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Trudeaumania was the nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
 given in early 1968 to the excitement generated by Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Order of the Companions of Honour, Queen's Counsel, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984....
's entry into the leadership race of the Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeaumania (an eponym derived from Pierre Trudeau's name), continued during the subsequent federal election campaign and during Mr. Trudeau's early years as Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet of Canada, and thus head of government of Canada. The office is not outlined in any of the documents that constitute the written portion of the constitution of Canada; executive authority is formally vested in the Monarchy of Canada and exercised on hi...
.

Many young people in Canada
Canada

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 at this time were influenced by the 1960s counterculture
Counterculture

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 and identified with Trudeau, a young, energetic, nonconformist.






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Trudeaumania was the nickname
Nickname

A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Another class of nickname is the familiar or truncated form of the proper name, such as Bob, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, and Bert for Robert, more properly called a short name....
 given in early 1968 to the excitement generated by Pierre Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Order of the Companions of Honour, Queen's Counsel, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984....
's entry into the leadership race of the Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeaumania (an eponym derived from Pierre Trudeau's name), continued during the subsequent federal election campaign and during Mr. Trudeau's early years as Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet of Canada, and thus head of government of Canada. The office is not outlined in any of the documents that constitute the written portion of the constitution of Canada; executive authority is formally vested in the Monarchy of Canada and exercised on hi...
.

Many young people in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 at this time were influenced by the 1960s counterculture
Counterculture

Counterculture is a Sociology term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition....
 and identified with Trudeau, a young, energetic, nonconformist. They were dazzled by Trudeau's charm and good looks, and a large fan base was established throughout the country. He would often be stopped in the streets for his autograph or for a quick photograph. Trudeau had once sympathized with Marxists
Marxism

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 and had spent time in the democratic socialist
Democratic socialism

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 Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and many of his fans were attracted to his socially liberal stances (he legalized homosexuality
Homosexuality

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 and created more flexible divorce
Divorce

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 laws as Justice Minister
Minister of Justice (Canada)

The Minister of Justice is the Minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada who is responsible for the Department of Justice and is also Attorney General of Canada....
 under Lester B. Pearson
Lester B. Pearson

Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Merit , Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957....
). Trudeau was also admired for his laid-back attitude and his celebrity
Celebrity

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 relationships; in that word's prevailing use at the time, describing a modern, hip and happening person, he was described as a swinger.

Trudeaumania began to fizzle after Pierre Trudeau married Margaret Sinclair
Margaret Trudeau

Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada....
 in 1971, but he is remembered to this day as one of Canada's most polarizing politicians and prime ministers: fondly recalled by many Central
Central Canada

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 and Eastern Canadians
Eastern Canada

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 while at the same time unpopular in the western provinces and among conservative thinkers and Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
 nationalists. He was named the Canadian Newsmaker of the 20th Century
Canadian Newsmaker of the Year

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 by the Canadian Press
Canadian Press

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 at the dawn of the year 2000. When he died later that year, there was an outpouring of public grief, and he was again named Newsmaker of the Year for 2000 itself. In 2004, he was voted the third-Greatest Canadian
The Greatest Canadian

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 by CBC viewers, coming behind medicare
Health care in Canada

Health care in Canada is funded and delivered through a publicly-funded health care system, with most services provided by private entities.Health care spending in is projected to reach $160 billion, or 10.6% of GDP, in 2007....
 champion Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas

Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Saskatchewan Order of Merit was a Scotland-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canada Social democracy politician....
 and cancer
Cancer

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 activist Terry Fox
Terry Fox

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.

A Canadian board game
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 of the early 1980s, "True Dough Mania
True Dough Mania

True Dough Mania was a Canada board game, created by George J. Reti, which was released in 1982 in games by Chieftain Products.Subtitled "a game of chance where you have no chance", the game was a satire on Canadian politics....
", was titled with a pun
Pun

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 on the phenomenon
Phenomenon

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. The game was a satire
Satire

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 on Canadian politics.

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