Joe Who: Canada is a better place for his service

Joe Clark's legacy is much more than the victory over a man no other Tory vanquished.

KINGSTON—Thirty years ago Joe Clark did the impossible—he beat Pierre Trudeau in the general election held May 22, 1979, and became Canada's 16th prime minister.

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