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Feb 19, 2021 · This week marks the silver anniversary of the day that Prime Minister Jean Chretien choked and flattened a protester who had confronted him at a Flag Day commemoration in Gatineau, Que....
Shawinigan Handshake is the epithet given to a chokehold executed on February 15, 1996, by Jean Chrétien, then-Prime Minister of Canada, on anti-poverty protester Bill Clennett. The phrase comes from Chrétien's birthplace of Shawinigan, Quebec , as he often styled himself the "little guy from Shawinigan".
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Mar 11, 2009 · 1996 - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien gets tough when confronted by a protester on Flag Day. The National captures the famous 'Shawinigan Handshake' chokehold,...
Nov 17, 2022 · In 1996 on Canada's first Flag Day, Prime Minister Jean Chretien was headed back to his car when he was approached by Bill Clennett, who was at the event pro...
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Sep 23, 2020 · 76.2K subscribers. Subscribed. 197. 21K views 3 years ago. Prime Minister Jean Chretien executed an effective chokehold on some bell-end protester in 1996 and thus was born the legend of the...
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Feb 15, 2016 · News. Insight. The photographer who shot the ‘Shawinigan handshake’. Global TV cameraman Phil Nolan couldn’t quite imagine the shock Jean Chrétien's grasp of a protester would cause. By...
Feb 13, 2018 · One of Canada's most popular living prime ministers, Jean Chretien, had a moment of infamy when he choked a protester to the ground back in 1996. The incident was later dubbed the...