However, "Le petit gars de Shawinigan- (Little guy from Shawinigan, as he became known) has been elected as a Member of Parliament 11 times in total. ... Jean Chrétien was first elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1963 as a backbencher without a portfolio, representing the constituency of St. ... Under Jean Chrétien's leadership, unemployment levels in Canada are at an all time low. ... Chrétien was Pierre Trudeau's right hand man during the creation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and helped to confidently integrate the Charter into Canadi...

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a politician, a lawyer, a writer and one of Canada's greatest prime ministers whom had the idea of Canada's independence and acted on it. ... After running for the Liberals in the 1965 federal election, Trudeau was elected to Parliament and soon was appointed as a parliament secretary to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. ... Trudeau is sworn in again as PM of Canada on February the 18th in 1980. ... The Partition of the Canada Constitution was created in 1982, which made Canada completely independent from other countries around the Wor...

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United, most of the time, in their beliefs, they helped Canada reach some of their most significant milestones in the 1970's and 1980's. Together, they changed Canada in ways people thought could never happen. ... The Charter stipulated the fundamental freedoms and rights that all Canadian citizens have (Internet 13). ... The Constitutional Act had been widely accepted in much of English-speaking Canada, but that was not the case in Québec. ... A survey released October 30, 2003 by Opinion Canada (a CRIC division) reveals that Canadians want the Constitution left alone f...

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