@@EmperorTigerstar thank you my friend! I was planning on doing a video about Pierre Elliott Trudeau at some point as well, but focusing on different aspects of his prime ministership than you did.
@Sol Milller Alberta's issue was pretty simple, they were prevented from charging as much for their oil when selling it to the rest of Canada. It hurt the Alberta oil industry. I have no clue what you're on about, this has nothing to do with Jews, communists, Saudis, or language
I can't believe you didn't mention his controversial, failed, yet very important White Paper Policy, where he wanted to fully integrate (assimilate) First Nations into Western society. You could easily make a whole episode on that.
@@holdenennis It wasn't really. It was mostly aimed to make them the same as all other Canadian systems under the law as they are still to this day technically bound to different laws than other Canadian (a blatant oversimplification but it's kinda complicated to explain the treaty system). It wasn't aimed to force-assimilate them into Canadian society, but instead to treat all Canadian citizens (i.e. both native and non-native) the same under the law. Many argued that would result in the loss of their cultures and the government didn't even consult with major First Nations tribes so it was not well handled by the government and ticked a lot of people off. It's a complicated topic.
@@GreenMonkeyFire I agree with that, they should not be Europeanized on their own land, they should get to keep their unique culture, way of life, and reservations even if that complicates the law somewhat.
“The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change” - John A. Macdonald “It’s inconceivable … for one section of the society to have a treaty with the other section of the society. We must be all equal under the law and we must not sign treaties among ourselves…. I don’t think that we should encourage Indians to feel these treaties should last forever within Canada….They should become Canadians as all other Canadians.” - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1969)
@@holdenennis Thats exactly what First Nations claimed P. Trudeau was attempting to do. P. Trudeau wanted to eliminate the Treaties that assert Indigenous sovereignty and abolish any special privileges that any First Nations may have.
This is going to bump his son’s poll numbers than it already has. Trudeauism is stability to Canada, whether the Tories like it or not. The pragmatism passed down will keep the country ahead.
I grew up in the 1970s and early 80s. I was 17 years old when Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister (for the second and final time), and he was the only Prime Minister (other than Joe Clark) that I knew of. I remember well the 1980 election. I was 14 at the time, and it's the first election where I paid attention to the issues. It was one of Canada's only Winter elections (traditionally we only hold elections in the Spring or Fall). As you correctly stated, it was triggered by the Clark Government's failure to pass their budget. They had a minority government, and could have had their budget passed if they had obtained the support of the small right-wing Créditiste party from Québec, but for some reason they failed. The budget was unpopular in Ontario because it meant that people who heat their homes with oil would have had to pay more. You have to understand that this was during the 1970s oil crisis, and oil prices in Canada had been kept artificially low, and most Canadian oil comes from Alberta, which is where Joe Clark came from and which was the stronghold of the Progressive-Conservative Party. So in the budget I think they lifted price controls on oil, which made Joe Clark's political base in Alberta happy, but he forgot that Ontario and Quebec have far more votes than does Alberta, and that at the time most people still heated with oil, and that the election was taking place in the winter. So the PCs basically lost that election because people were angry at the prospect of their winter heating bills going up.
@@stevethepikmin Probably. I don't remember the details, except that the effect was that people were going to have to pay more for heating oil and gasoline .
I’m a 14 year old Canadian, and we are currently having an election, and it is the first time I am paying attention to the issues at hand, but of a coincidence eh? Edit: also in both situations a party led by a Trudeau called the election. Edit 2: and they both got thing thrown at them! Are they the exact same? Lol
@@jordanmtb3315 Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of politics. Pierre Trudeau had to call an election in 1979 because the previous election was in 1974 and at the time you could not have more than 5 years between elections. He lost to Joe Clark and the Conservatives, but they only obtained a minority government, and they were forced to call an election after their budget was defeated.
I was in grade school when Pierre was elected. None of us cared about politics except we knew we were forced to learn French for 15 minutes a day, three time per week. I had finished university and was working when Pierre, still PM, walked right through the Canadian Constitution and invoked the National Energy Program. I saw friends lose their jobs and their homes. Pierre did a lot to divide Canada and both the First Nations and Western Canada were treated with disdain. Many considered him to be a horrible Prime Minister, that was until his son Justin became PM and easily took over that title. The two worst things to happen to Canadian politics were Pierre and Justin Trudeau.
Boo hoo. Bilingualism helped keep Canada together. Alberta's resources and economy should be shared with the rest of Canada. PET's job was to look after Canada as a whole. Your gross simplification of PET's complex legacy is a testament to your own ignorance.
@@Josh-cw8by why should Alberta’s resources and economy be shared with the rest of Canada, no one else shares their resources or economy, everybody sells for the best dollar they can get. You can keep your ‘ignorance’ comments to yourself self, it doesn’t look good for you.
Very good vidéo, but an important thing not mentionned : the 1982 constitution was adopted in Québec's back and it was a betrayal of a promise made by Trudeau during the 1980 referendum. To this day, Québec never signed this constitution.
The story is actually pretty ridiculous, if I remember it right it was because Quebec's premier René Lévesque couldn't agree on the terms so they signed the constitution while Lévesque was sleeping in his hotel room. Today we call it 《la nuit des longs couteaux》or "the night of the long knifes"
@@vladquebec c'est dommage que malgré les évènements comme celui-ci, beaucoup de québécois croient toujours que l'intérêt du Québec et du reste du Canada sont compactible. Tant qu'on ne sera pas un pays indépendant, le gouvernement canadian va nous fourrer.
@@rickyboii5971 really? You call it night of the long knifes? Here in germany the term has a very different meaning... It is the night where Hitler secured his leadership of the NSDAP in 1934 by literally killing or just threatening all of his rivals in the party.
