Yeah, Trudeau was really cool. He was the most interesting politician Canada has ever had, in my opinion.

Man, my parents just hated him! At any rate, my mother did...and she does to this day. She's a political junkie, completely absorbed in politics 7 days a week, and she tends to absolutely hate the politicians she's opposed to, rather than just disagreeing with them. In Trudeau's case, she hated him primarily because she thought that he brought about the destruction of the old Canada...the society she had known in her youth. What she failed to grasp, I think, is that it would have happened regardless of whether Pierre Trudeau had been there or not. It was inevitable.

I remember the old Canada...and I miss it too...but it was not to last. The decline of Great Britain's influence in the world, the rising dominance of the USA and American mass media, the flood of new immigration into Canada's big cities from the Third World, the changing demographic that resulted from that, and the rise of Quebec Francophone nationalism.............all of that would have happened whether or not Pierre Trudeau had ever become prime minister of Canada.

She figures it was his fault. ;-) This is giving the man way more power than any one man could ever have had, in my opinion.