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February 1984 - Pierre Trudeau resigns as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. A second news clip from June of the same year shows Trudeau bidding farewell at the party convention that would select John Turner as the new leader.

April 1968 - The Liberal Party of Canada hits the ball out of the park and chooses Pierre Trudeau as its new leader to replace Lester Pearson, a decision that would keep it in power for another 16 years.

March 16th 1983

Two days of constitutional discussion concerning the broad issue of native rights.

June 11th 1983

In 1976, Joe Clark replaced Robert Stanfield as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Also contending then for the leadership for the first time with Clark was Brian Mulroney.

Unlike Stanfield, who tried and failed three times to unseat Pierre Trudeau and the Liberals, Clark was able to win the general election of 1979 with a minority government; but it was very short-lived, falling in the House of Commons on its proposed budget, and Trudeau and his people were soon voted back to power again.

Although Clark was on track to challenge the Liberals at least one more time, Mulroney never ceased agitating and organizing and planning to become party leader, and by 1983 Clark felt compelled to reaffirm his position, calling for a leadership convention in June that saw him defeated by Mulroney.

Toward the end of overcoming the increasingly interminable intransigence of provincial governments toward constitutional reform, the Prime Minister announces a plan to carry out the matter unilaterally. (June 1978)