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Clark, Joe
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Clark, Joe (Charles Joseph Clark), 1939–, prime minister of Canada (1979–80), b. High River, Alta. He entered the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta in 1972 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative party in 1976. In the 1979 elections he led his party to victory and briefly replaced Pierre Trudeau Trudeau, Pierre Elliott (Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau) , 1919–2000, prime minister of Canada (1968–79, 1980–84), b. Montreal. He attended the Univ.
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 as prime minister. His election represented the new political importance of W Canada, especially oil-rich Alberta. Brian Mulroney Mulroney, Brian (Martin Brian Mulroney) , 1939–, Canadian prime minister (1984–93). Raised in Quebec in a working class family, Mulroney was a successful bilingual lawyer who became active in provincial politics in the 1970s.
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 replaced him as party leader in 1983. Clark served as external affairs minister (1984–91) and constitutional affairs minister (1991–93) under Mulroney. Clark left politics in 1993; UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali appointed him special UN representative for Cyprus. In 1998, Clark again became leader of the Progressive Conservatives, who faced a strong challenge on the right from the Reform party (now the Canadian Alliance Canadian Alliance, former Canadian political party that had its origins in the

Reform party of Canada, which was founded in 1987 in Winnipeg, Man., as a W Canada–based conservative alternative to the Progressive Conservative party.
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), and in 2000 he was elected to parliament from Nova Scotia. Clark resigned as party leader in 2003, and became an independent later that year when the party joined the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative party of Canada. He retired in 2004.


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The report, written by inspector Joe Clark, backed parents' high evaluation of the school.
It was more great team play that lead to Hepworth's final goal, with Joe Clark setting up Max Toothill.
While attending a mediators conference in Oslo, Iacovou and Nami held a working breakfast with former UN Special Representative for Cyprus Michael Moller, Peruvian diplomat Alvaro de Soto, who mediated the failed Annan plan in 2004, and two other former UN envoys for Cyprus, Joe Clark and Sir Kieran Prendergast.
 
 
 
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