Social Studies teachers in Canada literally spend half the class time rambling about Canadian History but don't even mention Pierre except when talking about the charter of rights and freedoms. This video is much needed
Most of the time Social studies teachers will rarely mention other history apart from some lame indigenous history and some projects way in the past. Wasn’t until high school until you learn about Canada’s involvement in wars which to me is one of the most important if not the most important thing to talk about in Canadian history.
@@theshowman22 yeah even in Highschool tho the teachers seam to treat it like a class they get stuck with. Also I believe they focus way too much on more modern history. Not sure if it was the same for you but my class started at ww1 and ended after the Cuban missile crisis
@@theshowman22 Completely agree. Apart from mentioning Christopher Columbus once Indeginous stories are the ONLY thing they talk about and it’s not until high school that they talk about Canada’s involvement in other history or even mention other history at all
17:05 "after consulting leaders of every province" and "some disagreement in Quebec" is a bit misleading. The constitution was made and signed without Quebec's approval and to this day Quebec still didn't sign it and is a big stab to Canada's unity.
@@generalsalami8875Quebec makes up 1/3 of Canadas population, is a major staple of Canadian history, and would make for some EXTREMELY awkward geography if it did seperate. Also, in modern day Quebec, most people are against separation. They hosted multiple referendums (2?) and lost both times.
As a proud Canadian and history enthusiast I'm ashamed of how little I know about this stuff. Anyone know of any good Canadian political history sources? Like I could watch videos like this all day.
That's stuff we learn in french-language History classes in Québec, but english-language History classes across the Federation are more likely to _conveniently_ omit bits of québec-centric canadian History that eventually led to independance debates, etc.
I'm not Canadian , only lived in Montreal for a short time (before "the internets" were popular, and when aids was still raging). Just watch him… in all those TH-cam short movies. Get the gist of why he was so populär, deservedly.
Finding about this man as a fresh-off the boat temporary resident was an interesting venture. "Just watch me." is one of the most badass political quotes ever made. The whole return of the Constitution business confused the hell out of me though.
@cablemanization that seems to be the same bullshit comment every socialist and commie sympathizer loves throwing out when their idols are described precisely as they are. I know exactly what a socialist is, it is you who is mistaken as to what it is, and PET explicitly stated on many occasions he would turn this country into a purely socialist society if he had the power to do so, one in which the government controls everything. He and his son attempted to skirt democratic processes and give the federal government much more power during their tenures, which isn't up for debate. He loved fraternizing with communist dictators as well and once proclaimed himself a communist in front of a group of ambassadors while traveling in the USSR. Trudeau Jr wrote a glowing eulogy for Fidel Castro, a mass murderer, on the PMO website, calling him one of the greatest leaders of all time and saying he served his people for 60 years. Yes he served them all right, as a dictator whose power was absolute and could not be contested. Anyone who did so was thrown in jail or killed while the majority of Cubans are thin as rakes from hunger, which I have seen firsthand. This is all very easy information to find, you don't have to continue being brainwashed by our far-left state funded media and public education institutions that openly romanticize all socialist and Marxist strains of thought
@cablemanization there is barely any difference and both frequently ally with each other and sing each other's praises. All modern socialists think Marx was a god even though he called for the extermination of Jews like Hitler, someone whom they revile but share much in common apparently. They both want the government to control the means of production, which will always result in dictatorship and power being dispersed among very few. Listen it isn't my fault you have been severely brainwashed since birth and aren't smart enough to overcome this. PET was educated at the London School of Economics, an institution founded by an EXPLICITLY SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, the Fabian Society, which is cited as an immense influence on the Labour Party by its own members (another supposedly non-socialist entity I guess in your opinion). What more proof do you need?
@cablemanization lmao yeah so that's why every self proclaimed socialist I ever met simps for Marx, and defends the USSR and Mao, because they have absolutely no parallels whatsoever! Great job ignoring the rest of my argument though that you simply cannot refute
@PatchesRips Thanks! Though what really did confuse me was the Quebec premier claiming he was backstabbed by the other provincial premiers since he was pretty much against it and he thought the others were onboard with him before they chamged their minds.
@@peepeepoopyhead510 peepee poopyhead yes, socialism and communism is not the same thing, its like saying fascism and nationalism is the same thing, do you understand politics ?
After Mulroney changed the healthcare system by leaving it to the provinces and selling off Petro Canada he introduced the GST. The GST replaced the amount of money Petro Canada was pouring (no pun intended) into the government account. He was tossed out of office with only one Conservative seat remaining in the House of Commons.
Conway didn't make that up. Section 91,92 & 93 of the constitution clearly outline the division of powers and authority. Healthcare and education were always delineated to provincial authority. I have a Bachelor's in Public Administration. So we are speaking from some authority.
thanks for covering modern canadian history :)! i rarely see canadian history outside of boring educational videos/news clips, or events from before the second world war.
hi, I really wanted you to know that im excited for the indigenous-centered north america video you previewed a while ago. i appreciate you covering that topic in particular, and am very much looking forward to it. xx
you forgot the kitchen's meeting or how its called in Quebec the night of the long knives, the main cause of the second referandom's resaults for Quebec's independence
I'd love for you to make a video on Einar Gerhardsen, Norway's longest ruling prime minister and seen by many as the father of Norway, Ruling between 1945-1969
@@matheusgu or what you gonna get you're people kind and birthing persons to unleash a sheseisson on us lmao his wife is known as one of the biggest garden tools ever
I still find it creepy that he met Justins mom when she was 18 (he was 48) and no one really talks about how weird that is. He divorced her after he was done being prime minister because their marriage broke apart, she was forced to raise 2 children on her own effectively while in her 20s, he was busy governing in the middle of Canada's biggest constitutional crisis. Its understandable why she got bipolar disorder. As a person he was actually a scumbag that if it were just some random guy instead of Prime Minister, people would judge differently.
