Today in Canada’s Political History: Lester Pearson brings tears to Pierre Trudeau’s eyes
It was a busy day on the campaign trail as the “Trudeaumania” election continued on this date in 1968. Liberal leader and PM Pierre Trudeau spent the day in Toronto. Upwards of 50,000 people crammed Nathan Phillips Square to hear from Trudeau.
Later the same day, he starred at a Grit rally in York Centre. Former PM Lester Pearson introduced his successor to the crowd at the latter event. “A man prepared to speak out loud and clear in favour of national unity,” Pearson said. “A man who doesn’t make idle promises. A man for today and a man for tomorrow. My friend, my former colleague, a man for Canada – Pierre Trudeau.”Arthur Milnes
is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
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