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Joe Clark
Charles Joseph Clark is a Canadian businessman, writer, and retired politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980. He served as leader of the Official Opposition from 1976 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1983 and led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1976 to 1983, and again from 1998 to 2003.
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culture · Prime Minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980 · politician · diplomat · journalist · lawyer · lecturer · also Joe Clark, Charles Joseph Clark, Clark
Born 5 June 1939 · Q128574
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2004· 1 entry
Clark's lifetime achievements were recognized with the Award for Excellence in the Cause of Parliamentary Democracy by Canada's Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy
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2003· 4 entries
The day that the PC Party and the Canadian Alliance were dissolved and the new Conservative Party of Canada registered, Clark was one of three MPs—the other two were André Bachand and John Herron—to announce that they wo
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To form the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, Clark sat as an independent Progressive Conservative
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2003–2004).
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90% of PC Party delegates voted in favor of a merger with the Canadian Alliance
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2002· 2 entries
At the PC Party's Edmonton policy convention
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Increased the PC caucus to 15 members and fourth place in the Commons
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2001· 1 entry
When several dissident Alliance MPs, the most prominent one being Alliance deputy leader and party matriarch Deborah Grey, left the Alliance caucus
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2000· 3 entries
After the incumbent MP, Scott Brison, stood down in his favour
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2000–2000).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (2000–2003).
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1998· 1 entry
To lead the Progressive Conservatives in their last general election before the party's eventual dissolution, serving his final term in Parliament from 2000 to 2004
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1997· 1 entry
Threatening the PC's 1997 gains in Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces
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1994· 2 entries
Was made a Companion of the Order of Canada
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Wrote the book A Nation Too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada
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1993· 3 entries
That Clark was much more tough and aggressive than past Tory leader Robert Stanfield, noting that those qualities served Clark well in his party winning the 1979 election victory
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Founded his own consulting firm, Joe Clark and Associates, Ltd
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Side-stepping the near annihilation of the PC party in the 1993 election under the leadership of Mulroney's successor Kim Campbell
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1991· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the King's Privy Council for Canada (1991–1993).
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1988· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1988–1993).
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1984· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada (1984–1991).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1984–1988).
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Being the very first developed nation foreign affairs minister to land in previously isolated Ethiopia to lead the Western response to the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; Canada's response was overwhelming, and led the Uni
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1983· 1 entry
After declaring that an endorsement by 66
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1982· 1 entry
Brian Mulroney deliberately appeared at a press conference with Clark to say that he was not seeking the leadership of the PC party, he was in fact conspiring to oust Clark
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1981· 1 entry
During the party's national convention, 33
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1980· 3 entries
Election lost: 1980 federal election.
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Campaign: 1980 federal election.
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1980–1984).
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1979· 7 entries
Election lost: 1979 federal election.
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Until Jerusalem's status could be clarified with Israel's neighbors
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Awarded Canadian Newsmaker of the Year (1979).
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The day before his 40th birthday, Clark was sworn in as Canada's 16th prime minister, steering the first Tory government since the defeat of John Diefenbaker in the 1963 election
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Campaign: 1979 federal election.
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Canada (1979–1980).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1979–1980).
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1974· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1974–1979).
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1973· 1 entry
Clark married law student Maureen McTeer
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1972· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972–1974).
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And won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976
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1939· 2 entries
Born 1939-06-05.
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In High River, Alberta, the son of Grace Roselyn (née Welch) and local newspaper publisher Charles A
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