I don't think stress can give bipolar disorder, but it probably exacerbated it. For the record, Charles Dickens was both an even worse person and far more beloved. 😒
I mean i don't think the last point makes much sense, like of course if he wer just a gut instead of the leader of an entire country's government he'd be judged differently, you can say that about any countries world leader.
@@VolcardoReviewer, He was a Communist and a Draft Dodger, loved Cuba and Castro, hated the USA . Responsible for the Multicultural immigration mess we have today.
@@VolcardoReviewer I’d say he’s arguably the worst, maybe only slightly better than his traitorous son, but that’s it. He completely screwed Alberta, he screwed Air Canada, his moronic policies some of the worst inflation and highest interest rates in Canadian history, he was in bed with Fidel Castro during the Cold War, him and Crétien built an astonishingly high number of residential schools, oh and there was also that infamous incident where he gave the finger to albertan protesters after he passed the NEP and essentially stole their economy from them.
I am a senior and suffered through both of these idiots. The son raised in a multi term PM’s home had the best schools on Ottawa, hobnobbed with the Ottawa elite, travelled the world in luxury and still was insensitive enough to repeatedly wear blackface well into adulthood. They both crippled Canada with record debts and caused great division in the country but were our shallow image focused media darlings.
I was born when he'd been in office a couple of years, in last year middle school when he left. I've hated him ever since and spit on his memory. But he was a titan, an intellectual wildly superior to his son in every way, a statesman even, and the title is right. He had a vision, and he set things in motion never to be resolved. He felt that he had to destroy the nationalism of French Canada, to do that he had to destroy what was left of the nationalism of English Canada, and although I think he had a sort of new Canadian nationalism in mind, it didn't quite entirely work that way.
As a leader of a country and government, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. May as well leave a legacy behind. Unlike any of our other PM's, Trudeau's legacy, charisma and intellect will stay with Canadians till the end. Can't say the same for our many other PM's that's for sure regardless of their performance.
Strange how his succesful attempt at sabotaging the Meech Lake Accords and his exceptionnaly condescendant view on Quebec culture and identity (he just wanted to see a centuries-old nation die altogether and speak, in his words, "proper french") were not mentionned....J.J. will be happy.
@@ultrascarlet5275 I do, and unlike Canada I have an actual distinct culture and legacy of many men and women to celebrate and preserve like those in Europe and Asia.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I don't want anything to do with that US-clone of a country, Quebec is NOT Canada just like Tibet is NOT China. The difference between Canada and Quebec is way more deep, more rich and more historically grounded than you make it sound to be. And unlike the "South of US" absence of a nation worth celebrating, it would actually be a good thing for the world and the people living here for Quebec to be independant : a noble nation centered around the values of humanism and universalism, valuing history and idealism over postmodernism and materialism. A nation that anyone can join in, that anyone in the world can be a part of and join, free from religious obscurantism and racialism. The US south on the other hand...yikes to say the least.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 But no, by all means, continue to legitimize imperialism and taking away the right of peoples to lead themselves as stated in the United Nations chart.
I lived in Canada as a child during the Mulroney years, and I vaguely remember the collapse of the Progressive Conservative government, however aside from fuddle duddle I really didn't know much about Trudeau - even though we learned about the Constitution in class, I don't quite remember if we were taught that it was Trudeau. Thank you for doing this.
I like both Prime Minister Trudeau. Both of them are greatest Prime Minister in Canada history and world history. Former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau made a morden Canada, He made Canada economy 20% bigger than it was before, labour income is up 45%,Companies profits more than 17%...PM Trudeau has entered Canada into a booming economy for the first time since 2005, he cut poverty rate half.Richest Canadians wealth increased 50 %after pandemic...
I'd argue that Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Trudeau make a trifecta of sorts of the PMs who made modern Canada. They are all incredibly important. Pierre Trudeau saved Canada in 1970, 1980, 1984 and 1992. He couldn't have had that ability were it not for the contractions of the other two.
Great video, very interesting, and loads of information. Small criticism the music was really loud throughout it. Especially the song with singing and became distracting because your voice in comparison was only slightly louder. Would be grateful if the music could be lower volume. Thanks and keep it up!
Terrible man. From residential schools to bankrupting farmers and then giving the Canadians he served the middle finger. We could have done much better in our past than him.
He was 20 when WW2 started and claimed to be a separatist to avoid actually going? Damn I didn’t know that. Funny how he was so willing to use the military in office and didn’t mind Cuba at all.
@@watsonroadster3707 Yeah the part of the country that is actually economically important, as opposed to parasite country in the east and vancouver lmao.
The first PM to double the national debt. Then is son did the same thing with an absolutely staggering amount of money. Great job liberal voters, your kids will thank you !
Great video, people complaining of his policy and yet people lived a bit better than today, new emigrants were able to raise and feed a family on only one income and somehow manage a car as well without help from the government
I remember the senior Trudeau era as a high unemployment era in Atlantic Canada. I remember beating the streets looking for work and high inflation, inflation just like now in 2024! Overall I'm disappointed in both Trudeau eras and my pension is small because the Liberals could not improve the economy if their lives depended on it.
6:45 Yes this is the popular narrative and image about Pierre Trudeau . However , the reality is quite different . For example , Pierre Trudeau did not support Public Health Care Payments for Canada's Public Health Care used to be split 50 - 50 between the federal government and Provinces , but then Trudeau quietly decoupled this arrangement . The Provinces now pay about 80% of the health care costs in Canada . Trudeau wanted a more federalist approach because he wanted more power over the Provinces . .
