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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for this week's episode of Into the Killing. |
0:04.0 | If you decided to jump in at episode 53, we love your bravado and thanks for checking us out. |
0:10.0 | The good news is that most episodes, including this one, are self-contained stories, so you don't have to listen to earlier episodes for this one to make sense. |
0:18.0 | But that being said, we would love it if you went back and checked out |
0:21.2 | the older episodes. Of course, thank you so much if you've been listening all along. For this |
0:26.3 | episode, we're traveling back over four decades to March 1980. It was an interesting time in |
0:31.7 | Canadian politics. Well, as interesting as something like Canadian politics can get. Pierre |
0:37.1 | Elliott Trudeau first became prime minister in April, 1968. |
0:41.3 | He held the office until his party, the Liberal Party of Canada, lost the election in May 1979. |
0:47.9 | Joe Clark of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada then became Prime Minister. |
0:52.7 | Pierre Trudeau retired after the defeat. |
0:55.3 | But when the first budget was presented by the progressive conservatives, a motion of non-confidence |
1:00.0 | was passed. |
1:01.1 | The problem was that they wanted to make an 18 cent per gallon tax on gas, and this was |
1:05.8 | extremely unpopular. |
1:07.5 | The motion led to another election in February 1980. |
1:13.6 | Pierre Trudeau was asked to become the party leader again and he agreed. Pierre and the Liberal Party won. |
1:15.6 | He resumed office on March 3rd, less than a year after losing the election. |
1:20.6 | Pierre Trudeau was the father of Canada's current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. |
1:24.6 | The same month that Pierre Alia Trudeau returned to office, the first rock and roll festival |
1:29.5 | was held in the Soviet Union. |
1:31.9 | It is considered an important milestone in Soviet-slash-Russian rock music. |
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