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...Some were tiny and served in bunches like cherries and some were giant such as the Bon Chrétien d’Hiver, which sold for five shillings apiece during the 17th century (maybe £30 in today’s money)....
...Mr Champagne is a protégé and friend of former prime minister Jean Chrétien....
...Canada’s position was also undermined by reports of a proposal being floated by former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien this summer that Canada should cancel the extradition process in order to curry...
...Jean Chrétien, then prime minister, invoked a 1919 resolution to argue that the mogul’s Canadian nationality disqualified him from accepting a British title, leading Lord Black to renounce his Canadian passport...
...He is also conscious of the dictum of former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien: “If you retreat on a steep slope, you fall.”...
...Jacques Chirac of France, Jean Chrétien of Canada and Japan’s Junichiro Koizumi are fading from memory. Mr Putin alone remains at the helm, with domestic approval ratings above 80 per cent....
...With just days to go until the vote, which the No side won by just a percentage point, the Queen fell victim to a hoax by a Canadian radio DJ who called the palace pretending to be Jean Chrétien, the Canadian...
...But a key reason Canadian banks and the financial system held up through the crisis is that Paul Martin, with the support of Jean Chrétien, didn’t let them merge and get too big....
...Yet Jean Chrétien, Canada’s prime minister in 1995, recently admonished UK ministers for allowing Scotland’s referendum to be decided by simple majority....
...According to “The Canadian Establishment”, his close friends have included former prime ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who died in September 2000, and Jean Chrétien....
...Last night, politicians, government officials and a smattering of journalists gathered in the ornate surrounds of the Scotland Office to hear Jean Chrétien, the former Canadian PM, give his view on referendums...
...Speaking at the Scotland Office on Wednesday night, Jean Chrétien told an audience of ministers and senior officials they should not have allowed the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence to be decided...
...Newcomers have been loyal Liberal supporters, in gratitude to Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien, the former prime ministers who opened the door to large-scale family reunification....
...More to the left, Canada’s Jean Chrétien customarily reverted to being the “little guy from Shawinigan”, despite leading three straight majority governments....
...Michael Coates, Hill & Knowlton Canada boss, advised PM Stephen Harper in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections, while consulting firm Prospectus’ Bruce Hartley was a personal assistant to ex-PM Jean Chrétien...
...Mr Martin became finance minister in 1993 after Canada’s Liberal party, led by Jean Chrétien, ousted the Conservatives in a general election....
...Jean Chrétien, the former Canadian prime minister, and an adviser of ACDL, played a key role in putting the Vietnam project together, Mr Nathan said....
...In Canada, once Jean Chrétien’s government had announced its intention to close the deficit, the first budget appeared nine months later – and that in a smaller economy where central government controls...
...Mr Martin almost resigned over prime minister Jean Chrétien’s refusal to allow pension reforms in 1995, but the two managed to reach a compromise....
...And in fact, I recall sharing this story with Bush and [Jean] Chrétien at the G8 summit and Chrétien said, but I have lived on that all my life and here I am at the ripe age of almost 70 to tell it....
...Mr Martin had waited in the wings for a decade, an impatient understudy to the more charismatic Jean Chrétien. He made his political reputation as a competent guardian of the nation’s finances....
...When he was honoured with a peerage in 1999 but prevented from accepting it by Jean Chrétien, then the Canadian prime minister, the publisher renounced his Canadian citizenship to become Lord Black of Crossharbour...
...These critics fear that Mr Ignatieff would polarise the party, prolonging the still-simmering feud between supporters of Mr Martin and his long-serving predecessor, Jean Chrétien....
...In dealing with their southern neighbour, Canadian leaders face the challenge of forging a relationship that is close, but not cosy, as Jean Chrétien, a former Liberal prime minister, put it....
...Back in 2001, the Canadian government – headed by Jean Chrétien’s Liberals – informed Black that he could not accept a peerage in Britain while remaining a Canadian citizen....
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