Editing Liberal Party of Canada (section)

====Pierre Trudeau====
{{Main|Premierships of Pierre Trudeau}}
[[File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg|left|165px|thumb|[[Pierre Trudeau]], the 15th prime minister of Canada (1968–1979, 1980–1984)]]
Under [[Pierre Trudeau]], the mission of a progressive social policy evolved into the goal of creating a "[[just society]]".<ref>{{cite web|first1= Allison|last1= Calwell|title= Former Canadian PM dies|url= http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s193185.htm|date= September 29, 2000|publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date= November 13, 2015|archive-date= September 13, 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240913225258/https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/worldtoday|url-status= live}}</ref> In the late 1970s, Trudeau stated that his Liberal Party adhered to the "[[Radical centrism|radical centre]]".<ref name=Graham>Graham, Ron, ed. (1998). ''The Essential Trudeau''. McClelland & Stewart, p.&nbsp;71. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-8591-8}}.</ref><ref>Thompson, Wayne C. (2017). ''Canada''. Rowman & Littlefield, p.&nbsp;135. {{ISBN|978-1-4758-3510-6}}.</ref>

The Liberal Party under Trudeau promoted [[Official bilingualism in Canada|official bilingualism]] and passed the ''[[Official Languages Act of Canada|Official Languages Act]]'', which gave French and English languages equal status in Canada.<ref name="hist"/> Trudeau hoped that the promotion of bilingualism would cement Quebec's place in Confederation, and counter growing calls for an independent Quebec. The party hoped the policy would transform Canada into a country where English and French Canadians could live together, and allow Canadians to move to any part of the country without having to lose their language. Although this vision has yet to fully materialize, official bilingualism has helped to halt the decline of the French language outside of Quebec, and to ensure that all federal government services (including radio and television services provided by the government-owned [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]/[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]]) are available in both languages throughout the country.<ref>{{cite web|first1= Tamara|last1= Baluja|first2= James|last2= Bradshaw|title= Is bilingualism still relevant in Canada?|url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/is-bilingualism-still-relevant-in-canada/article4365620/?page=all|date= June 22, 2012|newspaper= The Globe and Mail|access-date= November 13, 2015|archive-date= September 13, 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240913225326/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/is-bilingualism-still-relevant-in-canada/article4365620/?page=all|url-status= live}}</ref>

The Trudeau Liberals are also credited with support for [[Multiculturalism in Canada|state multiculturalism]] as a means of integrating immigrants into Canadian society without forcing them to shed their culture,<ref>{{cite book|author1= Stephen Tierney|author2= Hugh Donald Forbes|title= Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution|url= http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2007/multiculturalismandthecanadianconstitution.pdf|year= 2007|publisher= UBC Press|isbn= 978-0-7748-1445-4|pages= 27–41|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033156/http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2007/multiculturalismandthecanadianconstitution.pdf|archive-date= November 17, 2015|df= mdy-all}}</ref> leading the party to build a base of support among recent immigrants and their children.<ref>Blais, André. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=364576 "Accounting for the Electoral Success of the Liberal Party in Canada"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117052953/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=364576 |date=November 17, 2015 }}. ''Journal of Political Science,'' Dec 2005, Vol. 38#4. pp 821–840.</ref> This marked the culmination of a decades-long shift in Liberal immigration policy, a reversal of pre-war racial attitudes that spurred discriminatory policies such as the [[Chinese Immigration Act of 1923]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Chinese Immigration Act, 1923|url = http://www.pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/chinese-immigration-act-1923|publisher = Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21|access-date = April 30, 2017|archive-date = May 2, 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170502034523/http://www.pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/chinese-immigration-act-1923|url-status = live}}</ref> and the [[MS St. Louis|MS St. Louis incident]].<ref>{{cite news|author = Stephanie Levitz|title = Liberals working on apology for 1939 decision to turn away Jewish refugees|url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-working-on-apology-for-1939-decision-to-turn-away-jewish-refugees/article36410599/|newspaper = The Globe and Mail|date = September 27, 2016|access-date = September 28, 2017|archive-date = November 15, 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171115172738/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-working-on-apology-for-1939-decision-to-turn-away-jewish-refugees/article36410599/|url-status = live}}</ref>[[File:Liberal Party logo 1968.svg|thumb|Trudeau-era wordmark and logo]]

The most lasting effect of the Trudeau years has been the [[patriation]] of the [[Constitution of Canada]] and the creation of the ''[[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author1= Lois Harder|author2= Steve Patten|title= Patriation and Its Consequences: Constitution Making in Canada|url= http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2015/PatriationAndItsConsequences.pdf|year= 2015|publisher= UBC Press|isbn= 978-0-7748-2861-1|pages= 3–23|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032743/http://www.ubcpress.ca/books/pdf/chapters/2015/PatriationAndItsConsequences.pdf|archive-date= November 17, 2015|df= mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first= Linda|last= McKay-Panos|title= The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: An Integral Part of our Constitution|url= http://www.lawnow.org/the-canadian-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms-an-integral-part-of-our-constitution/|newspaper= LawNow|access-date= November 12, 2015|date= January 1, 2013|archive-date= September 13, 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240913225258/http://www.lawnow.org/the-canadian-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms-an-integral-part-of-our-constitution/|url-status= live}}</ref> Trudeau's Liberals supported the concept of a strong, central government, and fought [[History of the Quebec sovereignist movement|Quebec separatism]], other forms of [[Quebec nationalism]], and the granting of "[[distinct society]]" status to Quebec; however, such actions served as rallying cries for sovereigntists, and alienated many Francophone Quebeckers.