Precisely. Diefenbaker was famously a good debater, but was actually very indecisive as PM (As told to me by thereon of his Whip). Most of Dief's floor moments were in Opisition.
No party leader is going to entirely please their constituency; sensible leaders have normally relied on senior figures to keep factions and tendencies confident that they have a voice at the top.
Mr Mulroney's croneyism was redeemed among business types by Mr Mazankowski and progressives by Mr Clark. Mr Trudeau's bolshie RC side was tempered by Mr Turner/Mr Lumley for business types, Roberts & Johnson for policy nerds, and Gray & Axworthy for the anglophone left. Mr Polièvre has a number of competent colleagues whom he should allow to the front to ensure that voters see the Conservatives as more than a one-note chihuahua ego vehicle; I think he is not serving his cause when he does not bring them forth.
Precisely. Diefenbaker was famously a good debater, but was actually very indecisive as PM (As told to me by thereon of his Whip). Most of Dief's floor moments were in Opisition.
While I know it's not who you meant, your mention of a Dief flunky spurned me into re-familiarizing myself with Sean O'Sullivan, Dief's latter-day assistant, later MP, and later RC priest.
Apparently, it was O'Sullivan who conceived the controversial DARE TO BE A PRIEST LIKE ME billboard campaign in the mid-1980s. I remember that being denounced by its critics as creepy and weird, but some reporting also claims it was succesful.
Eh, no, Charlie. As someone who spent 32 years in the GREAT CITY OF WINNING CHAMPIONS FOREVER, I don't need to hear your canned outrage at billionaire MAGA-connected celebrities, wistfilly prefaced by folksy recollections of watching The Great One play back in the day.
Though, if I'm being honest, I can't deny that this might be good politics. Bobby Orr got mentioned by Angus as a fallen idol as well. I do recall Orr being something of a hero around Edmonton in the pre-NHL 1970s, even though he was playing with a yankee team.
And a recent photo has just surfaced of Gretzky and Trump golfing together, in the absence of any statements from Gretzky denouncing his friend's ongoing annexationist rhetoric.
I will note that Gary Freaking Bettman has done a better job of defending Canadian sovereignty against Trump than has Number 99.
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I will note that Gary Freaking Bettman has done a better job of defending Canadian sovereignty against Trump than has Number 99.
It is not Gretzky's job to criticize Trump. He is a private person, not a politician, and not responsible for defending Canadian sovereignty.
Also, I'm tired of hearing people saying you can only be friends with someone with whom you agree on every issue. That is an extremely intolerant attitude and very un-Christ-like. I recall several stories about Jesus associating with sinners.
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I will note that Gary Freaking Bettman has done a better job of defending Canadian sovereignty against Trump than has Number 99.
It is not Gretzky's job to criticize Trump. He is a private person, not a politician, and not responsible for defending Canadian sovereignty.
That's a point. And I'll concede I was the one earlier mocking Charlie Angus for his schmaltzy lamentation of lost heroes.
Still, given that Trump had used Gretzky as a prop in his attempt at normalizing annexation, it's pretty bad PR for Gretzky himself not to have spoken out against that idea, and to now be photographed golfing with Trump.
BC's Father of Confederation was named Amor de Cosmos.
It was all downhill from there,
Né William Alexander Smith IIRC Perhaps we should only memorialize eminent political persons who rename themselves in a similarly artistic/eccentric manner.
BC's Father of Confederation was named Amor de Cosmos.
Is he officially classified as a Father Of Confederation? If so, I'd be willing to bet he's the only Mormon among the bunch. And probably even the only Mormon to have been a premier anywhere in Canada.
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Mr Mulroney's croneyism was redeemed among business types by Mr Mazankowski and progressives by Mr Clark. Mr Trudeau's bolshie RC side was tempered by Mr Turner/Mr Lumley for business types, Roberts & Johnson for policy nerds, and Gray & Axworthy for the anglophone left. Mr Polièvre has a number of competent colleagues whom he should allow to the front to ensure that voters see the Conservatives as more than a one-note chihuahua ego vehicle; I think he is not serving his cause when he does not bring them forth.
While I know it's not who you meant, your mention of a Dief flunky spurned me into re-familiarizing myself with Sean O'Sullivan, Dief's latter-day assistant, later MP, and later RC priest.
Apparently, it was O'Sullivan who conceived the controversial DARE TO BE A PRIEST LIKE ME billboard campaign in the mid-1980s. I remember that being denounced by its critics as creepy and weird, but some reporting also claims it was succesful.
And a recent photo has just surfaced of Gretzky and Trump golfing together, in the absence of any statements from Gretzky denouncing his friend's ongoing annexationist rhetoric.
I will note that Gary Freaking Bettman has done a better job of defending Canadian sovereignty against Trump than has Number 99.
It is not Gretzky's job to criticize Trump. He is a private person, not a politician, and not responsible for defending Canadian sovereignty.
Also, I'm tired of hearing people saying you can only be friends with someone with whom you agree on every issue. That is an extremely intolerant attitude and very un-Christ-like. I recall several stories about Jesus associating with sinners.
That's a point. And I'll concede I was the one earlier mocking Charlie Angus for his schmaltzy lamentation of lost heroes.
Still, given that Trump had used Gretzky as a prop in his attempt at normalizing annexation, it's pretty bad PR for Gretzky himself not to have spoken out against that idea, and to now be photographed golfing with Trump.
It was all downhill from there,
Né William Alexander Smith IIRC Perhaps we should only memorialize eminent political persons who rename themselves in a similarly artistic/eccentric manner.
Is he officially classified as a Father Of Confederation? If so, I'd be willing to bet he's the only Mormon among the bunch. And probably even the only Mormon to have been a premier anywhere in Canada.
You do recall correctly. Apparently, he was living in California at the time, and had to petition the legislature to change his name.