{"id":3070,"date":"2011-06-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2011-06-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:00:00","slug":"whos-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"Who’s on top?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Macleans updates it’s 1997 list ranking Canada’s Best PMs, and produces the following top 10<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Wilf
2. Johnny Mac
3. The Lyon
4. Mikey B
5. PET
6. JC
7. Uncle Louis
8. Robbie B
9. Lyin’ Brian
10. The Chief<\/p>\n

From top to bottom, it’s a well researched and thoughtful list. As someone who has read many Prime Ministerial bios and studied this in school, I’m not sure I would have shifted anyone on the list by more than a few spots from where they wound up (though I’d personally rank Macdonald first).<\/p>\n

As some of you may recall, I ran a bracket-style contest along these lines on this blog in 2005 and, sure enough, Laurier defeated Macdonald<\/a> in the final by a 403-340 vote. King and Trudeau both fell in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

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Macleans updates it’s 1997 list ranking Canada’s Best PMs, and produces the following top 10: 1. Wilf2. Johnny Mac3. The Lyon4. Mikey B5. PET6. JC7. Uncle Louis8. Robbie B9. Lyin’ Brian10. The Chief From top to bottom, it’s a well researched and thoughtful list. As someone who has read many Prime Ministerial bios and studied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}