He said … ''Without Trudeau, the country might indeed have come a lot closer to a split,'' he said, speaking of the Prime Minister's efforts to keep the country together despite the separatist campaigns of the Quebec Government of Premier Rene Levesque.Miss Campagnola also paid tribute to Mr. Trudeau's leadership, citing in particular the passage of the language act that established French as an equal official language with English in government operations throughout Canada, and the transformation of the Canadian Constitution into solely a Canadian document, making the country in juridical terms independent of Britain.The Liberal Party has been trailing the opposition in popularity for the last two years as the Canadian economy has foundered, with unemployment running at around 13 percent and budget deficits proportionately larger than those in the United States. Now he’s got to run for re-election with not one but two millstones around his neck — the pipeline and his boss.If the Liberals’ core values mean as much to them as they evidently do to Wilson-Raybould and Philpott, they must also think about how to save their party. The tipping point for Trudeau’s brand has now happened and the applause he got for every goofy thing he did in the past is now a liability. Trudeau, 64 years old, whose fondness for the dramatic gesture has been as characteristic of him as the red rose he habitually wears in his lapel, made his announcement during a paralyzing snowstorm and while Parliament was in recess. Ivan Head and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada’s Foreign Policy, 1968-1984 (1995). One misstep, and either guy would look like just another politician, dimples or beard notwithstanding.Justin Trudeau could conceivably make a comeback as his dad did in 1980 after Joe Clark stupidly lost a confidence vote and triggered a new election. 'One of Joys of My Life'In his letter to Miss Campagnola, Mr. Trudeau said he had decided to resign as party leader, meaning also a decision to step down as head of government. Pierre Trudeau was born on October 18, 1919, and raised in the wealthy Montreal suburb of Outremont. Wilson-Raybould and Philpott have inflicted grievous wounds, and more may come at any moment. But Pierre Trudeau was an extraordinary politician, brilliant within his limits. Feb. 25: Why should Trudeau resign and other letters to the editor. In every move I made at the time, uppermost in my mind was the fact that Pierre Trudeau had announced his resignation as leader of the Liberal party. ''I wish to inform you of my decision to resign from the leadership of the Liberal Party,'' he wrote. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/03/05/Trudeau-Resignation-Only-Hope But he did not do so in any public appearance.He communicated his decision in a hand-delivered letter this morning to Iona Campagnola, president of his Liberal Party. Is it worth hanging in for the hope of re-election in October as part of a Liberal rump returned to third-party status? He has one chance to save the Liberal party, by putting it in the hands of the women who stood their ground.
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He said it was ''the appropriate time for someone else to assume this challenge.''Mr. But the likeliest outcome in October will be a Conservative return to power with an NDP and Green opposition. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. They kept the faith during the Harper years. ''He told us he had a long walk in the blizzard last night,'' Mr. Hudon said.