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The Truth About Trudeau: His disastrous record laid out for all to see
Pierre Trudeau’s many detractors — a group that remains large in number and fervent in its beliefs — won’t need to read The Truth About Trudeau, a new book that seeks to offset the friendly treatment Canada’s 15th prime minister has enjoyed from biographers and historians.
New book is a fuddle-duddle-seeking missile aimed at shattering the enduring Trudeau myth
Today, nearly 30 years after he left office, and 13 years after his death, the Trudeau mystique endures in many quarters. An annual Angus Reid opinion poll consistently ranks him as the best prime minister Canada has had since 1968, and his son Justin’s rapid rise to the leadership of the Liberal party was propelled in part by members’ nostalgia for the earlier Trudeau era.
But for Bob Plamondon, the bloom came off the rose soon after that 1980 election. “Everything he was doing, I opposed,” he said. By 1984, he was a young accountant volunteering for a Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa, and in 1988 he ran for the Tories. He lost but went on to become a successful policy consultant and writer.
Tired of seeing Pierre Trudeau elevated to the level of an icon worthy of worship, Mr. Plamondon has written what amounts to a fuddle-duddle-seeking missile aimed at shattering the Trudeau myth.
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They’ve been making the same argument for years, perennially frustrated that other Canadians couldn’t see what to them was self-evident: That the prime ministerial years of Pierre Trudeau were a disaster for Canada from which we are still trying to recover.
