110 Replies to “Well Done!”

  2. 30 years from now I wonder which Bush will be voted the worst American ever.
    I’d rather be Icarus than a do nothing nobody!

  3. Finally, getting his JUST reward! Problem is we are going to be dealing with the results of his handy work for years to come.

  4. I’m shocked too!! Shocked the idiot McKenzie King is not on that list. He deserved top billing with PET. Our education system is to blame, IMO.

  6. “Not surprisingly, our history panel’s list provides a more considered
    and measured response. They have a deeper perspective of time itself, as well
    as the restraint of the discipline in assigning cause and impact to certain
    people and events,” explained Deborah Morrison, president and chief executive
    officer of Canada’s National History Society and publisher of the magazine.
    “But the survey also provided a rare opportunity to engage the broader public
    in developing some of that historical perspective. The project is successful
    for the many conversations it has started around kitchen tables, water
    coolers, and elsewhere.”
    Kool-aid addict…

  8. Stephen HARPER!? Did the Toronto Star solicit votes?
    IMO, our intelligent, principled PM is by far the best thing to happen on the Canadian political scene in a very long time.
    Well, at least Pierre Trudeau came in first. His Charter, the fountain of so many present-day ills in this country, is an albatross around the collective Canadian neck. The Charter’s only saving grace is the notwithstanding clause, which the Liberals and MSM have cast as Canada’s Professor Moriarty: what malevolent dolts. Canadians need to wake up and realize that the notwithstanding clause is our only way back from the democratic-deficit desert in which we are now floundering. (Sorry about the mixed metaphor!)
    I’m going to get my copy of The Beaver today!
    I’m also going to keep an eye on the MSM response. How will they spin this?

  9. Trudeaumania —- I remember it well.
    The media gave wall to wall coverage of PET — kissing the young girls, a “free-spirit” punk wearing a Nazi helmet, Canadian gov’ts have no place in the bedrooms of the nation (will be in every other room in the house though.)
    A “new-era” for a young country.
    Lotsa coverage > call it Trudeaumania > then more coverage > call it more mania > only Pierre can “save” the confederation > please save us with a reward-failure, punish-success ideology > repeat >
    Perhaps the phrase “love of money is the root of all evil”, should be changed to “the media is the root of all evil”. A fearmongering evil.

  10. Damn! How did I miss that poll. I certainly would have piled on that choice. Yes indeed, a fine moment in Canadian publishing.

  12. he has certainly cost us more than either Pickton, Eagleson, or even Clifford Olson.

  13. Rot liberals, your god is a dead lefty who totally missed the biggest trend in the last century, and picked communism.
    50 /50 chance of getting it right, and this shallow jew hating fwench lawyer elite bet against freedom.
    You’re welcome!

  15. “Maulice Stlong”,… never heard of him, Lord Beaver Brook” though, WTF?

  16. Turdeau was bad, but his fart catcher, Jean Poutine Cretin should at least get honourable mention.
    Those were the days that a Canadian version of Lee Harvey Oswald would have done our troubled country a world of good.

  17. The mark of the worst Canadian politician can be measured by the amount of true dough his policies have cost successive generations.

  19. Trudeau is OK.
    Canadians elected him several times – probably because he was the best of the bunch – at that time.
    I saw Trudeau speak at the Hamilton Armory on James Street a long time ago – my Dad lifted me onto his shoulders so that I could see him – he was very impressive and came across as very honest and passionate about what he wanted to do.
    He was special – we should appreciate that – he was our Prime Minister for God’s sake – quite with the bellyacking and move on – understand that time period and where we were as a nation at that time.
    Who cares about some silly polls designed to make a few bucks and make a bunch of revisionists sleep happy. Very few of us have the guts to make a difference and drive to the top of Canadian or American politics – and make it – he did – and if he (or we) made mistakes back then – let’s fix them now and quite complaining about the past.

  20. I agree with lookout. It’s nice to see Trudeau in first place, but the inclusion of Stephen Harper sort of robs this entire experiment of credibility.