The Statute of Westminster (1931) was a sort of Schrödinger's Cat of Independence. Under the terms of the statute, the British Parliament could not legislate for Canada without the assent of the Canadian government. That is, no act of the British Parliament applied to Canada unless Canada agreed to it. At the same time, if Canada requested to change its Constitutional arrangement vis a vis the UK, the British Parliament was obliged to put any requested changes up for a vote. This is known as the "Request and Assent" provisions. As a consequence of Request provision, Canadian criminal cases could no longer be appealed to British courts starting in 1935 after the Canadian government proposed this change. The Supreme Court of Canada became the highest court of appeal in Canada in criminal cases. Under the Assent provision, the British declaration of war on Germany in 1939 did not apply to Canada. The government of Canada supported war with Germany, however, and waited one week to make its own separate declaration. The Request and Assent provisions were applied several times in later years. The 1982 Constitution Act ended this practice, which had long become a nuisance of formality. Pierre Trudeau sought the approval of all provinces in doing this, even if legally he did not need to. His idea was that such a big change was similar to the founding of the Dominion in 1867. Only Quebec failed to sign on. The Constitutional amendment formula propose, and adopted, require 2/3rds of the provinces representing at least 50% of the population to agree. This was achieved. Adding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms at the same time was the real change of that year, and it was Pierre Trudeau's greatest accomplishment that ripples on to today.
Far to complicated a figure to be covered in one episode. He had an entire "academic" journal where he foretold of the post-nationalist era. One will be able to find Justin use such language today when describing the country.
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I always enjoy when you do videos about or involving Canada
Are you a Canuck?
@@ericfrehlich8800 Yes
can you turn down the music?
Good job doing a video on an important figure from Canadian history. I think it's great when people take an interest in Canadian history and politics.
Oh yeah I knew J. J. wouldn't miss this
We've been expecting you... for the few hours this video was uploaded
Called it!
Thanks for watching! I love your videos! :D
@@EmperorTigerstar thank you my friend! I was planning on doing a video about Pierre Elliott Trudeau at some point as well, but focusing on different aspects of his prime ministership than you did.
"While Petro-Canada was somewhat unpopular in most of Alberta,"
Holy, that is a heck of an understatement.
@Sol Milller Alberta's issue was pretty simple, they were prevented from charging as much for their oil when selling it to the rest of Canada. It hurt the Alberta oil industry. I have no clue what you're on about, this has nothing to do with Jews, communists, Saudis, or language
Well that's a new pronunciation of "Keynesian."
My ears hurt from that.
I missed that, what's the timestamp?
@emperortigerstar: I believe Keynesian is pronounced 2 main ways “cain see an” or “keen see an”. Just trying to help. Great video dude!
That part reminds me why I never watch this guy's videos when Cody links them. They're just not up to snuff.
timestamp?
I can't believe you didn't mention his controversial, failed, yet very important White Paper Policy, where he wanted to fully integrate (assimilate) First Nations into Western society. You could easily make a whole episode on that.
That sounds like ethnic cleansing.
@@holdenennis It wasn't really. It was mostly aimed to make them the same as all other Canadian systems under the law as they are still to this day technically bound to different laws than other Canadian (a blatant oversimplification but it's kinda complicated to explain the treaty system). It wasn't aimed to force-assimilate them into Canadian society, but instead to treat all Canadian citizens (i.e. both native and non-native) the same under the law. Many argued that would result in the loss of their cultures and the government didn't even consult with major First Nations tribes so it was not well handled by the government and ticked a lot of people off. It's a complicated topic.
@@GreenMonkeyFire I agree with that, they should not be Europeanized on their own land, they should get to keep their unique culture, way of life, and reservations even if that complicates the law somewhat.
“The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change”
- John A. Macdonald
“It’s inconceivable … for one section of the society to have a treaty with the other section of the society. We must be all equal under the law and we must not sign treaties among ourselves…. I don’t think that we should encourage Indians to feel these treaties should last forever within Canada….They should become Canadians as all other Canadians.” - Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1969)
@@holdenennis Thats exactly what First Nations claimed P. Trudeau was attempting to do. P. Trudeau wanted to eliminate the Treaties that assert Indigenous sovereignty and abolish any special privileges that any First Nations may have.
This is going to be controversial and I am not even an Canadian
We're about to channel our goose energy into this comment section
This is going to bump his son’s poll numbers than it already has. Trudeauism is stability to Canada, whether the Tories like it or not. The pragmatism passed down will keep the country ahead.
@@sethabdul7824 His prime ministership has raised the cost of living in the prairies, and guess who doesnt care about the prairies. The Liberals
@@sethabdul7824 Both Trudeaus are jokes and Jr is the worst prime minister Canada has ever had
@Yadav Aman :/ Are you serious?
Doesn't matter which one you bring up both are hated in Alberta.
Every Prairie province actually
@@ericfrehlich8800 thats the truth
Then again Alberta is Texas
I did not know that. He's Québec's nemesis for sure though.
Yes,I dont know why though he helped quebec so much during his run that I'dont understand.
I grew up in the 1970s and early 80s. I was 17 years old when Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister (for the second and final time), and he was the only Prime Minister (other than Joe Clark) that I knew of. I remember well the 1980 election. I was 14 at the time, and it's the first election where I paid attention to the issues. It was one of Canada's only Winter elections (traditionally we only hold elections in the Spring or Fall). As you correctly stated, it was triggered by the Clark Government's failure to pass their budget. They had a minority government, and could have had their budget passed if they had obtained the support of the small right-wing Créditiste party from Québec, but for some reason they failed. The budget was unpopular in Ontario because it meant that people who heat their homes with oil would have had to pay more. You have to understand that this was during the 1970s oil crisis, and oil prices in Canada had been kept artificially low, and most Canadian oil comes from Alberta, which is where Joe Clark came from and which was the stronghold of the Progressive-Conservative Party. So in the budget I think they lifted price controls on oil, which made Joe Clark's political base in Alberta happy, but he forgot that Ontario and Quebec have far more votes than does Alberta, and that at the time most people still heated with oil, and that the election was taking place in the winter. So the PCs basically lost that election because people were angry at the prospect of their winter heating bills going up.
