Privy councillors are entitled to the style "The Honourable" () or, for the prime minister, chief justice, or certain other eminent individuals, "The Right Honourable" () and the post-nominal letters "PC" (in ). Prior to 1967, the style "The Right Honourable" was only employed in Canada by those appointed to the Imperial Privy Council in London, such persons usually being prime ministers, Supreme Court chief justices, certain senior members of the Canadian Cabinet, and other eminent Canadians. These appointments ended under Lester Pearson, though the traditional style remained in use, limited to only prime ministers and chief justices. In 1992, several eminent privy councillors, most of whom were long-retired from active politics, were granted the style by the governor general, and, in 2002, Jean Chrétien recommended that Herb Gray, a privy councillor of long standing, be given the style "The Right Honourable" upon his retirement from parliament.