  21. I was shocked to see Sir John MacDonald on the list compiled by the panel of historians. I can’t imagine a unified Canada without him.

  22. Headline today in Saskatoon Star Phoenix:
    “Rock star” ex-PM Trudeau is worst Canadian: poll
    Reuters Published: Monday, July 30, 2007
    And the “beat goes on” with junior rockers Justin and Sacha!!

  23. cal2, if cost is your criteria, then watch out for what Harper is going to cost Canadians down the road by dragging his feat on environmental reforms. He’s putting all of his effort into ensuring the Alberta economy excels today, with no thought at all to the near future in 10 years.

  25. Oh, that’ll learn’me to not proof read a post. Feat = feet, not ‘feature’. Although Harper is dragging his feet regarding features of his platform.

  26. It might stick in the mag’s craw to do this but:
    They should turn the cover into a full sized poster and either sell it or give it away as a subscription premium.

  27. Now that I have seen the entire list and where each person is positioned, I am APPALLED. I do not believe that Brian Mulroney was among Canada’s best prime ministers, but I also do not believe he deserves to be ranked as worse than Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
    Similarly, I would love to see Stephen Harper and his government act more like conservatives than they currently do, but why he is on this list at all — let alone right behind Bernardo and Homolka — is beyond me.

  28. IMO, cconn’s ignorant, shallow musings add nothing of substance to this thread.
    “[Q]uite [sic] complaining about the past”? It’s those who know nothing about history–that IS the past, cconn–who are doomed to repeat it.
    cconn, please read my earlier comment about the Charter. And then respond in an intelligent manner, if you can. If you disagree with me, please explain how living in an oligarchy is better than living in a democracy, especially when the country one lives in–Canada–both boasts of being and advertises itself as a democracy.
    Of course, if cconn’s a L(l)iberal, false advertising’s the way things are done. (“Problem? I don’t see any problem.”)

  30. funny how time grants perspective to the great collectivity! The poll was a good choice but i’d still hold out for the dippy spiritist mother lover canada’s only native king! Pet was irretrievably economically(his looming debt legacy) and ideologically stupid (witness the castro love affair) but his one gift was the war measures act bravely instituted at exactly the right time so sigh that overbalances the remaining mess he left(oops no pun).

  31. What I find most annoying about that Reuters article is this quote:
    Morrison said she was initially surprised that Trudeau topped the poll, but realized he was an obvious target for Canadians, whom she said had little knowledge of their country’s short history.
    “He in many ways became the inevitable choice, because for a lot of Canadians, he is the history figure they know,” Morrison said.

    The way Morrison poo-poos the people who voted for Trudeau as being too ignorant to truly appreciate his greatness.

  32. Amazing how those on the ridiculous-right have nothing better to do than freep the internet polls. Rather than spending your time freeping, why not try to open a book (and your minds) for a change.

  33. Responsible and relevant journalism doesn’t put public servants and entertainers on a top ten list with murderers. Celine Dion worse than Clifford Olson? Nothing more than a sick and cheap attempt at humor.
    The list does nothing but show the cruel streak within the media and its’ addiction to the ignorant use of statistics. Anything to sell a rag.

  35. Amazing how the irrelevant Left have nothing better to do than defend the stupid SOB that destroyed our military. Right now, today, our soldiers are reaping what Trudeau sowed ‘way back when I was a teen in the militia.
    I figure Mr. Trudeau got more guys killed than Clifford Olson ever dreamed of, just from equipment failure alone.
    Chew on that Albatross, you ignorant teenager.

  37. Yes Caveman the left does open their minds to new ideas. That’s where those things come from that the right can’t seem to comprehend. Things like legalizing pot, gay marriage, abortions rights and worst of all for the right, tolerance of others who are non-white and/or non-christian.
    That’s what made Trudeau great, he could open his mind to new ideas.
    The point that many seem to miss on this poll is Harper, even after all the right-wing freeping came in 6th most disliked, even with Mulroney on the list.

