Shawinigan Handshake

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**[Shawinigan Handshake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawinigan_Handshake)**[is the epithet given to a chokehold executed on February 15, 1996 by Jean Chrétien, then-Prime Minister of Canada, on anti-poverty protester Bill Clennett. The phrase comes from Chrétien’s birthplace of Shawinigan, Quebec, as the former prime minister often styled himself the “little guy from Shawinigan”.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawinigan_Handshake)

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