Canadian ex-PM Jean Chrétien ,91, seeks to help Liberals match his 1993 landslide victory by employing his famous Shawinigan Handshake to the Orange Menace.

Jean introduces Donald to the Shawinigan Handshake
“I was enraged when Trump treated our Prime Minister like a nobody.We are united against threats of annexation by President Donald Trump. I have witnessed many challenges in my lifetime, and we have always overcome them. This time will be no different, as Canadians will choose the most reliable political institution in the Western world: the Liberal Party of Canada.”
“Trump has helped us so much for Canadian unity that I will propose him for the Order of Canada,” he said at a recent event in Quebec City, referring to the country’s highest honour. “But they told me that in Canada, you can’t give the Order of Canada to someone who has a criminal record.”




Court Painter & painting “Jean introduces Donald to the Shawinigan Handshake”
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”.