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How Did Jean Chreten Improve Canada

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Prime Ministers have one of the hardest and most stressful jobs in the world. They need to take care of the people of a country and to make them happy at all times. Prime Ministers need to have really good leadership skills and need to make the best decisions for the country. If one Prime Minister has failed to accomplish to improve a country, someone else has to be elected. But for Jean Chretien, this has not been the case.

Jean Chretien was one of Canada's most important people in its history. He improved Canada's economy. He was mostly famous for being Canada's 20th Prime Minister for 10 years. Jean Chretien is from Shawinigan, Canada and was born on January 11, 1934. He studied in Laval University of Quebec (Quebec City) and studied law. He is a married man and helped Canada in one of its hardest times. …show more content…

Around 1990, Chretien became the leader of the Liberal party and went back to the House of Commons to help out New Brunswick with their "Beauséjour" project. Also, he improved Canada's state in economy by getting rid of deficit and having more savings by the government to improve Canada for five straight years. Additionally, he supported war but he wouldn't send troops to Iraq because of the United Nations resolution.

Back in 2001, Canada was dependant with United States of America. When America got attacked by the terrorist group Al Queda, Chretien was worried because it's been the first time since World War 2 that the American border has been a huge problem. It was a problem because Canada needed the American exports. Chretien wanted to help America but the Canadian troops had very little recourses and a weak army. But in 2002, Canada sent their troops to help the Americans in Afghanistan. But Chretien refused to send troops to the Iraq war without Authorization from the UN Security

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