Trudeauesque

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1. Involving the policies or values associated with Pierre Elliott Trudeau, especially those of social justice and multiculturalism.

   Vermont is a tolerant, wealthy, almost Trudeauesque corner of the US.

   2018 December 1, David McWilliams, “Sanders is building a new political movement and could run again”, in Irish Times

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   Will it live on in those who never harbored the condition but who – in the Trudeauesque spirit of “embrac[ing] any style, cultural trope, or image of beauty that attracts [them] regardless of its origin" - can and might preserve many of the group's tradditions?

   2006, Andrew Stark, The Limits of Medicine, page 152

   There were definite Trudeauesque assertions of the importance of fundamental individual rights, popular sovereignty, reduction of regional disparities, respect for multiculturalism, and the implicit denial of the two nation theory.

   2013, Barry L. Strayer, Canada's Constitutional Revolution, page 93