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| Trudeau vs Trudeau and Canadian Prime Ministers | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 21 2015, 10:54 AM (9 Views) | |
| ♥ Rach ♥ | Oct 21 2015, 10:54 AM Post #1 |
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I've been pretty fascinated lately with the school background of Canada's Prime Ministers. Justin Trudeau has a Bachelors of English from McGill and went to Teachers College at UBC. I'm pretty sure this makes him one of the few non-lawyer Prime Ministers, along with Harper who was the first in a long time. Harpers background is both an undergraduate and masters degree in Economics at the University of Calgary. A lot of talk was about how Justin did not have the intelligence of his father and looking at their academic histories, it's clear why. Pierre Trudeau had a law degree from Montreal and a masters from Harvard. He also studied at other Universities, in particular at the London School of Economics for a doctoral program but he never finished it. Clearly, very smart. Of course, smart is not enough to win elections. The last Liberal leader was the anti-Trudeau. Ignatieff led them to their worst ever result despite being a professor and teaching at the University of Toronto and Harvard. Likely the smartest academic ever to run a major party in Canada. The smartest Prime Minister, at least from an Academic point of view had to have been William Lyon Mackenzie King, who had multiple degrees and was the only PM to have a PhD. What I find so fascinating about King, is that he was the longest serving Prime Minister but was completely unloved and rarely admired. Never married (which must be considered bizarre for most countries leaders) and was a closet spiritualist (he apparently thought he could communicate with spirits). He lacked a presence, was not charismatic and was not considered a good public speaker. His writing was considered great, but was academic. Yet he was able to be Prime Minister the longest through World War Two for a total of 21 years. Pretty weird. |
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