  38. “Amazing how the irrelevant Left have nothing better to do than defend the stupid SOB that destroyed our military. Right now, today, our soldiers are reaping what Trudeau sowed ‘way back when I was a teen in the militia”
    Actually you should study up on the equipment Trudeau did purchase for the military and compare it with what the Mulroney government did. The fact is the PC sold off more equipment and closed more bases than any other government since the end of the Second World War. Then after selling it all off left Canada in a financial mess that the Liberals had to clean up. That’s why the military is now only today getting new equipment.
    Let’s not forget it was Trudeau’s government who purchased the F-18’s the Auroras and the Leopard tanks, the destroyers the Boeing 707s etc.

  39. Have to totally disagree with this. Turdeau was not the worst. The commie leftards who kept voting him in,even after he gave us the finger,are the real problem.Ummmmm…wonder how they ever missed going to that Paradise called Cuba? Oh darn. I forgot.Canada is the commie state trying to advance that evil called freedom and democracy.

  40. Behold, history is made of rubber! It can be bent in any direction.
    I lived through the Turd-eu years Albatross. I was IN the military while he was busy gutting it, and got the hell out ASAP.
    Where were you?

  41. John B. – I’m also sorry I missed this poll.
    Like others, I think that Mo Strong should be #2 and Harper/Black should not be there at all

  43. “Where were you?”
    In uniform, in Trenton and Comox.
    I stuck it out even during the Mulroney years of raping the military for everything they could.

  44. It is a clever promotional stunt. As “worst Canadian” is not very well defined it was bound to be controversial. The number of elected officials in the top 10 suggests to me that the average Canadian voter should top the list.

  45. O yes,Trudeau had a passion.He wanted an American style government without the checks of an elected senate and supreme court.That way his govt. could have the appearance of a democracy but be a dictatorship which he much admired.He stated that the Soviets had much that we could emulate and was a friend of tyrants the world over.

  46. The poll had catagories (I participated and voted for PET as the worst PM) but did not post the ‘winner’ from EACH catigory which explains why murderers are listed with entertainers. The Beaver ‘Oh so humble’ historical staff should have expained this – maybe they will in their magazine. They must have tabulated the results on simple numbers: I did not vote in the bad entertainer catagory but I did vote in the bad PM catagorie, some people did the opposite of myself. It was, therefore, by a huge margin, that the PET won the most hated Canadian; he was the most hated from all catagories. MSM will need some good spiders to spin this result.

  47. Y’know, that’d make a hell of a t-shirt: right, Ezra?
    BTW, if anybody’s driving down Front Street in Toronto this afternoon, you might want to swing by the CBC bunker and see how many ex-Trudeaumaniacs have thrown themselves off the roof. They’re the old ones with the hippie hair and Expo ’67 t-shirts.

  49. “… the left does open their minds to new ideas.”
    Whereas the right opens their minds to GOOD ideas. I suppose in 10-20 years time you’ll support legislation to ban SSM because it’s a “new” idea.
    “…tolerance of others who are non-white and/or non-christian.”
    People who talk about “tolerance” – god I hate that word, it should be banished from the language – are generally the least tolerant.

  50. I will be willing to say that Trudeau was an excellent salesman and he certainly had a vision, unfortunately for us he succeeded in shoving that vision down our throats.
    Saskboy
    Alberta has the right to handle it’s resources the way it wants, the Federal government has little say over the handling of resources within a Province. Also it was the Liberals that did nothing but talk as far dealing with the environmental reforms for the last decade.
    albatros39a
    Actually most immigrants views fit closer with the CPC views than the left’s. The Liberals have tried using the “big bad CPC” to scare them to vote for them, but that will shortly come to an end. Your post also seems to indicate that you believe the myth that only white people are racist, you need to get out more, all races suffer from racism. Also your posts about people that do not share your views are quite derogatory and would be considered a form of discrimination going by the rules of my workplace.

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