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The Trudeau government was little interested in economic growth, and allowed prosperity give way to stagnation and recession as unemployment and inflation proved intractable. Trudeau was reelected with only a minority government in the 1972 election, in part because of a slowing economy.  In the 1974 election Trudeau won a majority, after ridiculing Conservative economic policies, which he had to adopt himself a year later. The economy performed poorly through the late 1970s and Trudeau lost his first general election to the Conservatives in 1979 under the [[Joe Clark]]<ref> See [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001651 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' on Clark]</ref>  Clark's minority government tried to privatize Petro Canada, but soon lost a no-confidence vote.

The Trudeau government was little interested in economic growth, and allowed prosperity give way to stagnation and recession as unemployment and inflation proved intractable. Trudeau was reelected with only a minority government in the 1972 election, in part because of a slowing economy.  In the 1974 election Trudeau won a majority, after ridiculing Conservative economic policies, which he had to adopt himself a year later. The economy performed poorly through the late 1970s and Trudeau lost his first general election to the Conservatives in 1979 under the [[Joe Clark]]<ref> See [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001651 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' on Clark]</ref>  Clark's minority government tried to privatize Petro Canada, but soon lost a no-confidence vote.

===Foreign and defense policy===

===Foreign and defense policy===

In foreign policy Trudeau reversed previous stances, such of those common in the Diefenbaker years, of putting American interest firsts. He and Richard Nixon reportedly hated each other, and this antagonistic relationship helped to shape Canada's foreign policy in the 1970s, which would often play very well in Canadian public opinion. He opposed the deployment of American nuclear warheads in Canada. he also reduced the size of Canada's forces stationed in Europe.

In foreign policy Trudeau went out of his way to anagonize Americans; he distrusted [[NATO]] and he and Nixon hated each other. Canada did not have the power to shape its own foreign policy, but he could antagonize the Americans by, for example, being friendly toward Moscow or shouting "Viva Castro!" in Havana. He gave only muted disapproval of Soviet atrocities regarding the invasions of Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979), the suppression of Solidarity in Poland in 1981, and the shooting down of the Korean airliner in 1983. Trudeau at first decided, against internal opposition, to reduce Canadian forces in NATO stationed in Europe; he later warmed up to NATO.<ref>Granatstein and Bothwell, (1990)</ref> To make up for the military weakness Trudeau priomoted Third World friendships and tried to strengthen Canada's national hockey team.<ref> Paul Conlin, "The Cold War and Canadian Nationalism on Ice: Federal Government Involvement in International Hockey during the 1960s". ''Canadian Journal of History of Sport'' 1994 25(2): 50-68. </ref>

===1980 win===

===1980 win===