8 hours agoFormer Canadian Prime Minister John Turner dies at 91 years of age
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(6 years ago)John Turner, a politician of the Liberal Party, who served as justice minister, finance minister, and briefly as prime minister of Canada, has died at the age of 91. Mark Kealey, former assistant of the late politician, speaking on behalf of the Turner family, said the former minister and prime minister died while in [...]
Mark Kealey, former aide to the late politician, speaking on behalf of the Turner family, said the former minister and prime minister died while asleep at his home in Toronto on Friday evening.
Turner had failed to experience the greatest expectations of his early career because he served as prime minister for just 79 days in 1988 after a long, difficult rise to that position, writes The Guardian, broadcast the Express.
Turner had first graduated from British Columbia University in 1949 and then acquired a scholarship at Oxford University. After studying justice, he went to Paris for a doctorate at the University of Srobona.
As justice minister from 1968 to 1972, he proposed a national legal assistance system, which he cherished, and established the federal court among other reforms. In his 60 ' s, he defended the de discriminatedness of homosexuality and abortion.
In the 1988 elections, he lost the race to British Mulroyn in connection with the free trade agreement between Canada and the United States, which Turner strongly opposed.
