Rank the Prime Ministers of Canada

[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.

[Јas]

We have safe seats now o\c - Was Groucho Marx of Limerick's (AKA Willie O'Dea) seat ever under threat? Nahhh.. And the idea of chasing marginals is dependant on the idea that the opposition could actually win an election.. And yes Irish politics would get more local (well, if that's possible), Carlow-Kilkenny get 5 seats already and is highly localized - an uber-rural Urlingford-Kilkenny County seat.....

Well, yeas there are safe seats, but there are few constituencies which don't have a battle for the last seat - in that sense most of the 43 constituencies are marginal.

The reason I would doubt the increased 'localisation' is beacuse I think it's pretty much maxed out at present. In a 166 seter, surely the number of safe constituencies would rise dramatically and the focus would be on the true marginals. I think if we had went with FPTP, we would eventually have found ourselves with a FG opposition capable of winning elections (with Lab support) - simply because eventually people will vote for change.

But As you say by now we're "hypotecising to its limits".

Where else but on the atlas would a discussion entitled "Rank the Prime Ministers of Canada" would end up as a discussion on what if the 1959 Anti-PR referendum in Ireland had passed?

Well, we were invited in...sort of

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Canada isn't a real country.

[Hash]

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?

It was a bit excessive. The FLQ wasn't like Al Qaeda, they were a rather small group of retards kidnapping low-profile people (come on a provincial minister and trade-attachée?) and reading a stupid manifesto to act like revolutionaries. Trudeau over did it. He protected every single provincial minister, even if he happened to be a lousy Liberal MNA from Joliette.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

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

[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.

[Lincoln Republican]

Best Prime Minister                                   Stephen Harper

Worst Prime Minister No Contest              Pierre Trudeau

[Hatman 🍁]

Best Prime Minister                                   Stephen Harper

Comedy goldmine time!

[Gabu]

Best Prime Minister                                   Stephen Harper

Best prime minister ever?

Harper's time thus far as prime minister has been so lackluster that I can barely even form an opinion of him.

[Boris]

Best Prime Minister                                   Stephen Harper

What about Reagan's lapdog, Brian Mulroney?

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

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.

What? Canada is THAT tied to the US economcially

[Hash]

Best Prime Minister                                   Stephen Harper

Best prime minister ever?

Harper's time thus far as prime minister has been so lackluster that I can barely even form an opinion of him.

What did he do that merits recognition?