First History Wars debate on the legacy of Pierre Trudeau: Success!
September 28, 2011 – Yesterday evening, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosted the first History Wars debate at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. The evening brought columnists David Frum and Lawrence Martin together to debate the resolution: Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s most disastrous Prime Minister. Historian Michael Bliss moderated the night that was filled with insightful, sharp, and funny commentary. The debate, the first in a four-part series on historical topics, was sponsored by the Ottawa Citizen.
Editorial pages Editor David Watson of the Ottawa Citizen covered the entire evening live in his blog. Read his full coverage of the debate here.
The debate will be available courtesy of CPAC. Details to be posted soon (online archive and broadcast schedule).
The Ottawa Citizen published David Frum’s opening statements in today’s paper in support of the resolution: Pierre Trudeau, Canada’s most disastrous Prime Minister. Tomorrow, Lawrence Martin’s opening statement arguing against the resolution will be published.
Lawrence Martin speaks as moderator Michael Bliss (middle) and David Frum look on.
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David Frumm is the republican writer who coined the phrase ”axis of evil empire” the United States used to escalate the attack and killing of 1 million Iraqi citizens after promissing the world they held weapons of mass destruction.
Trudeau led and won the titanic Canadian version of the civil war defeating a very well organised war by the seperatist forces.Reason over passion,as Canadians are with our charter of rights and freedoms protected against
the traps of governments. The PCs (poor conservatives) do not register that if it weren’t for Trudeau, we would have a bunch of states much smaller and weaker than the sum of all of us. May God always bless Canada and the strongest prime minister of our history.