell out of me though.

Epic comment section

Justin is half the man his father was.

Very informative! Thank you emperor for these videos!😃

After Mulroney changed the healthcare system by leaving it to the provinces and selling off Petro Canada he introduced the GST. The GST replaced the amount of money Petro Canada was pouring (no pun intended) into the government account. He was tossed out of office with only one Conservative seat remaining in the House of Commons.

thanks for covering modern canadian history :)! i rarely see canadian history outside of boring educational videos/news clips, or events from before the second world war.

great work, loved the video!

Oh boy I can already see the chaos in the comments

This was very pleasant.

Great video! I haven't seen many people talk about canada or canadian politics despite the fact its so interesting. So good job!

hi, I really wanted you to know that im excited for the indigenous-centered north america video you previewed a while ago. i appreciate you covering that topic in particular, and am very much looking forward to it. xx

He convinced me separation was the only option for the West! Nothing has changed.

Now do one on Tommy Douglas!

Great video! Keep it up!

Such a great video! It deserves more views!

Let's go to the comments, to see what the experts thinks

Fantastic video!

Well produced and covered.

Great video!

Canada is still recovering…

Isn't it pronounced 'Cane-z-in' economics?

I'd love for you to make a video on Einar Gerhardsen, Norway's longest ruling prime minister and seen by many as the father of Norway, Ruling between 1945-1969

“The Man Who Made Modern Canada” is not necessarily a compliment

good video, make more like this

you forgot the kitchen's meeting or how its called in Quebec the night of the long knives, the main cause of the second referandom's resaults for Quebec's independence

Great video

As a leader of a country and government, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. May as well leave a legacy behind. Unlike any of our other PM's, Trudeau's legacy, charisma and intellect will stay with Canadians till the end. Can't say the same for our many other PM's that's for sure regardless of their performance.

As much as I disagree with both trudeau’s policies. I have so much respect for Pierre, wouldn’t have voted for him but I would have had faith in him and have so much respect for him. Justin... not so much.

I wish you would have talked more about his involvement with the 60's scoop or his relationship with indigenous Canadians in general

The man that was the beginning of the end of Canada!

That 1979 budget failure reminds me at bit of 2019-2020 Israel

The metric nightmare, the constitution that Quebec never signed but allowed a provincial party to have seats in parliament

Great video, very interesting, and loads of information. Small criticism the music was really loud throughout it. Especially the song with singing and became distracting because your voice in comparison was only slightly louder. Would be grateful if the music could be lower volume. Thanks and keep it up!

fun fact comedian Leslie Neilsen's older brother Erik was Canada Deputy PM and lattery Leader of the Opposition

"The man who made modern canada" I think he needed to go back to the drawing board.

I still find it creepy that he met Justins mom when she was 18 (he was 48) and no one really talks about how weird that is. He divorced her after he was done being prime minister because their marriage broke apart, she was forced to raise 2 children on her own effectively while in her 20s, he was busy governing in the middle of Canada's biggest constitutional crisis. Its understandable why she got bipolar disorder. As a person he was actually a scumbag that if it were just some random guy instead of Prime Minister, people would judge differently.

Strange how his succesful attempt at sabotaging the Meech Lake Accords and his exceptionnaly condescendant view on Quebec culture and identity (he just wanted to see a centuries-old nation die altogether and speak, in his words, "proper french") were not mentionned....J.J. will be happy.

He joins Lester B. Pearson as one of the most important Canadian Prime Ministers in history especially regarding foreign affairs.

This video's are very important I remember back I school they teach the basics but never actually go in on historical figures in Canada

I enjoyed the video. I would've even liked it if you hadn't added the sponsor in the middle of the damn thing.

I saw the title and i thought this was a J.J. Video

why is it that every time I think of a video topic, you show up in my recommended with that exact topic. Anyway great video

I don’t know how accurate of a comparison this is but as an American I have always thought of Pierre Trudeau as a Canadian FDR

I want more videos on Canada

For the Joe Clark government, that Budget would have passed today!.

Cette fois c'est oui René

Didn't canada's biggest terrorist attack happened under his watch even after multiple warnings? lol

The first televised debate in Canada was Diefenbaker/Pearson in 1957.

Interesting, but the background plonking is too loud and intrusive.

New pronunciation of Keynesian just dropped.

the photo with OUI in the background is shown, John Truner

At least you did sources this time lol.

