Today in Canada’s Political History: Liberals, Tories, Greens and New Democrats unite in the Commons to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
MPs from all sides of the House put partisanship aside on this date in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen’s reign.“Her Majesty’s life has been the history of Canada,” he said. “She has known personally every prime minister since Mackenzie King who she first met as Princess Elizabeth in London in the 1930s. While it is not known if she met R.B. Bennett, she did meet Arthur Meighen during the 1951 and 1959 Royal tours.
Liberal interim leader Bob Rae, now Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, spoke on behalf of his party. “Those of us who have watched the Queen when she has come to Canada and those of us who have had an opportunity to meet her and speak with her and the members of her family have always been struck, certainly I have, by the enormous sense of intelligent engagement, great affection and deep knowledge that Her Majesty has for this country,” he said.is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon.
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