{"id":13408,"date":"2021-05-15T22:20:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2021-05-16T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:31:04","slug":"quotes-of-canadas-prime-ministers-through-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13408","title":{"rendered":"Quotes of Canada&#8217;s Prime Ministers through the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/macdonald-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/macdonald-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/macdonald-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/macdonald.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13413 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NI_Trudeau-Sept2020-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NI_Trudeau-Sept2020-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NI_Trudeau-Sept2020-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NI_Trudeau-Sept2020-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NI_Trudeau-Sept2020-624x390.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NI_Trudeau-Sept2020.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Canada&#8217;s Prime Ministers<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ <em>from Sir John A Macdonald to Justin Trudeau<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Favourite Quotes of Sir John A. Macdonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Quotes from PM John G. Diefenbaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Election Memes<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 classic political memes (since 2015)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=13323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Justin Trudeau<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Father and Son Trudeau, and Canada Then and Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Did our next Prime Minister really say that?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=9753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Trudeau memes re the #KokaneeGrope<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Wells on Stephen Harper<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Stephen Harper<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Paul Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Jean Chretien<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Brian Mulroney<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PMs Joe Clark, John Turner and Kim Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Question: Was Pierre Trudeau a disaster?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Trudeauisms on government<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pierre Elliott Trudeau&#8217;s Trudeauisms<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interesting Facts about Canada&#8217;s and US&#8217;s Leaders<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Lester B. Pearson<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More political musings from &#8220;The Chief&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John George Diefenbaker on politics and Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PM Louis St. Laurent on Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PM WL Mackenzie King on Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PMs Arthur Meighen and RB Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If you were Prime Minister&#8230; (a classic joke)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes of PM Sir Robert Borden<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PM Sir Wilfrid Laurier Quotes<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quotes from Canada&#8217;s earliest PMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=12656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In defence of Sir John A. Macdonald and his legacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Quotes of Sir John A. Macdonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada&#8217;s Prime Ministers on Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Parliament2-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Parliament2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Parliament2-1-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Parliament2-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chris George<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ChrisG.George@gmail.com\">ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Canada&#8217;s Prime Ministers ~ from Sir John A Macdonald to Justin Trudeau 10 Favourite Quotes of Sir John A. Macdonald More Quotes from PM John G. Diefenbaker Federal Election Memes 12 classic political memes (since 2015) Quotes of PM Justin Trudeau Father and Son Trudeau, and Canada Then and Now Did our next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,30,32,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13414,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13408\/revisions\/13414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}