Pierre Elliott Trudeau Article

How did Pierre Trudeau lose office in 1979?

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Throughout the 1970s Pierre Trudeau struggled against increasing economic and domestic problems. In the national general election of 1979, his Liberal Party failed to win a majority, and the Progressive Conservative Party won power as a minority government. After a series of conservative blunders, Trudeau was returned to power in the general election of 1980.