Editing Pierre Trudeau (section)

== Career ==
Because of Trudeau's labour union activities in Asbestos, Duplessis blacklisted him, and he was unable to teach law at the Université de Montréal.<ref name="economist_obituary_20001005" /> He surprised his closest friends in Quebec when he became a civil servant in [[Ottawa]] in 1949. Until 1951, he worked in the [[Privy Council Office (Canada)|Privy Council Office]] of the Liberal Prime Minister [[Louis St. Laurent]] as an economic policy advisor. He wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful when he entered politics later on, and that senior civil servant [[Norman Robertson]] tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on.

Trudeau's progressive values and his close ties with [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF) intellectuals (including [[F. R. Scott]], [[Eugene Forsey]], [[Michael Kelway Oliver]] and [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]]) led to his support of and membership in the party throughout the 1950s.{{sfn|English (2006)|p=364}}

An associate professor of law at the Université de Montréal from 1961 to 1965, Trudeau's views evolved towards a liberal position in favour of individual rights counter to the state and made him an opponent of Quebec nationalism. He admired labour unions, which were tied to the [[Cooperative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF), and tried to infuse his Liberal Party with some of their reformist zeal. By the late 1950s, Trudeau began to reject social democratic and labour parties, arguing that they should put their narrow goals aside and join forces with Liberals to fight for democracy first.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Christo |last=Aivalis |title=In the Name of Liberalism: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left, 1949–1959 |journal=Canadian Historical Review |date=June 2013 |volume=94 |number=7 |pp=263–288 |doi=10.3138/chr.1498}}</ref> In economic theory, he was influenced by professors [[Joseph Schumpeter]] and [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] while he was at Harvard. In 1963, Trudeau criticized the Liberal Party of [[Lester B. Pearson]] when it supported arming [[Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc|Bomarc missiles]] in Canada with [[nuclear weapon|nuclear warheads]].{{sfn|English (2006)|pp=183–185}}

During his time as a professor at the Université de Montréal, he was featured in [[Denis Héroux]]'s 1964 student film ''[[Over My Head (film)|Over My Head]] (Jusqu'au cou)'', appearing as himself in a political debate.<ref>{{cite news |first=Benoît |last=Aubin |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2010/09/14/des-films-oublies-de-la-belle-epoque |title=Des films oubliés de la «belle époque» |newspaper=[[Le Journal de Montréal]] |language=fr |date=September 14, 2010}}</ref>

Trudeau was offered a position at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] teaching political science by [[James Corry (academic)|James Corry]], who later became Principal of Queen's, but turned it down because he preferred to teach in Quebec.{{sfn|Trudeau (1993)|pp=63–64}}