Pierre Trudeau’s act of raising his middle finger to protesters from his seat inside a private rail car during a vacation in Salmon Arm, BC with his children on August 8, 1982.
The Salmon Arm Salute became very much the visual equivalent of “Fuddle Duddle”. Over a quarter century later, the Ontario Film Board added the one-fingered salute [1] to its list of crude behaviours.
Image Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia
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