Great Canadian Primeministers

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                                                                             Great Canadian Primeministers

                           Historians suffer from peer pressure and they are as susceptible to fashion as the
                           rest of us. But mostly they are cautious, anxious not to offend[!]unlike sociologists.

                           Historians overrate Wilfrid Laurier; we all do. He is a sentimental favorite, eternally
                           speaking on national unity at political picnics, a man practised in turning the other
                           cheek. Called the Great Conciliator, he was born a com- promiser. When Laurier
                           did take a stand, he ended up standing alone. He mis- judged the mettle of the
                           Americans, and the self-interest of the British, in the Alaska boundary dispute; a
                           costly lesson in the true value of sentiment in international affairs. Half the country
                           abandoned him over the issue of reciprocity, and many of his best friends deserted
                           him in the Ontario school question. He would say, with some truth, he had "outlived
                           Liberalism."

                           Brian Mulroney succeeded where Laurier failed. Like Laurier, Mulroney built his
                           own party in Quebec and used it to conquer the country. Considering that he was
                           Irish, not French, and Tory, not Liberal, this was no mean achievement. And
                           Mulroney carried the country on the issue of free trade, holding his party together
                           largely by the force of his "sunny ways" (as was said of Laurier), despite Tory
                           traditions and suspicions.

                             The nearer history comes to current events, the thicker the fog and the dust. John
                                      A. Macdonald and Mackenzie King have long since survived the
                                      revisionists and the hagiographers. Our two greatest prime ministers
                                      were the most prag- matic; neither was a visionary. Macdonald's
                                      Canada was the creation of his pure political skills; his National
                                      Policy enough to seize the imagination of a scattered population of
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