Prime Ministers

A prime minister is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not the head of state of their respective state nor a monarch; rather the prime minister is the head of government, serving typically under a monarch in a hybrid of aristocratic and democratic government forms or a president in a republican form of government. In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of government and head …

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Publications

UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …

dressing the legacy of colonialism.”5 Canadian prime ministers have made statements stressing Canada’s role


UBC: UBC Press · 1 May 2024 English

Korean War literature from a Canadian perspective has been sparse, until now. Every reader of Canada and the Korean War will learn about an aspect of the Korean War that …

allies. In late-1940s meetings of Commonwealth prime ministers, which included representatives from the newAlignment


CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 29 April 2024 English

4 DECLINE AND FALL Trends in family formation and fertility in Canada since 2001 The nature and impact of broader social and cultural trends is hard to measure, but it …

Cited by five present and former Canadian Prime Ministers, as well as by David Cameron, then British


CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 29 April 2024 English

4 DECLINE AND FALL Trends in family formation and fertility in Canada since 2001 The nature and impact of broader social and cultural trends is hard to measure, but it …

Cited by five present and former Canadian Prime Ministers, as well as by David Cameron, then British


Fraser Institute · 11 April 2024 English

has been lower since 2015 than it has been under any of Canada’s previous four long-serving prime ministers. Comparative analyses across time or countries that seek to use GDP to compare changes in productivity

any of Canada’s previous four long-serving prime ministers. ● Comparative analyses across time or countries tenures of Canada’s last five long-serving Prime Ministers.1 This metric shows that the rate of economic because 1 The briefly seated governments of Prime Ministers Turner and Campbell are excluded from this rates under Canada’s last five long- serving prime ministers. GDP Growth Unadjusted for Population Change—a


Fraser Institute · 11 April 2024 English

has been lower since 2015 than it has been under any of Canada’s previous four long-serving prime ministers. Comparative analyses across time or countries that seek to use GDP to compare changes in productivity


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 April 2024 English

The Math The Annual Two-Per-Cent-of-GDP Defence Spending Pledge and its Management Avoiding the Boom-Bust Cycle Envisioning a Canadian Military Funded at Two Per Cent of GDP Multiple Missions Capability Reserve …

of government, including our own respective prime ministers, adopted the two-per-cent spending target as


Wilson Center Canada · 18 March 2024 English

Nonetheless it gained 4.9% of the vote, and while it had a range of other issues—opposition to “radical gender ideology,” support for oil pipelines, liberalization of gun laws and protecting …

current regime was largely created under Liberal Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre-Elliott Trudeau.


DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 March 2024 English

A fully updated edition of the first-ever primer on Canada’s Constitution — for anyone who wants to understand the supreme law of the land.The Canadian Constitution makes Canada’s Constitution readily …

governor general. Also includes all for- mer prime ministers and former ministers, the chief justice of


Fraser Institute · 12 March 2024 English

Business subsidies delivered through government spending since 1961 came with significant costs to Canadian taxpayers. In 2019, provincial business subsidies reached $27.0 billion ($2022). This represents the single largest year …

than 250 studies and commentaries, including Prime Ministers and Government Spending: 2020 Edition, Examining Examining Federal Debt in Canada by Prime Ministers since Confederation 2020, and Alberta’s Lost Advantage


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