Edited sentence: Despite having a popular following among today's Liberals, many to the left of the Canadian political spectrum and in major urban centres, Pierre Trudeau remains a controversial figure today just as much as he did when he left office in the mid-1980s.Many other critics of Pierre Trudeau remember him for leading Canada down a path to nationalization via projects like Petro Canada and some even believe that he had a hidden agenda to turn Canada into a communist state, as seen through his close ties with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.Perhaps the most controversial legacy of Trudeau is the Charter which is seen either as his greatest legacy or as a disastrous document that has hindered Canadian democracy, led to the current constitutional crisis with the province of Quebec and been used by judicial activists and lobby groups to re-write foundational Canadian laws.Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, both of whom who have written quite critically of the Canadian Prime Minister.The National Energy Program, for example, angers many Western Canadians to this day is still contributes to the poor election showing by the federal Liberal Party in Western Canada.This was constantly seen during the Trudeau years given the rocky relations between Trudeau and U.Trudeau also imposed a radically social liberal agenda upon Canada which decriminalized homosexuality, destroyed family laws that treated marriage as a contract and led the way to legal abortions, angering many people of different religions.Trudeau is considered the father of modern Canadian anti-Americanism, which some argue borders on racism and is one of the few discriminations that Trudeau not only ignored but helped to contribute to.Trudeau's unpopularity with many circles of Canadians lies in the fact that his policies often benefited some groups at the expense of others