Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC , byl patnáctým kanadským ministerským předsedou od 20. dubna 1968 do 4. června 1979, a poté od 3. března 1980 do 30. června 1984. Byl členem Liberální strany Kanady a prvním kanadským ministerským předsedou narozeným ve 20. století.
Pierre Trudeau byl charizmatickou postavou, jež – od pozdních 60. let až do poloviny let osmdesátých – dominovala kanadské politické scéně a vyvolávala vášnivé reakce. „Jeho odkaz s námi zůstává i nadále,“ napsali Trudeauovi životopisci Christina McCall a Stephen Clarkson v roce 1990. Obdivovatelé vyzdvihují sílu Trudeauova intelektu a přiznávají mu politickou prozíravost v procesu zachování národní jednoty. Rovněž oceňují jeho práci na zakotvení Kanadské listiny základních práv a svobod do kanadské ústavy. Kritické hlasy pak Trudeaua obviňují z chabé úrovně administrativních praktik, arogance a nedostatku porozumění pro potřeby území Kanady mimo Québec. Nesporným faktem však zůstává, že se Pierre Trudeau stal jedinečnou osobností, jež se zasloužila o obnovu Kanady a kanadského postavení ve světě.
Trudeau stál v čele kanadské vlády v jednom z nejbouřlivějších období v historii země a často se stával zdrojem kontroverzí. Byl znám okázalým způsobem života, na veřejnosti se ukazoval s celebritami, čas od času se dostavil v sandálech do Dolní sněmovny, kde byl dokonce při jiné příležitosti obviněn z nevhodného chování během právě probíhající debaty. Jedním z jeho nejkontroverznějších faux pas bylo vystřihnutí piruety přímo za zády královny Alžběty II.
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„Stát nemá místo v ložnicích národa.“
Originál: (en) The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.
Zdroj: [Munroe, Susan, Pierre Trudeau Dies at 80, canadaonline.about.com, 2014-04-06, http://canadaonline.about.com/od/trudeaudeath/a/trudeaudies.htm]
“A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.”
Speech to the Ukrainian - Canadian Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba (9 October 1971)
Kontext: There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
“I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.”
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 258
Memoirs (1993)
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 178
Memoirs (1993)
Kontext: Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. I didn't like to slap backs or other parts of the anatomy. I liked hecklers, because they brought my speeches alive. I liked supporters, because they looked happy. And I really enjoyed mingling with people, if there wasn't too much of it.
“Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.”
Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 83
Memoirs (1993)
Kontext: What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
A man must say what he believes clearly, without dogma, and without guile.
Statement during the 1968 election campaign, as quoted in party literature. "Pierre Elliott Trudeau for Canada", 1968 leaflet http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau-for-Canada-1968-Leaflet-Bill-Vander-Zalm-Liberal-Party-BC/322004097304?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D9020a37aa0b24dd68f1d3f5025b50b52%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D381542319016
“The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.”
Speech from the Throne, House of Commons (12 September 1968)
Kontext: The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. While perhaps more difficult to formulate for groups than for individuals, even the members of majorities — political, religious, linguistic or economic — must know what it is to suffer injustice. My Government is deeply concerned to provide and to ensure increased justice, dignity and recognition to the individual, particularly in an age which is characterized by large governments, industrial automation, social regimentation and old-fashioned laws. A great deal has been accomplished in recent years to make the Canadian society more just in terms of income distribution and security against the vicissitudes of life.
“A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.”
Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366
Memoirs (1993)
Kontext: A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
“The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers.”
Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 21
Memoirs (1993)
Kontext: The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.
Statement to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as quoted in Problems of Journalism (1966) by the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Unsourced variant : "Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens — it is an imposition on the state."
Varianta: Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
This quote from 1981 appears on the poster of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1981)[citation needed]
“I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.”
Part 2, 1968 - 1974 Power And Responsibility, p. 107
Memoirs (1993)
Kontext: When I had been appointed to the Cabinet in 1967, I had been struck by the amateurism that reigned in the upper echelons of the federal government.
“I am trying to put Quebec in its place — and the place of Quebec is in Canada”
Speech on the Quebec separatist movement (25 June 1968), exact quote take from footage as seen in "Pierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirs" (27 Jan 2009), Disk 2, 24:05; only the bolded portion has usually been quoted in print, as quoted in Winnipeg Free Press (25 June 1968), and in "Flamboyant former Canadian leader Pierre Trudeau dies" at CNN (28 September 2000) https://listserv.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=parkinsn;RzFzCg;20000929032301%2B0200d
Kontext: Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place — and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
"Exhaustion and Fulfillment : The Ascetic in a Canoe" (1944) http://www.canoe.ca/che-mun/102trudeau.html <!-- republished in Trudeau: PM, Patriot, Paddler -->
Kontext: What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.
Testifying before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord (1988-03-30)
Statement to the press, referencing "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more", during his resignation speech (21 November 1979) http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1979-trudeau-steps-down-as-liberal-leader
“Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.”
Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 39
Memoirs (1993)
As a CCF member taking issue with the federal Liberal Party. Cite libre (April 1963)
“I don't know if the member of Prince Edward-Hastings thinks he's on camera, but he's not.”
Comment in the House of Commons in response to the heckling of George Hees, October 17, 1977 (this particular Question Period was the first to be televised, prompting Trudeau's remark. In actuality, John Raymond Ellis was the Prince Edward-Hastings MP.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2kRv0kW5Oc#t=6m51s
“There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.”
L'État n'a pas d'affaires dans les chambres à coucher de la nation.
Comment in the Canadian House of Commons on the decriminalization of homosexuality (22 December 1967)[citation needed]
Although usually attributed solely to Trudeau, the quote is a paraphrase by him from an editorial that appeared in the Globe and Mail on December 12, 1967 (page 61) which read in part: "Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation."
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 189
Memoirs (1993)
“I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.”
Part 2, 1968 - 1974 Power And Responsibility, p. 122
Memoirs (1993)
As quoted in Prime Ministers (2000) by Rennay Craats
“People are more interested in ideas than dress.”
As quoted in "Pierre Elliott Trudeau" profile in The Greatest Canadian at CBC
Part 4, 1979 - 1984 "Welcome to the 1980's", p. 322
Memoirs (1993)
Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 46
Memoirs (1993)
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 216
Memoirs (1993)
Comment in the House of Commons in response to an MP heckling his response in Question Period, House of Commons Debates - Official Report - Second Session - Thirtienth Parliament - Volume V, 1977 - Page 5272 (4 May 1977)
Recounting a "walk in the snow" at a news conference announcing his resignation (29 February 1984)[citation needed]