I was born when he'd been in office a couple of years, in last year middle school when he left. I've hated him ever since and spit on his memory. But he was a titan, an intellectual wildly superior to his son in every way, a statesman even, and the title is right. He had a vision, and he set things in motion never to be resolved. He felt that he had to destroy the nationalism of French Canada, to do that he had to destroy what was left of the nationalism of English Canada, and although I think he had a sort of new Canadian nationalism in mind, it didn't quite entirely work that way.

The man who excluded Québec from it...

I lived in Canada as a child during the Mulroney years, and I vaguely remember the collapse of the Progressive Conservative government, however aside from fuddle duddle I really didn't know much about Trudeau - even though we learned about the Constitution in class, I don't quite remember if we were taught that it was Trudeau. Thank you for doing this.

I'd argue that Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Trudeau make a trifecta of sorts of the PMs who made modern Canada. They are all incredibly important. Pierre Trudeau saved Canada in 1970, 1980, 1984 and 1992. He couldn't have had that ability were it not for the contractions of the other two.

This comment section is going to be lit.

North Korea: chooses leader based on his father instead of any actual qualifications Canada: first time?

Insert angry albertan comment-an angry albertan

Kinda weird Pierre supported Canadian oil from what's being shown here yet his son anti energy from Canada

Growing up in Los Angeles, I knew a few Canadian immigrants who absolutely hated Trudeau. Some were part French.

He was a lawyer by training. He set Canada up in a good legal setting.

So was similar to the Australian PM Bob Hawke in the 1980s.

What the name of the band playing this hound dog?

He was 20 when WW2 started and claimed to be a separatist to avoid actually going? Damn I didn’t know that. Funny how he was so willing to use the military in office and didn’t mind Cuba at all.

This is a man inspired me when I came to Canada because of him I voted liberals over 4 decades .

William L. Mackenzie King is still ten times the Prime Minister!

I have been known him very short periods of time . Only just an opinion. For sure one of brilliant politicians Canadian ever had

What's the song at 5:20?

The Statute of Westminster (1931) was a sort of Schrödinger's Cat of Independence. Under the terms of the statute, the British Parliament could not legislate for Canada without the assent of the Canadian government. That is, no act of the British Parliament applied to Canada unless Canada agreed to it. At the same time, if Canada requested to change its Constitutional arrangement vis a vis the UK, the British Parliament was obliged to put any requested changes up for a vote. This is known as the "Request and Assent" provisions. As a consequence of Request provision, Canadian criminal cases could no longer be appealed to British courts starting in 1935 after the Canadian government proposed this change. The Supreme Court of Canada became the highest court of appeal in Canada in criminal cases. Under the Assent provision, the British declaration of war on Germany in 1939 did not apply to Canada. The government of Canada supported war with Germany, however, and waited one week to make its own separate declaration. The Request and Assent provisions were applied several times in later years. The 1982 Constitution Act ended this practice, which had long become a nuisance of formality. Pierre Trudeau sought the approval of all provinces in doing this, even if legally he did not need to. His idea was that such a big change was similar to the founding of the Dominion in 1867. Only Quebec failed to sign on. The Constitutional amendment formula propose, and adopted, require 2/3rds of the provinces representing at least 50% of the population to agree. This was achieved. Adding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms at the same time was the real change of that year, and it was Pierre Trudeau's greatest accomplishment that ripples on to today.

Just don't mention him West of ThunderBay and East of Vancouver and you should be fine.

This gotta be the most angry comment section I've seen

I remember the senior Trudeau era as a high unemployment era in Atlantic Canada. I remember beating the streets looking for work and high inflation, inflation just like now in 2024! Overall I'm disappointed in both Trudeau eras and my pension is small because the Liberals could not improve the economy if their lives depended on it.

English Canada be like, "le grille what the hell is that."

Great video, people complaining of his policy and yet people lived a bit better than today, new emigrants were able to raise and feed a family on only one income and somehow manage a car as well without help from the government

Can you make a video of the prime minister of Turkey?

Terrible man. From residential schools to bankrupting farmers and then giving the Canadians he served the middle finger. We could have done much better in our past than him.

tnc

18:37 literally 1984

This animal was a corrupt person. He made it difficult for Alberta to prosper.

6:45 Yes this is the popular narrative and image about Pierre Trudeau . However , the reality is quite different . For example , Pierre Trudeau did not support Public Health Care Payments for Canada's Public Health Care used to be split 50 - 50 between the federal government and Provinces , but then Trudeau quietly decoupled this arrangement . The Provinces now pay about 80% of the health care costs in Canada . Trudeau wanted a more federalist approach because he wanted more power over the Provinces . .

POS X2. The CPC will have a hell of a clean up.

Trudeu gloria!

I'm a year older than Justina Brandeau, and his father is older than my Grandfather... I don't get it...???