Today in Canada’s Political History: Barack Obama receives Democratic nomination for President in the USABarack Obama of Illinois in the United States made history on this date in 2008, becoming the first African American to be chosen by either the Democratic or Republican party to serve as a Presidential candidate. He then made history again a few months elected upon his election as the first – and so far, only – African American President. He would serve two terms as President of the United States, with Canadian Prime Ministers Stephen J. Harper and Justin Trudeau serving in Canada’s highest political office during the period. That visit was the first time Obama had traveled to a foreign country since his swearing-in. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.

Source: CBC News August 28, 2022 09:50 UTC