Canada : The 18th Premier of Ontario, Bill Davis, passed away on Sunday morning, according to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was 92.
“Mr. Davis spent more than 25 years serving his province and was the second longest serving Premier of Ontario. He led the province for 14 years during a transformative time in its history,” Trudeau said in a statement.
Davis, whose full name was William Grenville Davis, was premier from 1971 until 1985.
“As Premier, and as a long-serving Minister of Education, he established TV Ontario and oversaw the creation of several new universities and the province’s community college system,” Trudeau said.
Davis established Canada’s first environmental land‑use plan and played a role in the patriation of the Constitution, leading to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Trudeau noted in his statement Sunday.
Davis was also “a skilled statesman,” according to Trudeau, and a man who championed efforts on fundamental issues such as diversity and human rights alongside Trudeau’s father, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
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