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OCR: POLITICAL OFFICE In 1965 convinced that Quebec separatism could only be countered at the federal llevel, Trudeau joined Lester Peal rson government. As Minister of Justice, claiming that "the state has no business in the bed rooms of the nation, he reformed divorce law and liberalized laws on homosexuality and abortion His personal flamboyance and his spirited defences 0 federalism shot him to prominence In1968 he rode to the Liberal leadership pue election as PM on a wave of Trudeaumania demonstrating irresistible political charisma. BIOGRAPHY of federallevel Pearson This 1968 irresis stible