Pierre Trudeau was behaving strangely indeed. At a Toronto fund-raising dinner, he delivered a speech on women's rightsa subject that had not overly concerned Canada's bachelor Prime Minister in the past. The next morning, during his regular Thursday Cabinet meeting in Ottawa, he announced that he was taking a few days off to go skiing. The news surprised the ministers, since Trudeau had always been so sensitive about his personal life that he did not even disclose weekend plans to his closest associates.
Later in the day, a news flash from Vancouver, B.C.,...
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