Trudeau's Efforts at Achieving Canadian Unity (East/West, French/English)

Throughout Canadian history, the idea of national unity has been challenged numerous times, mainly by conflicts between English and French Canadians. In the past half-century, however, the issue of Western alienation from federal politics has developed into a significant obstacle to Canadian unity. While the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau was in power, its main focus was on resolving these conflicts to bring about a true sense of national unity, without the regionalism that was …

…istence in Canada. Trudeau's attempts at achieving this goal might have been done with good intentions, but in the end it only made the division line that much deeper. Western Canada has felt alienated from federal politics ever since the N.E.P. policy of the 1980s, and French and English Canada still try to ignore the problems that they have with each other, meeting with limited success.