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Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a very controversial character in Canadian history. Raised by his French Canadian father and his Scottish mother, he would grow up to become fluent in both French and English cultures. This would eventually put him in the ideal position to deal with the French-English controversies that he would have to face in the future as Prime minister. Despite his alienation of the western provinces, Pierre Elliot Trudeau should be remembered for his strong stand against Quebec separation to keep Canada united in the midst of political controversy and upheaval caused by Quebec separatists. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born in 1919 in Montreal to a wealthy family, the son of a French Canadian businessman and a mother of Scottish ancestry.”(Whittaker) This background would give Trudeau a good grounding on both English and French culture and it put him in a good position to deal with the controversies he would later face as Prime Minister. He received an excellent education, having attended “a Jesuit college, London School of Economics, Harvard, and Mcgill.”(Alward) Before Trudeau became P.M. in1968, he had a lot of political experience: he had been an adviser to an Ottawa council, he joined the Liberal party