I don’t think it was that he lifted price controls on oil, I think it was that he implemented an $0.18 per gallon gas tax.
@@stevethepikmin Probably. I don't remember the details, except that the effect was that people were going to have to pay more for heating oil and gasoline .
I’m a 14 year old Canadian, and we are currently having an election, and it is the first time I am paying attention to the issues at hand, but of a coincidence eh? Edit: also in both situations a party led by a Trudeau called the election. Edit 2: and they both got thing thrown at them! Are they the exact same? Lol
@@jordanmtb3315 Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of politics. Pierre Trudeau had to call an election in 1979 because the previous election was in 1974 and at the time you could not have more than 5 years between elections. He lost to Joe Clark and the Conservatives, but they only obtained a minority government, and they were forced to call an election after their budget was defeated.
@@Alex_Plante politics is weird, and always will be
Who's waiting for JJ to show up?
He's probably already hear with a disguise
Yes
@@MrExtraordinaire16 hes here
@@ImperatorTom like I said called it.
I was in grade school when Pierre was elected. None of us cared about politics except we knew we were forced to learn French for 15 minutes a day, three time per week. I had finished university and was working when Pierre, still PM, walked right through the Canadian Constitution and invoked the National Energy Program. I saw friends lose their jobs and their homes. Pierre did a lot to divide Canada and both the First Nations and Western Canada were treated with disdain. Many considered him to be a horrible Prime Minister, that was until his son Justin became PM and easily took over that title. The two worst things to happen to Canadian politics were Pierre and Justin Trudeau.
Boo hoo.
Bilingualism helped keep Canada together. Alberta's resources and economy should be shared with the rest of Canada. PET's job was to look after Canada as a whole.
Your gross simplification of PET's complex legacy is a testament to your own ignorance.
@@Josh-cw8by why should Alberta’s resources and economy be shared with the rest of Canada, no one else shares their resources or economy, everybody sells for the best dollar they can get. You can keep your ‘ignorance’ comments to yourself self, it doesn’t look good for you.
Very good vidéo, but an important thing not mentionned : the 1982 constitution was adopted in Québec's back and it was a betrayal of a promise made by Trudeau during the 1980 referendum. To this day, Québec never signed this constitution.
The story is actually pretty ridiculous, if I remember it right it was because Quebec's premier René Lévesque couldn't agree on the terms so they signed the constitution while Lévesque was sleeping in his hotel room. Today we call it 《la nuit des longs couteaux》or "the night of the long knifes"
@@rickyboii5971 Correct, thanks for confirming the name of the event.
@@vladquebec c'est dommage que malgré les évènements comme celui-ci, beaucoup de québécois croient toujours que l'intérêt du Québec et du reste du Canada sont compactible. Tant qu'on ne sera pas un pays indépendant, le gouvernement canadian va nous fourrer.
@@rickyboii5971 C’EST VRAI!
@@rickyboii5971 really? You call it night of the long knifes? Here in germany the term has a very different meaning... It is the night where Hitler secured his leadership of the NSDAP in 1934 by literally killing or just threatening all of his rivals in the party.
Social Studies teachers in Canada literally spend half the class time rambling about Canadian History but don't even mention Pierre except when talking about the charter of rights and freedoms. This video is much needed
Your social studies teacher actually ranted about history? Mine just ranted about random things that happened to her
@@oboonkero326 *rambled
Most of the time Social studies teachers will rarely mention other history apart from some lame indigenous history and some projects way in the past. Wasn’t until high school until you learn about Canada’s involvement in wars which to me is one of the most important if not the most important thing to talk about in Canadian history.
@@theshowman22 yeah even in Highschool tho the teachers seam to treat it like a class they get stuck with. Also I believe they focus way too much on more modern history. Not sure if it was the same for you but my class started at ww1 and ended after the Cuban missile crisis
@@theshowman22 Completely agree. Apart from mentioning Christopher Columbus once Indeginous stories are the ONLY thing they talk about and it’s not until high school that they talk about Canada’s involvement in other history or even mention other history at all
He convinced me separation was the only option for the West! Nothing has changed.
Saying he made modern Canada when talking about politics might not be considered a compliment
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I mean he’s responsible for healthcare which is like one of Canada’s biggest flexes
@@ShahStark Tommy Douglas is responsible for Canada's healthcare. He basically forced Trudeau Sr. Into accepting it.
@@ShahStark Yeah a good ol Prairie boy is responsible for that
Why not?
17:05 "after consulting leaders of every province" and "some disagreement in Quebec" is a bit misleading. The constitution was made and signed without Quebec's approval and to this day Quebec still didn't sign it and is a big stab to Canada's unity.
Why can't quebec just secede? It would be best for everyone.
Doesn't matter, Quebec is still subordinate to it.
@@generalsalami8875Quebec makes up 1/3 of Canadas population, is a major staple of Canadian history, and would make for some EXTREMELY awkward geography if it did seperate. Also, in modern day Quebec, most people are against separation. They hosted multiple referendums (2?) and lost both times.
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This animal was a corrupt person. He made it difficult for Alberta to prosper.
Le Québec aussi.
As a proud Canadian and history enthusiast I'm ashamed of how little I know about this stuff. Anyone know of any good Canadian political history sources? Like I could watch videos like this all day.
Canada: A people's history was a world class documentary. Covers all of the stuff in this video in detail.
That's stuff we learn in french-language History classes in Québec, but english-language History classes across the Federation are more likely to _conveniently_ omit bits of québec-centric canadian History that eventually led to independance debates, etc.
I'm not Canadian , only lived in Montreal for a short time (before "the internets" were popular, and when aids was still raging).
