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What is the significance of Pierre Elliott Trudeau?
- The Prime Minister who introduced universal healthcare to Canada
- Canada's first francophone Prime Minister
- A Prime Minister who patriated the Constitution and introduced the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Official Languages Act
- The Prime Minister who created the three territories
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau served as Canada's fifteenth Prime Minister in two periods: 1968-1979 and 1980-1984. He patriated the Constitution from Britain in 1982, adding the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also introduced the Official Languages Act and established multiculturalism as federal policy.