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Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal) or Montreal-Trudeau for short, is an international airport serving Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its IATA code is YUL. It is the busiest airport in the province of Quebec and the 3rd busiest airport in Canada serving 9.0 million passengers in 2003. Currently the airport is completing a C$700 million expansion plan that will double the capacity of the terminal.
Montreal-Trudeau was formerly known as Montreal Dorval International Airport. It is located in Dorval, Quebec on the Island of Montreal, now part of the borough of Dorval-L'Île-Dorval in Montreal. The airport was renamed by the federal government in honour of former Canadian Prime Minister, the late Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau, on January 1, 2004, the renaming having been announced in September the previous year. This move provoked opposition from Quebecers, especially Quebec sovereignists opposed to some of the policies of the former Prime Minister.
Air Canada with service to Cancun, Cayo Coco (Cuba), Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Paris CDG, Guadeloupe, Port au Prince, Puerto Plata (Dom. Republic)and Varadero (Cuba)
Zoom Airlines with charter service to holiday destinations.
Transborder (US) Airlines
Air Canada and its regional affiliates with service to Boston, Chicago, Hartford, Los Angeles, Miami, New York LaGuardia, New York Newark, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington Dulles and Washington Reagan.
Air Transat with charter service to US holiday destinations.
American Airlines and its regional affiliates with service to Chicago, Dallas, Miami, and New York JFK.
Trudeau was persuaded to run for the Liberal leadership and ran an energetic campaign that mobilized and inspired many youths who had been influenced by the 1960s counterculture and saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change.
Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of No Confidence and the party persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election.
PierreElliottTrudeau died on September 28, 2000, and is buried in the Trudeau family crypt, St-Remi-de-Napierville Cemetery, Saint-Remi, Quebec.