Then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau privately feared the severe 1981 recession would spell destruction of the Liberal Party, according to declassified records. Cabinet ministers were urged to combat public protests by planting pro-Liberal statements in the press: ‘In the Prime Minister’s view the mood of Liberal Party members which was developing across the country was potentially very destructive.’
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