To: fresc who wrote (4728 ) 4/24/2005 12:22:10 PM From: Gulo Read Replies (5) | Respond to I can't emphasize enough how vehemently I disagree with you on the qualities of Pierre Trudeau as a Prime Minister. He was an unmitigated disaster for the Canadian economy, Canadian unity and the quality of life in this country. Never mind that he set us back decades in development by screwing up the industrial regulatory regime and by sending us on a trajectory of ever-spiralling debt by convincing Canadians that there was no cost to federal handouts. His impact on the very fabric of Canadian Society was that people lost the ability, and even the desire, to think and fend for themselves. The entitlement mentality that drags us down to this day, a quarter century after the peak of his power, can be directly attributed to his welfare-state socialist agenda. He was to Canada what Chavez is to Venezuela today.
