Best Prime Ministers Canada never had?

[Big Blue Machine]

I will put forward some names: Robert Stanfield and Bill Davis.

Who do you guys have in mind?

[geoffrey]

R.B. Bennett... his policies would have taken us out of the depression, but patience wore thin...

And we are still paying the price of that impatience. King's Liberal's didn't pull us out of depression, the war did.

The last true old school Conservative before the 'progressive' big government types took over.

[Ricki Bobbi]

Peter Lougheed?

Ed Broadbent?

Frank McKenna?

[Wilber]

In my political memory, Stanfield.

[madmax]

R.B. Bennett... his policies would have taken us out of the depression, but patience wore thin...

ROTFLOL, yeah, you are correct Geoffrey. Not adding much to the debate.

That said, I am interested in your taxing structure in another thread if you find time to follow up.

I withdraw my early morning laughter. Please disregard this valueless commentary.

This post has been edited 10.00am madmax

[geoffrey]

R.B. Bennett... his policies would have taken us out of the depression, but patience wore thin...

ROTFLOL

Excellent, mature contribution to the debate.

[guyser]

I will put forward some names: Robert Stanfield and Bill Davis.

Who do you guys have in mind?

Please not William Davis, no no no. He has put Toronto in a bind by his past actions. He would not have made a good PM.

[jdobbin]

Richard Hatfield.

I would have loved to see the Bricklin become Canada's national car. <heh>

[Canadian Blue]

Preston Manning, Ed Broadbent, Tommy Douglas, and Gerard Kennedy.

[Melanie_]

Preston Manning, Ed Broadbent, Tommy Douglas, and Gerard Kennedy.

Kennedy's time is yet to come.

[geoffrey]

I missed the question, hence my confusion. My apologies.

Wayne Gretzky....

The only thing Canada does well in anymore internationally is hockey so we should focus on our strengths.

[madmax]

Richard Hatfield.

I would have loved to see the Bricklin become Canada's national car. <heh>

I remember working on them in the early 80's. Rain Water Coming inside, Power cuts out, Gull wing doors don't open. Body that waves back at you.

[jdobbin]

I remember working on them in the early 80's. Rain Water Coming inside, Power cuts out, Gull wing doors don't open. Body that waves back at you.

All it needed was a federal source of funding to become the best car in the world. ha.

[mikedavid00]

Who do you guys have in mind?

Preston Manning hands down.

[Ricki Bobbi]

Preston Manning hands down.

Preston suffered from Joe Clark disease. He didn't have the killer instinct necessary for plitics.

He could have held the Liberals to a minority in 1997 over the flooding in Manitoba in that election.

Had he done that he wouldn't have been forced out before the next election, Chretien probably would have and Preston may have become Prime Minister as a result.

If Martin was as bad a Prime Minister in the late 90s as he was in the 2000s the Liberals probably would have lost the next election after he took power.

[mikedavid00]

Preston Manning hands down.

Preston suffered from Joe Clark disease. He didn't have the killer instinct necessary for plitics.

He could have held the Liberals to a minority in 1997 over the flooding in Manitoba in that election.

Had he done that he wouldn't have been forced out before the next election, Chretien probably would have and Preston may have become Prime Minister as a result.

If Martin was as bad a Prime Minister in the late 90s as he was in the 2000s the Liberals probably would have lost the next election after he took power.

Yeah I remember that flood. Remember Chretien posing for the cameras while he put up some sandbags litterly for 5 min and then left. That was truly pathetic.

Let's take a look at a newspaper from India and see what they said about manning:

Here's manning when he was running visiting Punjab and explaining why he's visiting. Even in India they are familiar with our politics and the Liberals:

"The second reason is that a majority of our 55 MPs come from the western hemisphere of Canada. It is this area which has a large population of immigrants from Asia.

"The third and the last reason has been Indo-Canadian trade. In India, trade is being liberalised. We are here to familiarise ourselves with the ground realities and economic conditions in the subcontinent," Mr Manning said.

The Canadian delegation has a special reason to visit India and Punjab. As much as 70 per cent of the Indian-Canadians are of Punjabi origin. In fact two of the MPs of the Reform Party, Mr Gurmant Singh Grewal and Mr Deepak Ubhrai are Punjabis.

"In my constituency, Sikhs presented me a picture of the Golden Temple besides a set of books about the history of the Sikhs," says Mr Manning.

Talking about the initial image of party as "racist and anti-immigrants", Mr Manning said there had been a "deliberate attempt on some of our opponents to label this like that."

"What we had been propagating is that race should not be a factor to determine the grant of immigration. The intake of immigrants should be tight so as to suit the economy and requirements of the country. Canada has a majority of immigrants. In our party, we have leaders from different ethnic communities," asserted Mr Manning.

Because he wanted to do what was right and fair for Canada, he got labeled as anti-imigrant and lost IMO.

I know Harper has learned from this. And I hope Dion loses in the polls from this. Immigrants are extremely paranoid when you threaten the prospects of their relatives coming over.

I beleive that this point it's the immigrant vote that will determine the majority gov't with the Conservatives and I feel Harpers making the right moves.