Just watch him… in all those TH-cam short movies. Get the gist of why he was so populär, deservedly.
Im extremely glad to be canadian!!
#REELECTJT #Trudeau2021
i'm glad but not really proud at the moment
My condolences
There's really not much to be proud of these days just saying
Canada sucks
Finding about this man as a fresh-off the boat temporary resident was an interesting venture. "Just watch me." is one of the most badass political quotes ever made. The whole return of the Constitution business confused the hell out of me though.
@cablemanization that seems to be the same bullshit comment every socialist and commie sympathizer loves throwing out when their idols are described precisely as they are. I know exactly what a socialist is, it is you who is mistaken as to what it is, and PET explicitly stated on many occasions he would turn this country into a purely socialist society if he had the power to do so, one in which the government controls everything. He and his son attempted to skirt democratic processes and give the federal government much more power during their tenures, which isn't up for debate. He loved fraternizing with communist dictators as well and once proclaimed himself a communist in front of a group of ambassadors while traveling in the USSR. Trudeau Jr wrote a glowing eulogy for Fidel Castro, a mass murderer, on the PMO website, calling him one of the greatest leaders of all time and saying he served his people for 60 years. Yes he served them all right, as a dictator whose power was absolute and could not be contested. Anyone who did so was thrown in jail or killed while the majority of Cubans are thin as rakes from hunger, which I have seen firsthand. This is all very easy information to find, you don't have to continue being brainwashed by our far-left state funded media and public education institutions that openly romanticize all socialist and Marxist strains of thought
@cablemanization there is barely any difference and both frequently ally with each other and sing each other's praises. All modern socialists think Marx was a god even though he called for the extermination of Jews like Hitler, someone whom they revile but share much in common apparently. They both want the government to control the means of production, which will always result in dictatorship and power being dispersed among very few. Listen it isn't my fault you have been severely brainwashed since birth and aren't smart enough to overcome this. PET was educated at the London School of Economics, an institution founded by an EXPLICITLY SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION, the Fabian Society, which is cited as an immense influence on the Labour Party by its own members (another supposedly non-socialist entity I guess in your opinion). What more proof do you need?
@cablemanization lmao yeah so that's why every self proclaimed socialist I ever met simps for Marx, and defends the USSR and Mao, because they have absolutely no parallels whatsoever! Great job ignoring the rest of my argument though that you simply cannot refute
@PatchesRips Thanks! Though what really did confuse me was the Quebec premier claiming he was backstabbed by the other provincial premiers since he was pretty much against it and he thought the others were onboard with him before they chamged their minds.
@@peepeepoopyhead510 peepee poopyhead yes, socialism and communism is not the same thing, its like saying fascism and nationalism is the same thing, do you understand politics ?
After Mulroney changed the healthcare system by leaving it to the provinces and selling off Petro Canada he introduced the GST. The GST replaced the amount of money Petro Canada was pouring (no pun intended) into the government account. He was tossed out of office with only one Conservative seat remaining in the House of Commons.
And the total collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Actually, Mulroney resigned, with Kim Campbell replacing him, and she called an election a few months later where the PCs won 2 seats.
@@conwaysmith9167 conservatives always pretend to know everything even though it's all wrong.
@@zeanamush an overwhelming majority to one seat is more than an embarassement
Conway didn't make that up. Section 91,92 & 93 of the constitution clearly outline the division of powers and authority. Healthcare and education were always delineated to provincial authority.
I have a Bachelor's in Public Administration. So we are speaking from some authority.
thanks for covering modern canadian history :)! i rarely see canadian history outside of boring educational videos/news clips, or events from before the second world war.
Let's go to the comments, to see what the experts thinks
Haha
This was very pleasant.
Great video! I haven't seen many people talk about canada or canadian politics despite the fact its so interesting. So good job!
Oh boy I can already see the chaos in the comments
What chaos? Im looking for chaos and I see nothing at all
great work, loved the video!
I wish you would have talked more about his involvement with the 60's scoop or his relationship with indigenous Canadians in general
of course you would
We have to hear the good and the bad about him
His legacy is very mixed. The movement to begin closing down the abusive residential schools began under him.
hi, I really wanted you to know that im excited for the indigenous-centered north america video you previewed a while ago. i appreciate you covering that topic in particular, and am very much looking forward to it. xx
Epic comment section
Red tribe good! Blue tribe bad!
Yeah lovely isn't it?
@@TheAmericanPrometheus It's a bit more complicated.
The man that was the beginning of the end of Canada!
Now do one on Tommy Douglas!
yep
The communist?😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@That90sShow You must be a Saskabertabama boot licker???
you forgot the kitchen's meeting or how its called in Quebec the night of the long knives, the main cause of the second referandom's resaults for Quebec's independence
I'd love for you to make a video on Einar Gerhardsen, Norway's longest ruling prime minister and seen by many as the father of Norway, Ruling between 1945-1969
Great video! Keep it up!
Such a great video! It deserves more views!
Well produced and covered.
Ah, yes, the father of Fidel Castro's son
Don't talk that way about him or his wife's son ever again
@@matheusgu salty much?
@@matheusgu or what you gonna get you're people kind and birthing persons to unleash a sheseisson on us lmao his wife is known as one of the biggest garden tools ever
Canada is still recovering…
I still find it creepy that he met Justins mom when she was 18 (he was 48) and no one really talks about how weird that is. He divorced her after he was done being prime minister because their marriage broke apart, she was forced to raise 2 children on her own effectively while in her 20s, he was busy governing in the middle of Canada's biggest constitutional crisis. Its understandable why she got bipolar disorder.
As a person he was actually a scumbag that if it were just some random guy instead of Prime Minister, people would judge differently.
Nailed it
He and his son are one in the same.
