Victor Garbutt Chapman (April 28, 1932 – December 21, 1987) was a Canadian press secretary who worked for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the British royal family.
[8] In 1957, Chapman averaged a Western Interprovincial Football Union-leading 42.4 yards per punt, scored three receiving touchdowns, and intercepted four passes, including a pick six against the Stampeders.
[9] That year, Chapman had a career high 368 receiving yards and scored the Lions' only touchdown in a 10–8 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Edmonton needed a roster spot to make room for Gino Fracas, who was coming off of the injury list, and saw Chapman, who did not play much on offence, as expendable.
Turner lost the election to Pierre Trudeau, who hired Chapman as an assistant press secretary during a reorganization of the prime minister's office that July.
[23][24][25] In 1969, he assisted press secretary Roméo LeBlanc during John Lennon and Yoko Ono's visit with the prime minister.
[26] He accompanied Trudeau when the Prime Minister met with President Richard Nixon at the Moses-Saunders Power Dam in 1969 and the White House in 1970.
[31] Chapman was loaned out to the Department of External Affairs for Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Queen Elizabeth II visits to Canada.
[41] During her 1982 visit, he removed reporter Claude Papineau from the press pool after he broke custom and directly quoted the Queen in an article.
[40] In 1982, Chapman was named assistant press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, a post traditionally filled by an appointee from a Commonwealth country.
[43] During that same trip, Chapman expressed unhappiness over the Spanish press' disclosure of off-the-record remarks made by Prince Charles and warned that it "would put in jeopardy future media receptions".