Pierre Elliott Trudeau was an active participant in the decade of social reform and political awakening that preceded the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, and continued to act as a non-partisan social and political critic until his entry into the federal liberal party in 1966. He based his contribution as pamphleteer for various movements of reform on certain basic philosophical principles. These principles can be described as a belief in the absolute value of humanity, the efficacy of reason in human action, and the necessity of moral participation by the individual in the determination of all phases of his existence. Though these principles are not systematically presented, they are discernible and their understanding is essential as a first step in any appreciation of Trudeau. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2004-2005 / Ce mémoire de maîtrise explore la façon par laquelle les intellectuels et figures publiques au Québec français ont abordé l'histoire constitutionnelle canadienne entre 1980 et 1995 comme un chapitre du grand récit national des Québécois. Exploitant les outils de la postmodernité, de l'analyse des discours et de l'approche constructiviste de l'identité et de la nation, le mémoire explore les significations et la fonction narrative de Pierre Elliott Trudeau comme figure archétypale du traître à la nation québécoise à travers un vaste canon de littérature politique publiée entre 1987 et 1995. / This Master's Thesis aims to examine the way by which Franco-Québec intellectuals and public figures have approached Canadian constitutional history between 1980 and 1995 as a narrative of Québec nationhood. Using the post-modernist tool-kit of discourse analysis and the constructivist approach to identity and nationhood, the essay explores the meanings and narrative function of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as an archetypal traitor figure to the Québec nation throughout a large canon of narrative, political writings published between 1987 and 1995. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014