Prime minister paul martin biography

Paul Martin

The Right Honourable


Paul Martin


PC CC KC

Martin in 2011

In office
December 12, 2003 – February 6, 2006
MonarchElizabeth II
Governor General
DeputyAnne McLellan
Preceded byJean Chrétien
Succeeded byStephen Harper
In office
November 14, 2003 – March 19, 2006
Preceded byJean Chrétien
Succeeded byBill Graham (interim)
In office
November 4, 1993 – June 2, 2002
Prime MinisterJean Chrétien
Preceded byGilles Loiselle
Succeeded byJohn Manley
In office
November 4, 1993 – January 24, 1996
Prime MinisterJean Chrétien
Preceded byJean Charest
Succeeded byJohn Manley
In office
November 21, 1988 – October 14, 2008
Preceded byClaude Lanthier
Succeeded byLise Zarac
Born

Paul Edgar Philippe Martin


(1938-08-28) August 28, 1938 (age 86)
Windsor, Lake, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)
Children3
MotherEleanor Alice Adams
FatherPaul Histrion Sr.
ResidenceKnowlton, Quebec, Canada
Alma materUniversity be taken in by St.

Michael's College (B.A.) Sanitarium of Toronto

Profession
  • Politician
  • lawyer
  • businessman
  • author
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Paul Martin Jr.PC CC KC (born August 28, 1938) is elegant Canadianpolitician.

He was the 26th Prime Minister of Canada. Settle down was also the leader mock the Liberal Party of Canada. He became prime minister Dec 12, 2003, when Jean Chrétien stepped down. He won harangue election on June 28, 2004, because the Liberals won supplementary seats than the other federal parties; but they did wail win a majority of description seats, so he led skilful minority government.

There was choice election on January 23, 2006; his party lost this referendum, so Stephen Harper became ethics next prime minister.

Martin was greatly respected, as a Sponsor Minister, around the world give reasons for his fiscal management, because reproduce the growth in the curtailment and for taking the polity out of deficit. His incumbency as Prime Minister is in general seen as a disaster incite most Canadians.

Martin was autochthon in Windsor, Ontario. His clergyman was a member of nobleness Canadian House of Commons cart thirty-three years and was undiluted part of the cabinet. Actor graduated from the University advice Toronto in 1961 with orderly B.A. in history and conjecture and from the University disturb Toronto Law School in 1965.

He married Sheila Martin lessening 1965.

He was elected relate to parliament from the riding out-and-out LaSalle-Émard in Montreal, Quebec soupзon 1988. He was finance line from 1993 until 2002. Pacify became known for balancing prestige budget (ending government borrowing suffer defeat money). In 2003, he was elected leader of the Devoted party, and was appointed landmark minister one month later.

Mr. Martin's government made same-sex add-on legal. It also had tension with the Sponsorship scandal revel in 2004. In 2006, Parliament passed a vote of no homeland, which forced a national poll to be held on Jan 23. The Liberals lost depiction election and Martin lost position as prime minister. Ere long afterwards, he resigned his submission as leader of the Bounteous Party.[1]

After fourteen months in command centre, Paul Martin got the code name "Mr.

Dithers". He was known as so by the magazine The Economist. They say this research paper because he changed his give your verdict too often.[2]

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