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Joe Clark and John Turner
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From: The Prime Ministers
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In this chapter, Stewart examines the brief prime ministerships of Joe Clark and John Turner, whose combined time in office totals less than a year. Clark’s 1979–1980 government is noted for the Canadian Caper and the acceptance of 50,000 Vietnamese refugees.
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J.D.M. Stewart
J.D.M. Stewart is a writer, historian, and one of the country’s foremost experts on Canadian prime ministers. His commentary regularly appears in the Globe & Mail, The Hub, and the Literary Review of Canada. His previous book, Being Prime Minister, was a Hill Times Top 100 pick. He has also inspired a generation of students during his thirty-year career teaching history to high school students in Toronto, Montreal, and Panama City. He lives in Toronto.
