Seldom has there been a political leader so complex, so impossible to predict, so difficult to understand, so private and yet so public, as Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979, and from 1980 to 1984. Canadians came to embrace him as they had no other leader since Wilfrid Laurier, writes Richard Gwyn one of Canada's most respected journalists. "By the time of his death (September 2000) the achievements Trudeau had established for Canada - the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, multiculturalism, a tolerance of differences, bilingualism, equality of the provinces, an international policy of peacekeeping and "human security." - had become an inseparable part of the country.