Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press september 2000 b1 Rahv Reuters Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919 2000 Pierre Elliott Trudeau burst onto Canadas political scene in 1968 with flamboyance and fresh kindling the imagination of the country As it optimistically headed into its second fluently arrogant and often irreverent people grew to love him or hate him with a or shrug Trudeau style at his he did Bac flips into swimming wore sandals in dated glamorous he was a mod Ern and magnetic con Trast to stodgy politicians before but the flickering love affair that kept the Man with the red Rose in his Lapel in Power for almost 16 years had grown cold by the time he decided finally to turn his attention away from Trudeau mania was stale history the popu Larity of the Man and the Liberal party was in tatters when he departed in after four terms As prime minister and a Brief Purgatory in but True to that departure showed the same dra Matic flair evident through much of his Public the resignation announcement came on that infrequent leap year with the decision reached during a Long walk through Ottawa streets emptied by a howling Winter the Man voted Canadas top news maker of the 20th Century in the Canadian pres broadcast news poll of died yesterday of prostate he also had been suffering from Parkinson Trudeau was and just a few weeks away from his 81st birth devastating loss the death came after a bout with pneumonia earlier this friends dated his failing health Back to the tragic death of his youngest who was swept away by an Avalanche in British Columbia in late the loss seemed to age the perennially Youthful Trudeau canadians were shocked by the sear ing image of the grief shaken frail Man who walked out of the Church following his sons memorial it was not the Man that canadians were used to the one who would Pirouette behind the slide Down a Banister or give protesters the Trudeau two most Concrete legacies bracket his French was made an official along with eng during his first and he finally achieved his lifelong dream in Patria Tion of the Constitution severed the final colonial Jinks with Britain and launched a lengthy transformation of Canadian political and judicial life with its entrenched charter of rights and continued please see remembering b2 Trudeau does a Pirouette on the Airport runway after bidding Farewell to the Queen in 1982 far bemused football fans watch As the flamboyant prime minis Ter makes his Way from the grandstand to the Field to present the Grey cup to the Montreal Alou ettes in 1970 fiery Quebec separatist Premier Rene Levesque shrugs As he walks away from the prime minister during the 1980 Constitution Trudeau cuts Loose with an admirer in Montreal in 1979 them appears deep in concentration during a 1983 ceremony heed with the Queen in Vancouver a modern contrast to the politicians before photographs from Cacao Sajt press archives ;