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Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC KC AdE ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kʁe.tsjɛ̃]; born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2005. Born and raised in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Chrétien is a law graduate from Université Laval.
Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian lawyer and Liberal Party politician, who served as prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. The 18th of 19 children of a working-class family, Chrétien studied law at Laval University and was called to the bar in Quebec in 1958.
Feb 2, 2012 · Lawyer and longtime parliamentarian Jean Chrétien was Canada’s 20th prime minister. Early in his political career, Chrétien helped negotiate the patriation of the Canadian constitution as well as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
Apr 11, 2024 · Jean Chrétien served as Canada’s Prime Minister for 10 years, from 1993 to 2003. That alone would have been enough to earn him an enduring place in Canadian history. However, for Chrétien himself, the role of Prime Minister was simply the crowning moment in a long and eventful career.
Like his close friend Bill Clinton (b. 1946), Jean Chretien was a moderate, pragmatic leader who presided over the distinctly Canadian era of “peace and prosperity” that defined much of the western world in the 1990s.
On November 4th 1993 Chretien was sworn in as Canada's 20th Prime Minister. He appointed his strongest opponent in the leadership race, Paul Martin, as the Minister of Finance and like the Clinton administration in the U.S. made deficit reduction job one.
Jan 21, 2014 · Back in the early eighties, during the back-and-forth over patriating the Constitution, Jean Chrétien is said to have walked into Buckingham Palace and been greeted by the Queen with a cheery...
