Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC KC AdE (French: [ʒɑ̃ kʁetsjẽɪ̯̃]; born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

Jan 12, 2025 · Jean Chrétien, who was Canada’s prime minister from 1993 to 2003, joined a chorus of officials from the northern U.S. neighbor who say Trump’s remarks are no longer a joke and may undermine America’s closest ally.

Jan 12, 2025 · 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.

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. As Prime Minister, he led the federal government to its first surplus in nearly 30 years.

Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien responded in an open letter published Saturday morning to threats against Canada by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien is a Canadian lawyer, politician and a former Prime Minister of Canada. This biography profiles his childhood, family, personal life, political career, reforms, achievements, and other facts.

Jan 11, 2025 · Former prime minister Jean Chrétien writes: Mr. Trump has accomplished one thing – he has unified Canadians more than we have been ever before! Mr. Chrétien greets people anxious to shake his...

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien PC OM CC KC (born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian politician. He was the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003 and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 2003.

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.

May 14, 2018 · Jean Chr é tien was elected ten times to Canada's House of Commons, held almost every major cabinet office, and in October 1993 was elected as his nation's twentieth prime minister. Joseph-Jacques-Jean Chr é tien was born on January 11, 1934, in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada.