There have been eight. Since the creation of the Order of Canada on July 1, 1967, only two former Prime Ministers have not received it. John Diefenbaker was still an MP at the time of his death in 1979; sitting politicians are ineligible for the honour. Paul Martin stepped down as an MP in 2008; [...]
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How many PMs have received the Order of Canada?
Posted in Campbell, Chrétien, Clark, Diefenbaker, Martin, Mulroney, Pearson, St. Laurent, Trudeau, Turner, tagged Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, John Diefenbaker, John Turner, Kim Campbell, Lester B. Pearson, Louis St. Laurent, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau on December 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Which Prime Ministers were bilingual?
Posted in Borden, Chrétien, Clark, Harper, Laurier, Martin, Mulroney, St. Laurent, Trudeau, tagged Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Louis St. Laurent, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, Robert Borden, Stephen Harper, Wilfrid Laurier on November 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Realistically, there were eight. Four of them were francophones: Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien. Four were English: Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper. The PM with the broadest facility for languages was English-speaking Sir Robert Borden who had a working knowledge of French, German, Greek and [...]
Catholics predominant in past 30 years
Posted in Abbott, Bennett, Borden, Bowell, Campbell, Chrétien, Clark, Diefenbaker, Harper, King, Laurier, Macdonald, Mackenzie, Martin, Meighen, Mulroney, Pearson, St. Laurent, Thompson, Trudeau, Tupper, Turner, tagged Alexander Mackenzie, Arthur Meighen, Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Ministers, Charles Tupper, Gary Schlee, Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, John A. Macdonald, John Abbott, John Diefenbaker, John Thompson, John Turner, Kim Campbell, Lester B. Pearson, Louis St. Laurent, Mackenzie Bowell, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, R.B. Bennett, Robert Borden, Stephen Harper, Wilfrid Laurier, William Lyon Mackenzie King on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Five of the seven Prime Ministers still living are Roman Catholics. Although, historically, most Catholic leaders tended to be French Canadians, that profile began to disappear by the late 1970s. Of the five living Catholic PMs — Joe Clark, John Turner, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin — only one is French Canadian. For [...]
Job preparation is the law
Posted in Abbott, Bennett, Borden, Campbell, Chrétien, Diefenbaker, Laurier, Macdonald, Martin, Meighen, Mulroney, St. Laurent, Thompson, Trudeau, Turner, tagged Arthur Meighen, Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Jean Chrétien, John A. Macdonald, John Abbott, John Diefenbaker, John Thompson, John Turner, Kim Campbell, Louis St. Laurent, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, R.B. Bennett, Robert Borden, Wilfrid Laurier on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interested in being the Canadian Prime Minister? Consider becoming a lawyer. That’s the exactly the kind of job training two-thirds of the country’s leaders had prior to their shift into politics. Prime Ministers called to the bar were Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir John Abbott, Sir John Thompson, Sir WIlfrid Laurier, Sir Robert Borden, Arthur [...]
Quebec garners the most PMs
Posted in Abbott, Chrétien, King, Laurier, Martin, Mulroney, St. Laurent, Trudeau, tagged Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Jean Chrétien, John Abbott, Louis St. Laurent, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, Wilfrid Laurier, William Lyon Mackenzie King on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Seven of Canada’s 22 Prime Ministers have represented Quebec while leading the country (Abbott, Laurier, St. Laurent, Trudeau, Mulroney, Chretien and Martin), making it the most fertile ground for leaders since Confederation. Three provinces have had no Prime Ministers serving in Ottawa (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland), although King was a PEI MP before [...]
Paul Martin Sr. enters King’s cabinet
Posted in King, Martin, tagged Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Paul Martin, William Lyon Mackenzie King on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
1945 — Paul Martin joins William Lyon Mackenzie King‘s cabinet as Secretary of State. His new responsibilities make little impact on his six-year-old son, Paul Martin, Jr. It has taken him 10 years as an MP to get the nod for a cabinet seat. In 1988, his son, a successful businessman, makes the leap from [...]
A Harper minority replaces the Martin minority
Posted in Campbell, Harper, Martin, tagged Canadian election, Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Kim Campbell, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
2006 — The Conservative party, led by Stephen Harper, defeats the Liberals of Prime Minister Paul Martin, but Canada will still be saddled with a minority government. Both men are re-elected in their respective ridings: Calgary Southwest and La Salle-Émard. The television coverage of the 39th federal election includes an interview on CBC with former [...]
Canada Steamship Lines gets a new director
Posted in Martin, tagged Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Paul Martin on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1970 –Maurice Strong, CEO of Power Corporation in Montreal, appoints his 32-year-old executive assistant, Paul Martin, to the board of directors of Canada Steamship Lines, a Power subsidiary. It’s the beginning a long relationship. CSL is not only a Great Lakes shipping firm, but also oversees Power Corp’s investment portfolio. Within three years, Martin becomes [...]
Campbell joins 17 other PMs in the corridor
Posted in Campbell, Martin, tagged Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Kim Campbell, Paul Martin on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2004 — Kim Campbell becomes the 18th Prime Minister to have a portrait unveiled in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Painted by David Goatley of British Columbia, the Campbell canvas shows the first female Prime Minister surrounded by legal, academic and First Nations robes — all symbols of parts of her career. Campbell arrives [...]
No-confidence vote ends Martin government
Posted in Harper, Martin, tagged Canadian Prime Ministers, Gary Schlee, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2005 — For the first time in Canadian history, a federal government is defeated in a straight no-confidence vote. The vote wasn’t linked to any legislation. It was simply a case of the three opposition parties voting against the Liberal minority government of Paul Martin. The vote seemed inevitable after Jack Layton, leader of the [...]
