Canadian Prime Ministers and Canadian Stock Returns, Intra-Year Declines, and the Behaviour Gap

Canadian Prime Ministers and Canadian Stock Returns

Prime Minister	Start Year	End Year	Party	Nominal Return for the Period (annualized)	Inflation	Real Returns
John Diefenbaker	1957	1963	PC	6.80%	1.30%	5.50%
Lester B Pearson	1963	1968	Liberal	13.00%	3.10%	9.90%
Pierre Trudeau	1968	1979	Liberal	10.40%	7.00%	3.40%
Joe Clark	1979	1980	PC	37.30%	10.40%	26.90%
Pierre Trudeau	1980	1984	Liberal	10.30%	8.10%	2.20%
Brian Mulroney	1984	1993	PC	9.00%	3.80%	5.20%
Jean Cretien	1993	2003	Liberal	10.60%	1.80%	8.80%
Paul Martin	2003	2006	Liberal	20.50%	2.00%	18.50%
Steven Harper	2006	2015	PC	4.40%	1.60%	2.80%
Justin Trudeau	2015	2020	Liberal	6.20%	1.70%	4.50%

Chart built with Data from Wikipedia for Prime Minster terms, and the Dimensional Fund Advisors Matrix Book for Canadian Stock Returns and Inflation.