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Pierre Trudeau
citationPierre Trudeau was the 15th prime minister of canada elected on april 20th 1968 till june 4th 1979. in 1968 trudeau created a bill that would legalize homosexual acts ,contraception, abortion and lotteries and a new gun ownership law and autherization of breathelyzer tests on believed DUIs . near the end of trudeaus time in office he created a bill to get rid of the death penalty. Trudeaus time in office lasted over ten years. -
Official Language Act
citation The official Language act was to Ensure respect for english and french and ensure equality rights and privalleges as to their use in federal institutions, supprort the development of english and french lingustic minority communities, and to advance the equal status and use of english and french. -
Disco during the 70`s
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Disco was a popular genre of music in the 1970's
opular bands such as abba, bee gees the village people, as well as many others
the definitions of disco are;
1 club or party at which people dance to pop music.
2 pop music intended mainly for dancing to at discos, typically soul-influenced and melodic with a regular bass beat and pop
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October Crisis
video :)citationBegan with a kidnapping of James CROSS the british trade commisioner in Montréal, he was kidnapped by the Front de Libération du Québec. It started dur to nationalist disconnect and rising unemployment. The october crisis developed into the most serious terrorist act carried out on Canadian soil. It carried out over 200 crimes including violence robberies and bombings. Another kidnap and Murder of Pirre Laporte got the prime minister involved, Pierre Trudeau who said a famous quote. -
Canada and Russian Summit Series. (hockey)
citationthis was a behemoth of a game or more of a battle between hockey giants canada and russia . there were eight games canada won four they both tied one and russia won 3 which means canada won the summit series which was a great win. -
Watergate Scandal
citationwatergate is a generalterm to political scandals between 1972 and 74. it specifically refers to the watergate hotel in washington D.C. the water gate complex also had homes and buisness offices and is where the office of the democratic national comitee was burgled in 1972 . the burglery led to cover ups to hide what happened which led to richard nixon resignation from presidencey -
Terrorists at 1972 Olympic Games
citationat the 1972 summer olympic games, the games were officaly called games of xx olimpaid.
this was the second time that Germany had held the summer olypics.
a man who had been there told the beggining og the story, `
Shortly after 4am on 5 September 1972, eight heavily armed militants from Black September, a faction of the PLO, arrived on the outskirts of Munich and scaled a perimeter fence protecting thousands of athletes sleeping in the Olympic Village. All Carrying assault rifles and grenades` -
National Energy Program
citationthe national energy program was made during the energy crisis in the 1970s due to rising oil prices. unemployment started to rise in eastern canada . the NEP was made so canada didnt have to rely on oil from other countries. to protect canada from rising oil prices by keeping domestic oil prices cheaper than the world market prices . oil prices dropped in the early 1980s thencollapsed by 1985 and with a new prime minister he decided to shut down the national energy program.
