Heads of States and of Governments who have addressed Joint Sessions of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada

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Heads of States and of Governments who have addressed Joint Sessions

Heads of States and of Governments who have addressed Joint Sessions of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada

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What is a Joint Address?

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.

50 Heads of States and Governments

Date	Name	Title	House of Commons Debates
2006.09.22	Hamid Karzai	Afghanistan President	pp. 3153-3159
2006.05.18	Hon. John Howard	P.M. of Australia	pp. 1579-1984
2004.10.25	His Excellency Vicente Fox	President of the United States of Mexico	pp. 819-825 (Debates of Oct. 26, 2004)
2001.02.22	Rt. Hon. Tony Blair	P.M. of the U.K. of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	pp. 1082-1087
1999.04.29	Václav Havel	President of the Czech Republic	pp. 14519-14525
1998.09.24	Nelson Mandela	President of the Republic of South Africa	pp. 8380-8384
1996.06.11	His Excellency Ernesto Zedillo	President of Mexico	pp. 3697-3703
1995.02.23	Bill Clinton	U.S. President	pp. 10036-10043 (Debates of Feb. 24, 1995)
1992.06.19	His Excellency Boris Yeltsin	President of the Federation of Russia	pp. 12479-12488
1991.04.08	His Excellency Carlos Salinas de Gortari	President of Mexico	pp. 19176-19184
1989.10.11	His Majesty King Hussein Ibn Talal	King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan	pp. 4570-4574
1989.06.27	Chaim Herzog	President of the State of Israel	pp. 3795-3799
1988.06.22	Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher	P.M. of the U.K. of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	pp. 16734-16739
1988.06.16	Dr. Helmut Kohl	Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany	pp. 16526-16532
1988.05.10	Her Majesty Queen Beatrix	Queen of the Netherlands	pp. 15328-15331
1987.05.25	His Excellency François Mitterrand	President of the French Republic	pp. 6428-6434
1987.04.06	Ronald Wilson Reagan	U.S. President	pp. 4960-4966
1986.01.13	His Excellency Yasuhiro Nakasone	P.M. of Japan	pp. 9722-9727
1984.05.08	His Excellency Miguel de la Madrid	President of Mexico	pp. 3535-3539
1984.01.17	His Excellency Zhao Ziyang	Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China	pp. 511-513
1983.09.26	Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher	P.M. of Great Britain	pp. 27474-27479
1981.03.11	Ronald Wilson Reagan	U.S. President	pp. 8153-8158
1980.05.26	His Excellency Jose Lopez Portillo	President of Mexico	pp. 1420-1422
1980.05.05	His Excellency Masayoshi Ohira	P.M. of Japan	pp. 733-735
1977.10.18	Her Majesty the Queen	(Speech from the throne)	pp. 1-3
1973.06.19	Madam Indira Gandhi	P.M. of India	pp. 4928-4931
1973.03.30	Luis Echeverria	Constitutional President of United Mexican States	pp. 2799-2804
1972.04.14	Richard M. Nixon	U.S. President	pp. 1327-1330
1967.07.01	Her Majesty the Queen		pp. 2250-2251 (Debates of July 4, 1967)
1961.05.17	John F. Kennedy	U.S. President	pp. 4962-4965
1958.07.21	Hon. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah	P.M. of Ghana	pp. 2515-2517
1958.07.09	Dwight D. Eisenhower	U.S. President	pp. 2082-2086
1958.06.13	Rt. Hon. Harold Macmillan	P.M. of the United Kingdom	pp. 1150-1152
1958.06.02	Professor Theodor Heuss	President of Federal Republic of Germany	pp. 772-773
1957.10.14	Her Majesty the Queen	(Speech from the throne)	pp. 5-6
1957.03.04	His Excellency Guy Mollet	Premier of France	pp. 1868-1872
1956.06.05	His Excellency Dr. Sukarno	Indonesian President	pp. 4777-4781
1956.03.05	His Excellency Giovanni Gronchi	Italian President	pp. 1830-1832
1956.02.06	Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Eden	P.M. of Great Britain	pp. 906-908
1953.11.14	Dwight D. Eisenhower	U.S. President	pp. 23-28
1951.04.05	Vincent Auriol	French Republic President	pp. 1664-1667
1950.05.31	Hon. Liaquat Ali Khan	P.M. of Pakistan	pp. 3042-3044
1949.10.24	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru	P.M. of India	pp. 1103-1105
1947.06.11	Harry S. Truman	U.S. President	pp. 4062-4064
1945.11.19	Rt. Hon. Clement R. Attlee	P.M. of Great Britain	pp. 2276-2280
1944.06.30	Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser	P.M. of New Zealand	pp. 4421-4426
1944.06.01	Rt. Hon. John C. Curtin	P.M. of Australia	pp. 3453-3460
1943.06.03	Eduard Benes	Czechoslovakian President	pp. 3328-3333
1941.12.30	Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill	P.M. of Great Britain	pp. 4478-4482
1939.05.19	His Majesty the King		pp. 4322-4323