{"id":467,"date":"2005-09-14T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=467"},"modified":"2005-09-14T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T16:30:00","slug":"the-great-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"The Great One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After three weeks of voting, the field is down to two: John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s first two long-serving PMs. While it’s tempting to imagine this vote will break down on Liberal\/Conservative lines, these are leaders from a time when the words meant something different. Laurier championed provincial rights and supported free trade. Macdonald believed in government intervention and created the tariff to help Ontario business.<\/p>\n

I have no idea which of the two will win, but you can make a good case for either. And that’s exactly what I’ll be trying to do over the next week.<\/p>\n

(4) Laurier (<\/strong>def Meighen 76-24, def Chretien 75-25, def King 66-34)
(2)<\/strong> Macdonald<\/strong> (def Campbell 92-8, def Mulroney 73-27, def Trudeau 65-35)<\/p>\n

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Greatest Prime Minister – Final Round<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Matchup<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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bio<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(2) John A. MacDonald<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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bio<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(4) Wilfrid Laurier<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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After three weeks of voting, the field is down to two: John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s first two long-serving PMs. While it’s tempting to imagine this vote will break down on Liberal\/Conservative lines, these are leaders from a time when the words meant something different. Laurier championed provincial rights and supported free trade. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}