Heads of States and of Governments who have addressed Joint Sessions of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada
Note: Although most Heads of State address joint sessions of Parliament, there are exceptions. For example, on May 7, 1941, the Right Honorable R.G. Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed the House of Commons (House of Commons Debates, May 7, 1941, pp. 2629-2632) and on August 25, 1943, Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, addressed Members of the Senate, the House of Commons and the general public outside the Chambers (House of Commons Debates, January 25, 1944, pp. 5436-5438).
Source: This compilation was produced from information supplied by the Journals Branch of the House of Commons. The page references indicate where the speeches delivered by the dignitaries can be found in the House of Commons Debates.
| Date | Name | Title | Hansard |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 22, 2006 | Hamid Karzai | Afghanistan President | pp.3153-3159 |
| May 18, 2006 | Hon. John Howard | P.M. of Australia | pp. 1579-1984 |
| October 25, 2004 | His Excellency Vicente Fox | President of the United States of Mexico | pp. 819-825 (Debates of Oct. 26, 2004) |
| February 22, 2001 | Rt. Hon. Tony Blair | P.M. of the U.K. of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | pp. 1082-1087 |
| April 29, 1999 | Václav Havel | President of the Czech Republic | pp. 14519-14525 |
| September 24, 1998 | Nelson Mandela | President of the Republic of South Africa | pp. 8380-8384 |
| June 11, 1996 | His Excellency Ernesto Zedillo | President of Mexico | pp. 3697-3703 |
| February 23, 1995 | Bill Clinton | U.S. President | pp. 10036-10043 (Debates of Feb. 24, 1995) |
| June 19, 1992 | His Excellency Boris Yeltsin | President of the Federation of Russia | pp. 12479-12488 |
| April 8, 1991 | His Excellency Carlos Salinas de Gortari | President of Mexico | pp. 19176-19184 |
| October 11, 1989 | His Majesty King Hussein Ibn Talal | King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan | pp. 4570-4574 |
| June 27, 1989 | Chaim Herzog | President of the State of Israel | pp. 3795-3799 |
| June 22, 1988 | Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher | P.M. of the U.K. of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | pp. 16734-16739 |
| June 16, 1988 | Dr. Helmut Kohl | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany | pp. 16526-16532 |
| May 10, 1988 | Her Majesty Queen Beatrix | Queen of the Netherlands | pp. 15328-15331 |
| May 25, 1987 | His Excellency François Mitterrand | President of the French Republic | pp. 6428-6434 |
| April 6, 1987 | Ronald Wilson Reagan | U.S. President | pp. 4960-4966 |
| January 13, 1986 | His Excellency Yasuhiro Nakasone | P.M. of Japan | pp. 9722-9727 |
| May 8, 1984 | His Excellency Miguel de la Madrid | President of Mexico | pp. 3535-3539 |
| January 17, 1984 | His Excellency Zhao Ziyang | Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China | pp. 511-513 |
| September 26, 1983 | Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher | P.M. of Great Britain | pp. 27474-27479 |
| March 11, 1981 | Ronald Wilson Reagan | U.S. President | pp. 8153-8158 |
| May 26, 1980 | His Excellency Jose Lopez Portillo | President of Mexico | pp. 1420-1422 |
| May 5, 1980 | His Excellency Masayoshi Ohira | P.M. of Japan | pp. 733-735 |
| October 18, 1977 | Her Majesty the Queen | (Speech from the throne) | pp. 1-3 |
| June 19, 1973 | Madam Indira Gandhi | P.M. of India | pp. 4928-4931 |
| March 30, 1973 | Luis Echeverria | Constitutional President of United Mexican States | pp. 2799-2804 |
| April 14, 1972 | Richard M. Nixon | U.S. President | pp. 1327-1330 |
| July 1st, 1967 | Her Majesty the Queen | pp. 2250-2251 (Debates of July 4, 1967) | |
| May 17, 1961 | John F. Kennedy | U.S. President | pp. 4962-4965 |
| July 21, 1958 | Hon. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah | P.M. of Ghana | pp. 2515-2517 |
| July 9, 1958 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | U.S. President | pp. 2082-2086 |
| June 13, 1958 | Rt. Hon. Harold Macmillan | P.M. of the United Kingdom | pp. 1150-1152 |
| June 2, 1958 | Professor Theodor Heuss | President of Federal Republic of Germany | pp. 772-773 |
| October 14, 1957 | Her Majesty the Queen | (Speech from the throne) | pp. 5-6 |
| March 4, 1957 | His Excellency Guy Mollet | Premier of France | pp. 1868-1872 |
| June 5, 1956 | His Excellency Dr. Sukarno | Indonesian President | pp. 4777-4781 |
| March 5, 1956 | His Excellency Giovanni Gronchi | Italian President | pp. 1830-1832 |
| February 6, 1956 | Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Eden | P.M. of Great Britain | pp. 906-908 |
| November 14, 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | U.S. President | pp. 23-28 |
| April 5, 1951 | Vincent Auriol | French Republic President | pp. 1664-1667 |
| May 31, 1950 | Hon. Liaquat Ali Khan | P.M. of Pakistan | pp. 3042-3044 |
| October 24, 1949 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru | P.M. of India | pp. 1103-1105 |
| June 11, 1947 | Harry S. Truman | U.S. President | pp. 4062-4064 |
| November 19, 1945 | Rt. Hon. Clement R. Attlee | P.M. of Great Britain | pp. 2276-2280 |
| June 30, 1944 | Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser | P.M. of New Zealand | pp. 4421-4426 |
| June 1st, 1944 | Rt. Hon. John C. Curtin | P.M. of Australia | pp. 3453-3460 |
| June 3, 1943 | Eduard Benes | Czechoslovakian President | pp. 3328-3333 |
| December 30, 1941 | Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill | P.M. of Great Britain | pp. 4478-4482 |
| May 19, 1939 | His Majesty the King | pp. 4322-4323 |
