* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

In their 1999 study of the Prime Ministers of Canada, which included the results of a survey of Canadian historians, J. L.

* List of Canadian Prime Ministers

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

R. B. Bennett, 11th Canadian Prime Minister and graduate of Dalhousie Law School.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.

* 1979 – The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

Future Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson is at right front.

On April 15, 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper became the first Canadian head of government to address the Jamaican parliament.

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

* 1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada ; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.

* 1934 – Jean Chrétien, Canadian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada

* 1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1947 )

Macdonald served 19 years as Canadian Prime Minister ; only William Lyon Mackenzie King served longer.

Macdonald was designated as the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served in that capacity for most of the remainder of his life, losing office for five years in the 1870s over the Pacific Scandal ( corruption in the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway ).

* 1874 – Arthur Meighen, Canadian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1960 )

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

The CRTC reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for the Broadcasting Act, and has an informal relationship with Industry Canada, which is responsible for the Telecommunications Act.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

The Minister of National Defence Art Eggleton advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to authorize more than 100 Canadian Forces members serving on military exchange programs in the United States and other countries to participate in U. S. operations in Afghanistan.

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop ( b. 1924 )

* 1918 – Jean Marchand, Canadian trade unionist and politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1935 – Jean Pelletier, Canadian political operative

* 1939 – Jean Beaudin, Canadian film director and screenwriter

* 1916 – Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal ( d. 1999 )

Canadian police arrested Oriel Jean, Aristide's security chief and one of his most trusted friends, for money laundering.

* 1913 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general ( d. 1996 )

* 1958 – Jean Charest, Canadian politician

* 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician ( d. 2002 )

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

St. Laurent was ranked # 4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers ( through Jean Chrétien ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.

* 1927 – Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group

* 1938 – Jean Garon, Canadian economist and politician

* 1956 – Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and broadcaster

Its turf-cutting ceremony was carried out on 18 February 2002 by the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, and it was officially opened on 29 April 2005.

Bennett was ranked # 12 by a survey of Canadian historians out of the then 20 Prime Ministers of Canada through Jean Chrétien.

* 1921 – A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian businessman and lawyer

* 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L ' Arche

" Canadian television covers a memorial service on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, which Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, and U. S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci presided over, and more than 100, 000 people attended.