Editing John Turner (section)

===Premiership of Lester Pearson===
[[File:Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her Canadian Ministers at Rideau Hall 1 July 1967.jpg|thumb|right|Her Majesty [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and her Canadian Ministers at [[Rideau Hall]] for Canada Day 1 July 1967]]
Turner served in the [[Cabinet of Canada|Cabinet]] of Prime Minister [[Lester B. Pearson|Lester Pearson]] in various capacities, most notably as [[Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs]]. When Pearson retired, Turner ran to succeed him at the [[1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|1968 leadership convention]]. Turner, at age 38 the youngest of the dozen leadership candidates, stated "My time is now",<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/the-long-run-the-political-rise-of-john-turner/my-time-is-now.html | work=[[CBC News]] | title=The Long Run: The Political Rise of John Turner – CBC Archives | access-date=June 27, 2012 | archive-date=March 25, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325161704/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/politics/prime-ministers/the-long-run-the-political-rise-of-john-turner/my-time-is-now.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and remarked during his speech that he was "not here for some vague, future convention in, say, [[1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|1984]]".<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 5, 1968|title=CBC Archives - My time is now.|url=https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/my-time-is-now|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524075856/https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/my-time-is-now|archive-date=May 24, 2020|access-date=September 20, 2020|website=CBC Archives}}</ref> Turner stayed on until the fourth and final ballot, finishing third behind [[Pierre Trudeau]] and runner-up [[Robert Winters]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Penniman|first=Howard Rae|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pC3wqzDBlCcC&pg=PA70|title=Canada at the Polls, 1984: A Study of the Federal General Elections|date=1988|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|isbn=978-0-8223-0821-8|pages=70|language=en|access-date=September 21, 2020|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922224931/https://books.google.ca/books?id=pC3wqzDBlCcC&pg=PA70|url-status=live}}</ref>