“I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.”

— Jean Chrétien

Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 211

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20th Prime Minister of Canada 1934

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