Pierre Trudeau called Free Trade a massive swindle. Can you share where he recanted? Trudeau lead feds won in 1980 with almost 60% as I recall. It was Mulroney who was responsible for the second referendum which was close due to his rolling of the dice with his ill advised constitutional gambit. Canadians repeatedly vote for Pierre Trudeau led Liberals. Obviously debt is not the whole story, according to Canadian voting citizens at that time.