from impacting the Canadian Constitution
to championing multiculturalism and
bilingualism in Canada one of Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau s main
goals was to bring the country together
hi I’m Alex leduc and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’re speaking with
biographer John English to learn more
about how Trudeau United the country
why was Trudeau so determined to give
Canada its own constitution and charter
and how did he feel about that legacy in
later years when he first came into
politics he didn’t want to open it up
but then it was opened up by the 67-68
and he made his name as Minister of
Justice dealing with the demands from
Daniel Johnson the Premier of Quebec for
equality or independence but once it was
open then you have to come to some sort
of bargain bargain about distribution of
powers and above all how you amend the
Constitution within Canada so that was a
real accomplishment for him we better
grab this signature these this paper and
run before anybody changes his mind
let’s say on state there’s only on the
Charter of Rights he had always talked
about the Charter of Rights it’s in the
documents he produced in the 60s for the
labor movement here he brought it
forward at Victoria and 1970-71 where
there was a famous discussion where go
back government withdrew and Lehman fell
apart so he came to believe maybe
because of the war Measures Act that
individual citizens should be guaranteed
rights that are in a label and secondly
that that by defining Canadians through
a common allegiance to a charter with
Rights and Freedoms that to be a better
sense of nation of what a nation was and
so he would see that as his most
significant achievement you want this
Charter modified or otherwise or do not
want a charter and the people of Canada
would decide if they want to charter and
mr. Levesque agreed with that tell us
about the effect he had on bilingualism
and multiculturalism in Canada that’s
complicated he was part of the response
of the federal government to the so
called Quebec crisis in the 1960s he
came to Ottawa to work on it come on out
it’s about Cardona sake
the padartha okay go babe we’re very
optimistic about it so we think that
things are going well we think that the
trend toward separation in Quebec has
been reversed
he had skepticism both the bilingualism
of by
culturalism commission he didn’t like
some of their solutions but as things
move forward he was strongly committed
to bilingualism in the federal
government he realized by the later part
of the 60s and early 70s that it was a
tough political sell and he moved to
multiculturalism addicted with three
main reasons one was politically you
know Ukrainians were upset they were
being left out where do they fit where
the German Canadians and other groups
the second reason was that he needed to
respond to the change in Canada at the
time and to immigration and and if
immigrants are coming in where do they
fit in this there were crises in the
schools and Quebec relating to language
but they’re also difficulties and cities
too and the third thing is he personally
had this anti-nationalist notion that
the rest of the world is just so
fascinating to me to Canadians of many
origins which are here in Montreal and I
think this is a good thing and to
broaden their horizons and to realize
that the world is really open to
everyone
to championing multiculturalism and
bilingualism in Canada one of Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau s main
goals was to bring the country together
hi I’m Alex leduc and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’re speaking with
biographer John English to learn more
about how Trudeau United the country
why was Trudeau so determined to give
Canada its own constitution and charter
and how did he feel about that legacy in
later years when he first came into
politics he didn’t want to open it up
but then it was opened up by the 67-68
and he made his name as Minister of
Justice dealing with the demands from
Daniel Johnson the Premier of Quebec for
equality or independence but once it was
open then you have to come to some sort
of bargain bargain about distribution of
powers and above all how you amend the
Constitution within Canada so that was a
real accomplishment for him we better
grab this signature these this paper and
run before anybody changes his mind
let’s say on state there’s only on the
Charter of Rights he had always talked
about the Charter of Rights it’s in the
documents he produced in the 60s for the
labor movement here he brought it
forward at Victoria and 1970-71 where
there was a famous discussion where go
back government withdrew and Lehman fell
apart so he came to believe maybe
because of the war Measures Act that
individual citizens should be guaranteed
rights that are in a label and secondly
that that by defining Canadians through
a common allegiance to a charter with
Rights and Freedoms that to be a better
sense of nation of what a nation was and
so he would see that as his most
significant achievement you want this
Charter modified or otherwise or do not
want a charter and the people of Canada
would decide if they want to charter and
mr. Levesque agreed with that tell us
about the effect he had on bilingualism
and multiculturalism in Canada that’s
complicated he was part of the response
of the federal government to the so
called Quebec crisis in the 1960s he
came to Ottawa to work on it come on out
it’s about Cardona sake
the padartha okay go babe we’re very
optimistic about it so we think that
things are going well we think that the
trend toward separation in Quebec has
been reversed
he had skepticism both the bilingualism
of by
culturalism commission he didn’t like
some of their solutions but as things
move forward he was strongly committed
to bilingualism in the federal
government he realized by the later part
of the 60s and early 70s that it was a
tough political sell and he moved to
multiculturalism addicted with three
main reasons one was politically you
know Ukrainians were upset they were
being left out where do they fit where
the German Canadians and other groups
the second reason was that he needed to
respond to the change in Canada at the
time and to immigration and and if
immigrants are coming in where do they
fit in this there were crises in the
schools and Quebec relating to language
but they’re also difficulties and cities
too and the third thing is he personally
had this anti-nationalist notion that
the rest of the world is just so
fascinating to me to Canadians of many
origins which are here in Montreal and I
think this is a good thing and to
broaden their horizons and to realize
that the world is really open to
everyone
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