i posted on the gwb thread about canadas five greatest pms, and other people posted about american presidents, so i figured id make a thread out of it. mines posted from the other thread.

1) lester pearson

introduced universal health care, student loans, bilingualism, the Canada Pension Plan, and Canada's flag. oh yeah, and won the fricken nobel peace prize.

2) john a macdonald

father of confederation, built the cpr, killed louis riel (but we forgive him)

3) wilfred laurier

prime minister for 15 years, led during a time of huge growth and prosperity, resolved the manitoba schools problem, where french students could get french language schooling

4) mackenzie king

canada's crazy prime minister (he consuled often with the spirits of leonardo da vinci, louis pasteur, and his dog, pat). led canada through WWII. introduced old aged pensions.

5) pierre trudeau

an enormously controversial figure. he gets in because he gave us our own constitution and bill of rights (the act that made canada, the bna act, was enacted by the british parliament)

Leaders or Presidents? Henry Clay never occupied the White House, but he's got a hell of a resume.

whatever your countrys top office is. i didnt say presidents or prime ministers so i didnt exclude people.

I'm an international poli sci guy and I sadly know very little about Canadian politics/history.

I have heard of Trudeau. Via a Beatles documentary.

Why did Pearson win the Nobel peace prize?

he had a pivotal role in creating the un peace keeping force that was used first in the suez crisis, and pretty much everywhere else since.

1. The guy with the hat

2. The one with the moustache

3. That dude with the axe

4. That crip with the monocle

5. Mr. James K Polk, Napoleon Of The Stump

He had panache and balls and continued to wield an influence out of office that's almost incalculable in our current political situation.

Like in this interview here

I happen to think that, with a few exceptions, our Presidents have rarely been the best at anything, much less leading.

I don't know enough about the 18th and 19th centuries to take into consideration any of the Prime Ministers from then, although William Pitt the Younger, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone are the 'big' names.


1. Clement Atlee
2. Winston Churchill
3. David Lloyd George
4. Harold McMillan
5. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (didn't do much but he went to Glasgow University)

Rather depressingly you have to go back to Harold Wilson to find the last decent British Prime Minister and I was only 2 years old back in 1976.

1. Michael Jordan

2. Scottie Pippen

3. Dennis Rodman

4. Steve Kerr

5. Luc Longley.

No Kukoc?

He's the honorary first lady,

I thought you were Scottish?

1. Kenneth MacAlpine
2. Somerled MacFergus
3. Robert Bruce
4. Bishop William Lamberton
5. William Wallace

Let's see:
curly
shepp
moe
manny
jack

or is it,
groucho
harpo
chico and the man
I forget the last one.

Elvis' dog?

1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. George Washington
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. Theodore Roosevelt

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha.

Names on the tip of my...tip of my...tongue? Tongue? Mao Tse Tung?

Not a big fan of Nikita Kruschev. I'd replace him with Albert Einstein!

My next cat will be named Meow Tse Tung.

Now Robert Bruce should be top of that list and the absence of William the Lion is perplexing although I suppose the Treaty of Falaise was a black mark against him. As churchmen go Bishop Robert Wishart also deserves high praise for his role in the Wars of Independance.

My friend had two cats, one was named that and the other one was named 1988 Nagano Winter Olympic Games.

Awesome.

Awesome-er.