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Canada's Best Prime Minister

Canada's Best Prime Minister

View Poll Results: Who was Canada's best PM?
Stephen Harper	0	0%
Jean Chretien	0	0%
Brian Mulroney	2	13.33%
Pierre Trudeau	3	20.00%
Lester Pearson	3	20.00%
Willian Lyon McKenzie King	1	6.67%
Robert Borden	0	0%
Wilfred Laurier	0	0%
John A MacDonald	3	20.00%
Other	3	20.00%
Voters: 15. You may not vote on this poll

#juan

No Party Affiliation

#31

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 28th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck

I can point it out for you then...

China said in post #13, "Where else have you brought up your children #juan ?"

To which you replied in post #14, "Only in Canada but we've travelled a fair amount."

No need to thank me.

BTW, I've also lived in Germany and traveled extensively. I don't pretend to be knowledgeable with regard to the local child rearing abilities.

Nor did I. Go troll somewhere else doughhead.

Cannuck

No Party Affiliation

#32

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 28th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by #juan

doughhead.

Doughhead? I expected something a little more worldly from somebody as traveled as you. How about son of a sharmoota, yinying or why not even cabeca de massa?

Socrates the Greek

#33

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

The best of the best PMs Canada will ever have, unless Justin will resurrect the Trudeau era of Canadian politics.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montréal 18 Oct 1919; d at Montréal 28 ...

Last edited by Socrates the Greek; Jun 29th, 2009 at 12:32 AM..

Trex

#34

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by china

I

Gdansk , Poland

I was in Gdansk a couple of years ago.
Passing through on business.
I had no expectations about the place before arrival.
I thought it was a great place.
I wandered about down town, found out it was the Amber Capital.
Great food, nice hotels.
Reasonable prices.
Interesting architecture.
Nice people.
I give it two thumbs up

Trex

Trex

#35

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Back on topic.
Pearson by far.

Trudeau was certainly the most polarizing.
Love him or hate him.
But he pushed Canada in directions that I feel hurt it us the long run.
And the divisions between francophone and anglophone and the East and the West that Trudeau created or fostered linger to this day.

I understand how socialists can revere him.
Personally while at the time I supported him, I now feel he did a great deal of damage to the country.

Trex

TenPenny

#36

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

Dood,
You are off topic and on the wrong thread.

I'm not sure I follow you. Why do you say this?

Polygong

#37

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

I don't see the Honourable John George Diefenbaker listed.

I had limited options on the poll, 10 in all, so I posted the 9 I guessed most likely to get a vote plus an "other" option.

I didn't think that Dief was a likely top 9 vote getter.

Cliffy

Free Thinker

#38

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny

I'm not sure I follow you. Why do you say this?

I can see the confusion. The post I was referring to was removed. It had nothing to do with this thread. My post has nothing to do with your post.

JLM

No Party Affiliation

#39

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Polygong

I had limited options on the poll, 10 in all, so I posted the 9 I guessed most likely to get a vote plus an "other" option.

I didn't think that Dief was a likely top 9 vote getter.

You are probably right- Dief was very popular in his day at the start of his terms. He was the first P.M. from the west in awhile, as a man he was regarded as honest and he was also regarded as very tough. He was very patriotic and he improved the lot of Saskatchewan buy selling lots of wheat to China. Sadly, Dief didn't listen too good & didn't welcome the opinions of his advisers.

TenPenny

#40

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Cliffy

I can see the confusion. The post I was referring to was removed. It had nothing to do with this thread. My post has nothing to do with your post.

Oh, yeah. That's like on the CBC site, where they edit the articles over the day, so many times posts refer to things that are no longer in the article. It's really confusing if you aren't reading it minute by minute.

#juan

No Party Affiliation

#41

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

I was in our military(RCAF) when Dief cancelled the Arrow. The Arrow was an icon before it was built. I probably wouldn't have flown it. The CF-100 drivers would have gotten the first crack at it because of their multi-engine experience. What most military people have never understood is why we cancelled the Arrow, a twin engine, supersonic intercepter, and bought the F-101 Voodoo, a twin engine, supersonic intercepter with half the range.

L Gilbert

No Party Affiliation

#42

Re: Canada's Best Prime Minister

Jun 29th, 2009

I thought I would vote for PET because he was popular, but then I can't be that shallow. He's in the middle somewhere.

"He was, after all the spiritualist and other jokes about his private life, our greatest prime minister. He tried to understand the country, he was capable of intellectual flexibility and change, and he attracted and held able colleagues. He was an intellectual who was sympathetic to ideas--our first!"
--Patrick Brennan, assistant professor of history, University of Calgary

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