John Turner

Biography

Born with Richmond, Surrey, England, he emigrated with the Canada in 1932. He studied with the Université of the Colombia-British (B.A. Honors), the Université Oxford, (recipient of a Bourse Rhodos, B.A., laid off in civil law), and the Université of Paris (the Sorbonne).

He married in 1963 with Geills McCrae Kilgour (born in 1937); they have a girl and three wire. Turner practiced the right to Montreal, Quebec before being elected with the Parlement of Canada in 1962. It served in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Lester Pearson in various posts of minister. When Pearson was withdrawn, Turner was candidate to succeed to him, and it finished with the third rank at convention Libérale in 1968, at the time of the vctoire of Pierre Trudeau. Turner was used with the Cabinet of Trudeau as minister of justice during the Crise as October and then was Minister for Finance until his resignation in 1975.

From 1975 to 1984, Turner worked as lawyer with Bay Street. When Pierre Trudeau resigned as a liberal chief in 1979, Turner announced that he would not be candidate for the cheffery of the liberal party.

At the time of the second resignation of the Trudeau Prime Minister in 1984, John Turner presented himself again and was elected chief of the party, in front of Jean Chrétien, at Libérale convention of June 1984.

John Turner was Prime Minister of Canada during a little more than 2 months and half.

He was demolishes by the Parti progressist-conservative of Brian Mulroney at the time of the Canadian federal election of 1984, collecting only one forty seats. The turning point of the countryside was without any doubt the debate of the chiefs in the middle of the election, unfavourable in Turner.

After the election, it became Chef of the opposition, and again lost against Brian Mulroney at the time of the Canadian federal election of 1988. Jean Chrétien resigned of the Parliament in 1985, and carried out long and bitter fight to take seat against Turner and finally succeeded when Turner resigned as chief of the party in 1990.

John Turner is recognized in the Canadian history like having had the shortest mandate as Prime Minister, that is to say only a little more than 70 days.

Of catholic confession, John Turner expressed his party taken in favor of the abortion. The pope Benoît XVI declared on this subject that such political representatives had excommunicated themselves of the Church.

External bond

federal political Experiment — Library of the Parliament

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