Editing John Turner (section)

===Premiership of Pierre Trudeau===
Turner served in Trudeau's cabinet as [[Minister of Justice (Canada)|minister of justice]] for four years. Biographer Paul Litt argues that Turner was a hard-working, well-informed minister whose success was assured by his warm relationship with his peers. His achievements, say Litt, included strengthening the rights of individual defendants on trial, greater efficiency in the justice system, creation of the influential [[Law Commission of Canada|Law Reform Commission]], selecting highly professional judges, and bringing a policy perspective to the Justice Department. He led the government's position in the highly controversial [[Official Languages Act (Canada)|Official Languages Act]], and he took control during the [[October Crisis]] in 1970.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Litt|title=Elusive Destiny:The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMdjxPPLdBsC&pg=PA146|year=2011|publisher=UBC Press|pages=5–7|isbn=9780774822671|access-date=November 3, 2016|archive-date=February 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215195051/https://books.google.com/books?id=mMdjxPPLdBsC&pg=PA146|url-status=live}}</ref>

A member of the [[Blue Grit|Business Liberal]] faction of the Liberal Party,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tuns |first1=Paul |title=30 years of Liberal infighting |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/paul-tuns-30-years-of-liberal-infighting |website=Ottawa Citizen |accessdate=March 6, 2022 |date=June 16, 2014}}</ref> Turner then served as [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|Minister of Finance]] from 1972 until 1975. His challenges were severe in the face of global financial issues such as the [[1973 oil crisis]], the collapse of the postwar [[Bretton Woods system|Bretton Woods trading system]], slowing economic growth combined with soaring inflation ([[stagflation]]), and growing deficits.<ref name=Butler>{{Cite web|last=Butler|first=Patrick|date=September 19, 2020|title=CBC - John Turner Obituary|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-turner-obituary-1.5731229|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919230013/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/john-turner-obituary-1.5731229|archive-date=September 19, 2020|access-date=September 20, 2020|website=CBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Litt|first=Paul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMdjxPPLdBsC&q=john+napier+turner+bretton+woods&pg=PR8|title=Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner|date=October 21, 2011|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-2267-1|language=en|access-date=September 21, 2020|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922224931/https://books.google.com/books?id=mMdjxPPLdBsC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PR8&dq=john+napier+turner+bretton+woods&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> His positions were more conservative than Trudeau's and they drew apart. In 1975 Turner surprisingly resigned from cabinet.<ref name=":2" /> The Liberals had won the [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974 election]] by attacking [[Robert Stanfield]]'s [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives]] over their platform involving wage and price controls. However, Trudeau decided to implement the wage and price controls in late 1975, so some have suggested that Turner quit rather than carry out that proposal.<ref>Litt, ''Elusive Destiny,'' p 190</ref> In a 2013 interview with [[Catherine Clark (broadcaster)|Catherine Clark]] on [[CPAC (TV channel)|CPAC]] Turner confirmed his resignation from cabinet was a direct result of refusing to implement wage and price controls, after campaigning against them in 1974.<ref>{{YouTube|6suF6U71yEQ}}</ref>

In his memoirs, Trudeau wrote that Turner said he resigned as Finance Minister in 1975 because he was tired of politics, after 13 years in Ottawa, and wanted to move on to a better-paying job as a lawyer in Toronto, to better support his family and to be with them more, as his children were growing up. Trudeau also suggested that Turner's years as finance minister were very difficult because of turbulent and unusual conditions in the world economy, characterized as [[stagflation]], largely caused by enormous increases in the price of oil.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Trudeau|first=Pierre Elliott|title=Memoirs|date=1993|publisher=[[McClelland & Stewart]]|isbn=0-7710-8588-5|location=Toronto|oclc=30702551|author-link=Pierre Trudeau}}</ref>
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====Federal budgets presented as minister of finance====
*[[1973 Canadian federal budget]]
*[[May 1974 Canadian federal budget]]
*[[November 1974 Canadian federal budget]]
*[[1975 Canadian federal budget]]