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			<td></td><td>Sir John A. Macdonald (again)</td>
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	<td>~~11.~~ ]</td>		<td></td><td>Arthur Meighen (again)</td>
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			<td></td><td>William Lyon Mackenzie King (again)</td>
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			<td></td><td>William Lyon Mackenzie King (again)</td>
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	<td>~~17.~~ ]</td>		<td></td><td>Pierre Elliott Trudeau (again)</td>
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The Prime Minister of Canada is the head of the Canadian government is the leader of the political party with the most seats in Canadian House of Commons. As Prime Minister one has the right to the title of Right Honourable. In the early years, it was tradition that the British Monarch bestow a knighthood on any Canadian Prime Minister. As such, several carry the prefix "Sir" before their name. It is now illegal for a Canadian citizen to accept any British title.

The Prime Minister may be any Canadian citizen of voting age (18). As for all party leaders, it is not legally required, but customary, for the prime minister to be a sitting member of the House of Commons. (If the Prime Minister should fail to win his or her seat, a junior MP in a safe seat would typically resign to permit a by-election to elect the Prime Minister to that seat.)

A Prime Minister's elected term is for a maximum of 5 years, however he has the power to call an election for every seat in the House (a general election) at any time. By custom, elections are called 3.5 to 5 years after the previous election, when a majority government is in power, or as a de facto referendum if a major issue is at hand (the last of these being the 1988 election, which revolved around free trade with the United States).

In recent years there has been a trend towards calling elections in even less than 3.5 years if the government in power believes the conditions are right for another win, but this is considered unfair play in some quarters. If a minority government is in power, a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons may lead to a quick election (9 months in the case of the most recent Canadian minority government, the Clark government of 1979-1980).

In contrast to the British government in which members of parliament have long tenure but Prime Ministers have relatively short tenures, the Canadian Prime Minister typically has a long tenure except in cases where there is a minority government.

The Prime Ministers of Canada

1.	Sir John A. Macdonald	July 1 1867 - November 5 1873
2.	Alexander Mackenzie	November 7 1873 - October 8 1878
	Sir John A. Macdonald (again)	October 17 1878 - June 6 1891
3.	Sir John Abbott	June 16 1891 - November 24 1892
4.	Sir John Thompson	December 5 1892 - December 12 1894
5.	Sir Mackenzie Bowell	December 21 1894 - April 27 1896
6.	Sir Charles Tupper	May 1 1896 - July 8 1896
7.	Sir Wilfrid Laurier	July 11 1896 - October 7 1911
8.	Sir Robert Laird Borden	October 10 1911 - July 10 1920
9.	Arthur Meighen	July 10 1920 - December 29 1921, June 29 1926 - September 25 1926
10.	William Lyon Mackenzie King	December 29 1921 - June 28 1926, September 25 1926 - August 7 1930, October 23 1935 - November 15 1948
	Arthur Meighen (again)	June 29 1926 - September 25 1926
	William Lyon Mackenzie King (again)	September 25 1926 - August 7 1930
11.	Richard Bedford Bennett	August 7 1930 - October 23 1935
	William Lyon Mackenzie King (again)	October 23 1935 - November 15 1948
12.	Louis Saint Laurent	November 15 1948 - June 21 1957
13.	John Diefenbaker	June 21 1957 - April 22 1963
14.	Lester B. Pearson	April 22 1963 - April 20 1968
15.	Pierre Elliott Trudeau	April 20 1968 - June 3 1979, March 3 1980 - June 30 1984
16.	Joe Clark	June 4 1979 - March 2 1980
	Pierre Elliott Trudeau (again)	March 3 1980 - June 30 1984
17.	John Napier Turner	June 30 1984 - September 17 1984
18.	Brian Mulroney	September 17 1984 - June 25 1993
19.	Kim Campbell	June 25 1993 - November 4 1993
20.	Jean Chrétien	November 4 1993 - present

Other lists of first ministers:
Alberta - B.C. - Manitoba - N.B. - Nfld.-Lab. - N.S. - Ontario - P.E.I. - Quebec - Sask. - Yukon - N.W.T. -Nunavut

See other lists of incumbents