{"id":994,"date":"2006-07-07T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=994"},"modified":"2006-07-07T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T04:32:00","slug":"what-if-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"What If Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from the feedback, I\u2019ve decided to follow up last year\u2019s \u201cGreatest Prime Minister\u201d contest with a \u201cGreatest Prime Minister\u2026We Never Had\u201d. The question is simple \u201cWhich politician who never rose to the highest office would have made for our finest Prime Minister?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still toying around with format, but I suspect there will be an open round with four groups (likely geographic regions), to narrow the field down to eight. At that point, the candidates will be bracketed and will face off one-on-one in knock out matches until a winner is crowned.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike with Greatest PM, the field is close to infinite here so I\u2019m opening the floor up for nominations. Below are a few of the candidates who I think should be included; any other suggestions will be added to the list for first round. So let&#8217;s hear some names of who you think would have made for a great Prime Minister if given the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stanfield<br \/>Joey Smallwood<br \/>Frank McKenna<br \/>John Crosbie<br \/>Joseph Howe<br \/>Allan MacEachen<br \/>George Murray<br \/>Jean Lesage<br \/>George Etienne Cartier<br \/>Ernest Lapointe<br \/>Rene Levesque<br \/>Lucien Bouchard<br \/>Ed Broadbent<br \/>Mitchell Sharp<br \/>Paul Martin Sr.<br \/>CD Howe<br \/>Oliver Mowat<br \/>Bill Davis<br \/>David Lewis<br \/>Agnes McPhail<br \/>Flora MacDonald<br \/>John Manley<br \/>Sheila Copps<br \/>John Bracken<br \/>Preston Manning<br \/>Tommy Douglas<br \/>JS Woodsworth<br \/>HH Stevens<br \/>Lloyd Axworthy<br \/>Peter Lougheed<br \/>Ernest Manning<br \/>Nellie McClung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from the feedback, I\u2019ve decided to follow up last year\u2019s \u201cGreatest Prime Minister\u201d contest with a \u201cGreatest Prime Minister\u2026We Never Had\u201d. The question is simple \u201cWhich politician who never rose to the highest office would have made for our finest Prime Minister?\u201d. I\u2019m still toying around with format, but I suspect there will be [&hellip;]<\/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-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}