Rank the Prime Ministers of Canada

[Hatman 🍁]

I've taken the liberty of doing a ranking of Canada's PMs, much like the one's done for the US Presidents. I've tried to remain bi-partisan, but I have some bias.

1) Pierre Trudeau, Liberal (1968-1979; 1980-1984)
2) Lester B. Pearson, Liberal (1963-1968)
3) Sir Wilfird Laurier, Liberal (1896-1911)
4) Sir John A. Macdonald, Conservative (1867-1873; 1878-1891)
5) Mackenzie King, Liberal (1921-1926; 1926-1930; 1935-1948)
6) Sir Robert Borden, Conservative (1911-1920)
7) John Diefenbaker, Conservative (1957-1963)
8 ) Louis Saint-Laurent, Liberal (1948-1957)
9) Jean Chretien, Liberal (1993-2003)
10) Joe Clark, Conservative (1979-1980)
11) Kim Campbell, Conservative (1993)
12) Alexander Mackenzie, Liberal (1873-1878)
13) Sir John Thompson, Conservative (1892-1894)
14) Paul Martin, Liberal (2003-2006)
15) John Turner, Liberal (1984)
16) Sir John Abbott (1891-1892)
17) Sir Charles Tupper, Conservative (1896)
18) Arthur Meighen, Conservative (1920-1921; 1926)
19) Stephen Harper, Conservative (2006-present)
20) Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Conservative (1894-1896)
21) Brian Mulroney, Conservative (1984-1993)
22) Richard Beford Bennett, Conservative (1930-1935)

And the 5 greatest party leaders who were never Prime Minister?

1) Tommy Douglas, NDP leader (1961-1971)
2) Ed Broadbent, NDP leader (1975-1989)
3) Robert Stanfield, Conservative leader (1967-1976)
4) J.S. Woodsworth, CCF leader (1932-1942)
5) George Drew, Conservative leader (1948-1956)

[Hatman 🍁]

Trudeau does have that love-hate relationship with Canadians. I personally thought he was a great PM, which is why he's #1. Pearson was also a great PM, thanks to the fact he had a minority.

Feel free to rate the Irish and British PMs too

[Hatman 🍁]

As a casual observer, I just think with the Canadians have had a religous nut from Alberta right after an inept socialist that Canada has been having almost as bad time, politically as the U.S..

By the way, would you consider Harper the Canadian Gipper?

Did you just call Paul Martin a socialist? *falls off the chair laughing*

[Hatman 🍁]

By the way, would you consider Harper the Canadian Gipper?

Uh.  No.

Mulrooney would really be the Canadian Reagan, no?

Harper seems to me to be more the Canadian Benjamin Harrison.

Mulroney is Reagan, Campbell is the first Bush, Chretien is Clinton and Harper is the current Bush. Paul Martin is kinda like... Al Gore

[Hatman 🍁]

Mulrooney would really be the Canadian Reagan, no?

Sort of.  He did win the biggest landslide in Canadian history, but he's also now pretty much universally hated.

Ah yes. Of course you can argue that Reagan SHOULD be universally hated

There are many parallels between the 1984 Canadian election and the 1984 US Presidential race.

[Hatman 🍁]

Don't you guys think that Trudeau's handling of the October Crisis was a bit...excessive? Sending the military into Quebec because the FLQ kidnapped two people? Or am I looking at the whole thing from a naive American perspective?

I tend to think it was probably a good idea, even though one of my other political heroes, Tommy Douglas was against it.

[Hatman 🍁]

I notice nobody has responded to my point about Canadian independence being a fiction which only exists on paper.

I've resisted ignoring you in the past, but I think it's time to do what many others have already done.

[Hatman 🍁]

Best Prime Minister                                   Stephen Harper

Comedy goldmine time!