{"id":469,"date":"2005-09-15T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=469"},"modified":"2005-09-15T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T20:04:00","slug":"pm-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"PM Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the final round of Greatest Prime Minister<\/a>, here are several rankings of Canadian PM’s I’ve managed to collect (once again, Bastards and Boneheads <\/a>proved to be a great source for this).<\/p>\n

The Maclean’s Study<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Great:<\/strong>
1.William Lyon Mackenzie King
2. Sir John A. Macdonald
3. Sir Wilfrid Laurier<\/p>\n

Near-Great:<\/strong>
4. Louis Saint-Laurent<\/p>\n

High-Average:<\/strong>
5. Pierre Elliott Trudeau
6. Lester Pearson
7. Sir Robert Borden<\/p>\n

Average:<\/strong>
8. Brian Mulroney
9. Jean Chr\u00e9tien*
10. Sir John Thompson
11. Alexander Mackenzie
12. R.B. Bennett
13. John Diefenbaker<\/p>\n

Low-Average:<\/strong>
14. Arthur Meighen
15. Joe Clark<\/p>\n

Failure:<\/strong>
16. Sir Charles Tupper
17. Sir John Abbott
18. John Turner
19. Sir Mackenzie Bowell
20. Kim Campbel<\/p>\n

*this study was done in 1997<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian Mulroney Ranking<\/strong>
<\/u>1. John A. MacDonald
2. Brian Mulroney
(3-21 are ambiguous, although Pierre Trudeau is near the bottom)<\/p>\n

Canadian Mint Ranking<\/u><\/strong>
Borden 100$
King 50$
Macdonald 10$
Laurier 5$<\/p>\n

Bastards and Boneheads Ranking<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greats:<\/strong>
1. Macdonald
2. Trudeau<\/p>\n

The High-Averages:<\/strong>
3. King
4. Laurier
5. Borden
6. St. Laurent
7. Pearson<\/p>\n

The Adequates:<\/strong>
8. Mackenzie
9. Thompson<\/p>\n

The Disasters:<\/strong>
10. Bennett
11. Diefenbaker
12. Mulroney<\/p>\n

My Own Personal Rankings<\/u><\/strong>
Yes, I’m aware of my bias, but this is how I’d put the list together<\/em>
1. Trudeau
2. Macdonald
3. Laurier
4. King
5. Chretien
6. Borden
7. Pearson
8. St. Laurent
9. Diefenbaker
10. Thompson
11. Mackenzie
12. Bennett
13. Clark
14. Mulroney
15. Meighen
16. Tupper
17. Abbott
18. Turner
19. Bowell
20. Campbell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of the final round of Greatest Prime Minister, here are several rankings of Canadian PM’s I’ve managed to collect (once again, Bastards and Boneheads proved to be a great source for this). The Maclean’s Study Great:1.William Lyon Mackenzie King2. Sir John A. Macdonald3. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Near-Great:4. Louis Saint-Laurent High-Average:5. Pierre Elliott Trudeau6. […]<\/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-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}