{"id":1200,"date":"2013-03-11T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:17","slug":"pieree-trudeau-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2013\/pieree-trudeau-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Trudeau remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Pierre Trudeau remembered\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Jean-Jacques Blais, minister in the Cabinet of Pierre Trudeau, spoke with Riddell program students about the former prime minister\u2019s leadership style.&nbsp; Blais described Trudeau as the \u201cbrightest and most able\u201d person he had ever met. Trudeau was interested in the exchange of ideas, meaning that Cabinet meetings were stimulating exercises. Decision-making was reflective, but Trudeau exerted strong leadership to provide the government with focus. From 1976 to 1984, Mr. Blais served in several Cabinet portfolios, including national defence. After leaving politics, he returned to the practice of law and served for seven years as a member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee.&nbsp; He is now counsel with MBM Intellectual Property Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Jacques Blais, minister in the Cabinet of Pierre Trudeau, spoke with Riddell program students about the former prime minister\u2019s leadership style.&nbsp; Blais described Trudeau as the \u201cbrightest and most able\u201d person he had ever met. Trudeau was interested in the exchange of ideas, meaning that Cabinet meetings were stimulating exercises. Decision-making was reflective, but Trudeau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}