Macleans: Canada's best prime ministers
Newsbot @ Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:43 pm
Title: Macleans: Canada's best prime ministers
Category: Political
Posted By: DerbyX
Date: 2011-06-18 12:54:38
Canadian
Arctic_Menace @ Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:43 pm
I more or less agree with this list except that I'd put Sir John in first place and switch Chretien with St. Laurent.
Freakinoldguy @ Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:53 pm
Since it was a survey my guess would be that most people answered on the PM's notoriety rather than ability, so I don't put much stock in the rankings.
raydan @ Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:08 pm
Trudeau! Trudeau!!!!!
Anybody want to help me bomb Macleans? 
fifeboy @ Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:38 pm
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Mustang1 @ Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:37 am
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Since it was a survey my guess would be that most people answered on the PM's notoriety rather than ability, so I don't put much stock in the rankings.
Actually, it was a survey of 117 historians, political scientists, economists and other academics in relevant fields. It's definitely not based on "notoriety".
CDN_PATRIOT @ Sun Jun 19, 2011 4:20 am
Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
I more or less agree with this list except that I'd put Sir John in first place and switch Chretien with St. Laurent.
Sir John A. MacDonald should be first, agreed. But Harper should be above both Mulroney and Diefenbaker for sure.
Why is Kim Campbell on that list??? She was barely a blip in the top job, and didn't really do much.
-J.
weaselways @ Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:47 am
Laurier
MacDonald
WLM King
Borden
St Laurent
Pearson
Chretien
Harper
Martin
Trudeau
Diefenbaker
The rest in the same order as McLeans list
Proculation @ Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:05 am
Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
I more or less agree with this list except that I'd put Sir John in first place and switch Chretien with St. Laurent.
You would put a corrupt guy before another corrupt guy ?
Proculation @ Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:06 am
CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:
Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
I more or less agree with this list except that I'd put Sir John in first place and switch Chretien with St. Laurent.
Sir John A. MacDonald should be first, agreed. But Harper should be above both Mulroney and Diefenbaker for sure.
Why is Kim Campbell on that list??? She was barely a blip in the top job, and didn't really do much.
-J.
Hint: She was prime minister.
gonavy47 @ Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:18 am
If it was a poll of WORST PM's then it's Trudeau for No. 1
bootlegga @ Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:26 am
Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
I more or less agree with this list except that I'd put Sir John in first place and switch Chretien with St. Laurent.
My guess if that Sir John A is probably second because of the Pacific scandal.
smorgdonkey @ Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:20 pm
gonavy47 gonavy47:
If it was a poll of WORST PM's then it's Trudeau for No. 1
There's no way that he could knock Harper and Mulroney out of #1 and #2 for worst.
gonavy47 @ Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:33 pm
smorgdonkey smorgdonkey:
gonavy47 gonavy47:
If it was a poll of WORST PM's then it's Trudeau for No. 1
There's no way that he could knock Harper and Mulroney out of #1 and #2 for worst.
Spoken like a true liberal.
Trudeau was a clown.