Longtime parti-Quebecois leader RENE LEVESQUE's English was better than Justin's - that's for sure. Far broader a vocabulary. And while Justin's father Pierre avoided military service in order to stay "as far away from the front" as possible during the war, Levesque spent most of his wartime days "on the front"  as a reporter for the U.S. Army's Stars and Stripes - and also for American radio stations. He wasn't a scared y-cat in the fight against Nazi Germany.
Americans liked Levesque's style and manner. And Levesque himself sounded more like a "working man" in both French and English than either Pierre Trudeau or his son Justin.