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Mount Rushmore if Canada had one and several other subjects). In ALL CASES THE AUTHOR ATTEMPED TO APPLY OBJECTIVE FILTERS AND THIS SUBJECT IS NO DIFFERENT

- see the table below.

Thoughts and Conclusion

Canada has had several prominent Prime Ministers (PMs), who, through their accomplishments and impact on Canada may be labelled as “great. Some of those PMs are included be low:

Figure1: Glasgow born sir john Alexander MacDonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister – the “Father of Confederation

Figure2: [i]the[ii]gravesite[iii]of Sir John A. MacDonald just outside Kingston, Ontario.

Figure 3: Sir Wilfred Laurier who combined with MacDonald to ensure hi Quebec constituents were fully part of the new Canada

Figure 4:Piere Elliot Trudeau , the Liberal PM from Montreal who succeeded in repatriating Canada’s constitution from the U.K. thus securing Canada’s final step as a truly independent sovereign nation (see figure 5)

Figure 5: Trudeau with members of his cabinet and Queen Elizabeth 2 of signing of the newly repatriated constitution in what became by the Queen’s signature the “Canada act”, which incorporated the British North America Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights- the final step to independence

Figure 6: PM William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s PM during WW2, AND REPRESENTED Canada at the Yalta Conference (see below)

Figure 7: The Yalta Conference where (L-R; Churchill, Roosevelt, and King (standing behind Roosevelt) and Stalin determined the geographical division and areas of responsibilities of post-war Europe, which lead to the creation of the “Warsaw Pact”, the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall and the start of the Cold War.

Figure 8: PM Sir Robert Borden who steered Canada through the calamities of WW 1

Figure 9: PM Lester B. Pearson[i] having received the Nobel Peace Prize for introducing the concept of a UN Peacekeeping force.[ii]

Bibliography

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Previous Opinion papers submitted to Ms. Tonia Brogue (WJS Canada) January-May 2023

“The National Dream by Pierre Berton

“The Last Spike” by Pierre Berton

“Rise to Greatness the History of Canada” by Conrad Black

[1] Note the signs at the foot of the monument, it has been suggested that rather than tear down the statues and monuments of prominent Canadians, all of whom must have had some faults, we should keep the statutes and, using them as an educational device, post signs explaining the good and the bad.

[2] The author served on 2 such missions as an infantry officer in the third and second battalions of Princess Patricia’s Cananadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) IN Cyprus in 1988 and in Croatia in 1993

[3] For Canada the repatriation of the British North America Act in 1982, and it’s re-naming to the “Canada Act” was Canada’s final step to complete independence as it gave us the ability to amend our own constitution without seeking the approval of a foreign government (i.e., the U.K). (

[4] While Quebec would remain a province within Canada other provinces took exception to Quebec’s “special status”, which meant a rise in western independence in Alberta especially after Trudeau’s disastrous “National Energy Program (NEP; AN ATTEMPT TO CONTROL THE PRICE OF OIL AND THUS GASOLINE, WHICH WAS Viewed as a special policy to votr-rich eastern Canada; indeed, in many regards western Canada has never forgiven the Liberal Party for this injustice, witness the absence of liberal seats in federal and provincial elections in western provinces. The west has not forgotten!

[5] The reader should remember that the Prime Minister is the “head of government and NOT THE “head of state as this is embodied in the British Sovereign, currently King Charles 3.

[6] Though undeniably a great PM, who deservedly received the moniker “Father of Confederation”. All great leaders have had glaring faults and MacDonald had his; specifically, the creation and adoption of the “Residential School “, an incredibly cruel policy that tormented generations of First Nations people

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