Just four years after Trudeaumania had swept the land in 1968, Canadian voters granted Pierre Trudeau only a bare minority government. Erola told Pierre Trudeau that her job no longer made sense. Pierre Trudeau asked how she intended to do this when he could not. A lot of the discussion focused on political risk-taking and just how much Pierre Trudeau gambled when he embarked on the negotiations for a new constitution and charter. That was the big difference between 1982 and 1972, Axworthy told me later.

Source: thestar April 18, 2019 21:33 UTC