Through the long months of winter and spring it seemed that 1974 might be remembered as the year of minority governments. Nearly every Western nation, from Britain to Italy to Denmark, was being run by minority or coalition governments narrowly holding on to power. Canada, which had been without a majority party since 1972, seemed only one more among their number. But this week Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau will lead into office a Liberal government with a margin that should be large enough to assure a full five-year term.
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