Nov 20, 1841
Nov 20, 1841 - Prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who was the first French-Canadian PM and who held the longest unbroken tenure as PM, was born at St-Lin, Canada E.
“It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.”