I don't think stress can give bipolar disorder, but it probably exacerbated it.
For the record, Charles Dickens was both an even worse person and far more beloved. 😒
I mean i don't think the last point makes much sense, like of course if he wer just a gut instead of the leader of an entire country's government he'd be judged differently, you can say that about any countries world leader.
He was born in 1919 you ignoramus. An older, successful man marrying a younger woman was commonplace.
fun fact comedian Leslie Neilsen's older brother Erik was Canada Deputy PM and lattery Leader of the Opposition
Isn't it pronounced 'Cane-z-in' economics?
given the pronunciation of the place-name Milton Keynes (Mill-tun Keenz) in Britain, i would suspect it's pronounced "Keenz-ian"
North Korea: chooses leader based on his father instead of any actual qualifications
Canada: first time?
Wouldn't this be logically the other way around
That's a pretty extreme comparison, political dynasties are not uncommon in democracies.
US: *Quickly shoving Bushes, Roosevelts, Clintons, Kenndys under the carpet*
We’ve had that in the U.S. We had George H. W. Bush as our president from 1989-1993 and then his son became president from 2001-2009
He joins Lester B. Pearson as one of the most important Canadian Prime Ministers in history especially regarding foreign affairs.
Important as in terrible.
@@nathanc5778 lol He is arguably the greatest PM we ever had.
@@VolcardoReviewer Not if you are a conservative.
@@VolcardoReviewer, He was a Communist and a Draft Dodger, loved Cuba and Castro, hated the USA . Responsible for the Multicultural immigration mess we have today.
@@VolcardoReviewer I’d say he’s arguably the worst, maybe only slightly better than his traitorous son, but that’s it. He completely screwed Alberta, he screwed Air Canada, his moronic policies some of the worst inflation and highest interest rates in Canadian history, he was in bed with Fidel Castro during the Cold War, him and Crétien built an astonishingly high number of residential schools, oh and there was also that infamous incident where he gave the finger to albertan protesters after he passed the NEP and essentially stole their economy from them.
Justin is half the man his father was.
Fidel?
With a quarter of his mom's brain
That 1979 budget failure reminds me at bit of 2019-2020 Israel
I am a senior and suffered through both of these idiots. The son raised in a multi term PM’s home had the best schools on Ottawa, hobnobbed with the Ottawa elite, travelled the world in luxury and still was insensitive enough to repeatedly wear blackface well into adulthood. They both crippled Canada with record debts and caused great division in the country but were our shallow image focused media darlings.
"The man who made modern canada"
I think he needed to go back to the drawing board.
Fantastic video!
I saw the title and i thought this was a J.J. Video
Hello friends, my name’s not J.J.
Huh! I got that reference,good old jj mculough haven't heard in a while in the comment section.
I don’t know how accurate of a comparison this is but as an American I have always thought of Pierre Trudeau as a Canadian FDR
William Lyon Mackenzie-King had more in common with Roosevelt than Trudeau did
I was born when he'd been in office a couple of years, in last year middle school when he left. I've hated him ever since and spit on his memory. But he was a titan, an intellectual wildly superior to his son in every way, a statesman even, and the title is right. He had a vision, and he set things in motion never to be resolved. He felt that he had to destroy the nationalism of French Canada, to do that he had to destroy what was left of the nationalism of English Canada, and although I think he had a sort of new Canadian nationalism in mind, it didn't quite entirely work that way.
I have been known him very short periods of time .
Only just an opinion. For sure one of brilliant politicians Canadian ever had
And his son became a dictator in 2022…
People used to say the same thing about his father.
@MaryQueen-hk3gm what's that go to do with anything,,?
As a leader of a country and government, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. May as well leave a legacy behind. Unlike any of our other PM's, Trudeau's legacy, charisma and intellect will stay with Canadians till the end. Can't say the same for our many other PM's that's for sure regardless of their performance.
“The Man Who Made Modern Canada” is not necessarily a compliment
Cette fois c'est oui René
This video's are very important I remember back I school they teach the basics but never actually go in on historical figures in Canada
The metric nightmare, the constitution that Quebec never signed but allowed a provincial party to have seats in parliament
Kinda weird Pierre supported Canadian oil from what's being shown here yet his son anti energy from Canada
Interesting, but the background plonking is too loud and intrusive.
For the Joe Clark government, that Budget would have passed today!.
Strange how his succesful attempt at sabotaging the Meech Lake Accords and his exceptionnaly condescendant view on Quebec culture and identity (he just wanted to see a centuries-old nation die altogether and speak, in his words, "proper french") were not mentionned....J.J. will be happy.
Imagine unironically being a quebeccer
@@ultrascarlet5275 I do, and unlike Canada I have an actual distinct culture and legacy of many men and women to celebrate and preserve like those in Europe and Asia.
@@Game_Hero You are a part of Canada. You exist as an independant Nation as much as the American South does.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I don't want anything to do with that US-clone of a country, Quebec is NOT Canada just like Tibet is NOT China. The difference between Canada and Quebec is way more deep, more rich and more historically grounded than you make it sound to be. And unlike the "South of US" absence of a nation worth celebrating, it would actually be a good thing for the world and the people living here for Quebec to be independant : a noble nation centered around the values of humanism and universalism, valuing history and idealism over postmodernism and materialism. A nation that anyone can join in, that anyone in the world can be a part of and join, free from religious obscurantism and racialism. The US south on the other hand...yikes to say the least.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 But no, by all means, continue to legitimize imperialism and taking away the right of peoples to lead themselves as stated in the United Nations chart.
I lived in Canada as a child during the Mulroney years, and I vaguely remember the collapse of the Progressive Conservative government, however aside from fuddle duddle I really didn't know much about Trudeau - even though we learned about the Constitution in class, I don't quite remember if we were taught that it was Trudeau. Thank you for doing this.
