Jean Chrétien is perhaps best known for mangling the English language, not in the sense that Dion, who fractures syntax and abuses grammar, but more on the level of Bush. He is no W though. He was elected to Parliament for the first time in 1963 and at the time spoke no English and was a force to be reckoned with finally becoming PM in the ‘90s. Malapropisms aside, he is bilingually bad, making the same kind of gaffes in both official languages, he was brave enough to say what many of us felt: that to a certain extent we brought on 9/11 ourselves. He is no fool. He described how they got out of a previous constitutional crisis, quite aptly, "You don't get excited. You don't spin your wheels.....You just go forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards - and eventually you're back on the road."
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