Pierre Trudeau (1980-1984) and Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) | The Brian Mulroney Institute of Government

This is an array of documents exploring the challenging transition in the ascent of the Reagan (conservative) presidency while Pierre Trudeau (liberal) was Prime Minister:
- https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/an-unexpected-and-challenging-/summary
President Ronald Reagan's Address to the Canadian Parliament March 11, 1981, and the first visit by an American President since 1972:
President Reagan's visit to Ottawa in March 1981 where he met with acid rain demonstrators and protesters against Reagan's involvement in El Salvador:
President Reagan's visit in 1981 to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Trudeau to discuss major policy issues (i.e. Canada limiting US investment into Canada especially in the oil industry, fishery management, acid rain, great lake pollution, auto pact, etc):
President Ronald Reagan's Diary after meeting Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau where he says he "went to Parliament hill to meet P.M. Trudeau. Discovered I liked him.":
- https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/white-house-diaries/diary-entry-03101981/
Prime Minister Trudeau's response to President Reagan's administration scraping fish stock protection treaty signed in 1979:
- https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/13/world/with-treaty-dropped-trudeau-asks-reagan-to-act-on-fish-stocks.html
Photo of President Reagan and Prime Minister Trudeau in a State Box in Ottawa 1981:
- https://biblio.uottawa.ca/omeka2/linking-cultures/items/show/115
Prime Minister Trudeau and President Reagan's meeting prior to the 1983 Economic Summit in Williamsburg (to discuss world economic recovery & disarmament efforts):
- https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/28/Prime-Minister-Pierre-Trudeau-met-US-President-Ronald-Reagan/2463420350400/
- https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/28/Prime-Minister-Pierre-Trudeau-welcomed-a-pledge-by-US/8455420350400/
Conclusions of the 1983 WIlliamsburg Summit (where Trudeau supported French President Mitterrand regarding Reagan's proposition to deploy a class of nuclear weapons in to get the Soviet Union to engage in negotiations):
- https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1983/6/13/how-reagan-runs-a-summit
Canada and the Reagan Administration:
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002070208103600110?journalCode=ijxa
President Reagan and Prime Minister Trudeau's discussion of crucial bilateral issues and multilateral issues (i.e. peace initiative and disarmament efforts in the Cold War):
- https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-president-and-prime-minister-pierre-elliott-trudeau-canada-following-0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1MzYoTjwo0
Canada's proposal for a declaration on East-West relations and the sharp criticism by US President Ronald Reagan (1984) and when asked about the discussions, he called US officials 'liars' and that the Americans could do more to advance disarmament and peace:
- https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/06/10/Canadian-Prime-Minister-Pierre-Trudeau-Sunday-angrily-denied-reports/3542455688000/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/12/world/ottawa-playing-down-trudeau-s-differences-with-reagan.html
Pierre Trudeau's Memoirs:
- Page 220 he says:
  - "Later, in my final term, I even got along quite well with Ronald Reagan, even though we were about as far apart in outlook and personality as two people could be."
- Page 301 he says:
  - "President Reagan was not a man for thoughtful policy discussions, but he was pleasant and congenial and my children found him entertaining"
- Page 329 he says:
  - "President Reagan was a great storyteller and a very sociable man. But his outlook was dominated by a deep faith in the free market system and by what I can only call an obsession with communism. His view of the world was largely anecdotal":
- https://books.google.ca/books?id=zqsJbzlwtwsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=reagan&f=false

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Prime Minister - President Affairs (Canada-U.S. Relations)