Today in Canada’s Political History: US Ambassador Thomas Enders meets with PM Pierre Trudeau after PQ victoryPrime Minister Pierre Trudeau offered no false optimism in talks with the senior U.S. official in Canada after the surprise election of Rene Lévesque and the PQ three days before. Ambassador Thomas Enders had a 40-minute private meeting with Trudeau in the aftermath of the PQ win and filed a report on his discussion to the State Department on November 18, 1976. “Trudeau displayed no optimism: he made no effort (as have others) to describe for me a scenario in which everything comes out all right,” Ambassador Enders wrote. “It is not at all clear that Trudeau has the strength to stonewall Levesque the way he stonewalled Bourassa,” Enders wrote. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
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