I like both Prime Minister Trudeau. Both of them are greatest Prime Minister in Canada history and world history. Former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau made a morden Canada, He made Canada economy 20% bigger than it was before, labour income is up 45%,Companies profits more than 17%...PM Trudeau has entered Canada into a booming economy for the first time since 2005, he cut poverty rate half.Richest Canadians wealth increased 50 %after pandemic...
Both were TURDS.
He was a lawyer by training. He set Canada up in a good legal setting.
New pronunciation of Keynesian just dropped.
So was similar to the Australian PM Bob Hawke in the 1980s.
Pierre Trudeau never set a world record for drinking beer.
@@SamAronow wait an Australian PM did?
I honestly think he is like the left version of Thatcher
Growing up in Los Angeles, I knew a few Canadian immigrants who absolutely hated Trudeau. Some were part French.
I'd argue that Diefenbaker, Pearson, and Trudeau make a trifecta of sorts of the PMs who made modern Canada. They are all incredibly important. Pierre Trudeau saved Canada in 1970, 1980, 1984 and 1992. He couldn't have had that ability were it not for the contractions of the other two.
Great video, very interesting, and loads of information. Small criticism the music was really loud throughout it. Especially the song with singing and became distracting because your voice in comparison was only slightly louder. Would be grateful if the music could be lower volume. Thanks and keep it up!
I want more videos on Canada
Terrible man. From residential schools to bankrupting farmers and then giving the Canadians he served the middle finger. We could have done much better in our past than him.
He was 20 when WW2 started and claimed to be a separatist to avoid actually going? Damn I didn’t know that. Funny how he was so willing to use the military in office and didn’t mind Cuba at all.
The man who excluded Québec from it...
Great video
I enjoyed the video. I would've even liked it if you hadn't added the sponsor in the middle of the damn thing.
good video, make more like this
More like the original starting to ruin Canada
Insert angry albertan comment-an angry albertan
POS X2. The CPC will have a hell of a clean up.
The first televised debate in Canada was Diefenbaker/Pearson in 1957.
This comment section is going to be lit.
Canada is special because they have two royal families and can't seem to get rid of either one.
Just don't mention him West of ThunderBay and East of Vancouver and you should be fine.
Flyover country...
@@watsonroadster3707 Yeah the part of the country that is actually economically important, as opposed to parasite country in the east and vancouver lmao.
Dude wanted higher unemployement in Quebec and incentivized industries to move out of Quebec.
Would you do that to your own people ? Personnaly no, but i don't think he view them as he's people
No, he didn't. He correctly foretold that business would move out of Quebec in the event of a referendum.
Didn't canada's biggest terrorist attack happened under his watch even after multiple warnings? lol
William L. Mackenzie King is still ten times the Prime Minister!
This gotta be the most angry comment section I've seen
I'm a year older than Justina Brandeau, and his father is older than my Grandfather... I don't get it...???
The first PM to double the national debt. Then is son did the same thing with an absolutely staggering amount of money. Great job liberal voters, your kids will thank you !
You should 100% do a video on Tommy Douglas because he is by far one of the most famous canadian politicians.
English Canada be like, "le grille what the hell is that."
Great video, people complaining of his policy and yet people lived a bit better than today, new emigrants were able to raise and feed a family on only one income and somehow manage a car as well without help from the government
I remember the senior Trudeau era as a high unemployment era in Atlantic Canada. I remember beating the streets looking for work and high inflation, inflation just like now in 2024! Overall I'm disappointed in both Trudeau eras and my pension is small because the Liberals could not improve the economy if their lives depended on it.
A traitor to a Québec seperatist, but nonetheless an important figure for Canada's history. Good video.
6:45 Yes this is the popular narrative and image about Pierre Trudeau .
However , the reality is quite different .
For example , Pierre Trudeau did not support Public Health Care
Payments for Canada's Public Health Care used to be split 50 - 50 between the federal government and Provinces ,
but then Trudeau quietly decoupled this arrangement .
The Provinces now pay about 80% of the health care costs in Canada .
Trudeau wanted a more federalist approach because he wanted more power over the Provinces .
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Where are all mass graves..Thurso,Scotland•Thurso,QuebecCanada
The Statute of Westminster (1931) was a sort of Schrödinger's Cat of Independence. Under the terms of the statute, the British Parliament could not legislate for Canada without the assent of the Canadian government. That is, no act of the British Parliament applied to Canada unless Canada agreed to it. At the same time, if Canada requested to change its Constitutional arrangement vis a vis the UK, the British Parliament was obliged to put any requested changes up for a vote. This is known as the "Request and Assent" provisions.
As a consequence of Request provision, Canadian criminal cases could no longer be appealed to British courts starting in 1935 after the Canadian government proposed this change. The Supreme Court of Canada became the highest court of appeal in Canada in criminal cases. Under the Assent provision, the British declaration of war on Germany in 1939 did not apply to Canada. The government of Canada supported war with Germany, however, and waited one week to make its own separate declaration. The Request and Assent provisions were applied several times in later years.
The 1982 Constitution Act ended this practice, which had long become a nuisance of formality. Pierre Trudeau sought the approval of all provinces in doing this, even if legally he did not need to. His idea was that such a big change was similar to the founding of the Dominion in 1867. Only Quebec failed to sign on. The Constitutional amendment formula propose, and adopted, require 2/3rds of the provinces representing at least 50% of the population to agree. This was achieved. Adding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms at the same time was the real change of that year, and it was Pierre Trudeau's greatest accomplishment that ripples on to today.
Far to complicated a figure to be covered in one episode. He had an entire "academic" journal where he foretold of the post-nationalist era. One will be able to find Justin use such language today when describing the country.
Ironically, Valliers his later nemesis in the FLQ wrote for the same paper.