Pierre Trudeau had many styles of leadership and you couldn't predict in advance how he would handle any particular situation. Pierre took all sorts of advice in and then would produce the unexpected at any given moment. He had an unerring instinct for what was unexpected and yet, totally appropriate to the circumstance. His leadership was, first of all, at a very high level of principle. Pierre had thought quite deeply about issues -- he had spent years making himself familiar with the world, people in it, and the issues that govern people's lives. He came to leadership with a fairly mature concept of social and political goals.
