Juno News - March 10, 2019


Who was the best Prime Minister of the past 50 years？

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Stephen Harper Pierre Trudeau Justin Trudeau Brian Mulroney Andrew Scheer Jagmeet Singh Jean Chrétien Kim Campbell John Turner Joe Clark Nadja Maya
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3 minutes

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172.14

Word count

682

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45


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Canadians think Stephen Harper is the best PM of the past 50 years, and Justin Trudeau is the worst PM in recent memory, according to a new poll. What does that tell us about the direction of Canadian politics?

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00:00:00.000 If there was a big poll that came out from a top pollster in this country
00:00:09.060 asking who was the greatest prime minister in recent history,
00:00:13.120 you'd think Canadians would hear about it.
00:00:15.020 You'd think it would make the news, right?
00:00:18.040 Wrong. Not so much in this case.
00:00:20.180 Leger, one of the top pollsters, they're based out of Montreal,
00:00:23.660 they ask Canadians a whole bunch of questions about the political scene,
00:00:26.840 mostly about today, asking who would win if there's an election,
00:00:30.320 Justin Trudeau, Andrew Scheer, Jagmeet Singh.
00:00:33.240 But they also asked in the second half of their survey another very interesting question.
00:00:38.180 Who was the best prime minister of the past 50 years?
00:00:42.600 This came out a few weeks ago. Canadians have hardly heard about this.
00:00:46.160 It has hardly been reported.
00:00:48.860 Maybe that has to do with the fact that LabScam is big in the news right now,
00:00:52.200 taking up all the oxygen.
00:00:53.200 Perhaps, although this poll came out after LabScam was first reported,
00:00:58.720 but before things really kicked into high gear.
00:01:01.380 Maybe it has to do with what it said.
00:01:03.520 Because guess who's the best prime minister, according to Canadians, in these polls?
00:01:08.320 Stephen Harper.
00:01:09.580 That's right, a plurality of Canadians surveyed.
00:01:12.060 24% say that he is the best prime minister over the last 50 years.
00:01:17.340 And you know who came second?
00:01:18.800 Trudeau.
00:01:20.220 Ah, but not that Trudeau.
00:01:21.920 Not Justin Trudeau, not the current one, the former one.
00:01:25.640 He comes a pretty close second behind Stephen Harper at 22%.
00:01:29.080 Who do we have next?
00:01:30.480 We've got Jean Chrétien at 19%.
00:01:32.680 Then we've got Brian Mulroney at 13%.
00:01:35.260 Who comes after that?
00:01:37.100 Finally, we get to the current office holder,
00:01:39.760 Justin Trudeau, who got the support of only 9% of Canadians,
00:01:44.700 even though he was just elected a few years ago with a majority mandate.
00:01:48.040 And then the ones that come behind him, they are just the ones that served one term,
00:01:51.980 the sort of one-trick pony, one-hit wonder people like Kim Campbell and Joe Clark and John Turner.
00:01:58.700 Not really good for Trudeau to be sitting at the back of the pack with all of them.
00:02:03.500 Certainly not suggestive that he's someone they consider as a legacy-building prime minister,
00:02:08.200 like Stephen Harper and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
00:02:10.440 Even though they are two very different leaders, they certainly have very identifiable legacies.
00:02:16.040 What does that tell us?
00:02:17.000 Well, it tells us a number of things.
00:02:18.660 One, that Justin Trudeau really is not all that popular when you look at the grand scheme of things.
00:02:24.800 Number two, it suggests that if he's going to do all this Stephen Harper fear-mongering,
00:02:29.700 which we know he's continuing to do,
00:02:31.480 the past three years he's managed to blame absolutely everything on Harper.
00:02:34.880 Make no mistake, the Conservatives pretend to be for the people.
00:02:40.900 But that couldn't be further from the truth.
00:02:43.320 This is still very much the party of Stephen Harper.
00:02:47.280 That might not be so much of a wise idea,
00:02:50.500 because more Canadians say Stephen Harper is the best prime minister of the past half century
00:02:56.340 than any other prime minister.
00:02:58.660 And, you know, it's maybe not too hard to see why they would be attracted to Stephen Harper right now.
00:03:05.440 We're watching this sort of turmoil and all the topsy-turvy-ness of the Justin Trudeau years,
00:03:10.640 and whatever you thought of Stephen Harper's policies collectively,
00:03:14.900 and not everybody liked everything about him,
00:03:17.000 it was a pretty smoothly run operation and a relatively pretty calm machine,
00:03:21.820 all things considered, at least compared to what we're seeing now.
00:03:24.960 Leger marketing poll, there you have it.
00:03:27.160 What do you think?
00:03:28.660 What do you think it's always fais?
00:03:35.120 I mean, it's the worst thing you lose.
00:03:37.140 The only thing I think it's just one thing you know.
00:03:38.660 There you go.
00:03:39.560 A contemplation only means that motion to go.
00:03:41.760 Giving experience a lot ofRI.
00:03:44.180 So, what?
00:03:46.360 veut really Nadja?
00:03:49.600 Trust me.
00:03:49.900 What do you think?
00:03:51.620 I don't know.
00:03:53.380 Oh, it's my last time.
00:03:55.260 I wonder any other things about Maya?
00:03:56.320 I wonder what I'm thinking about.
00:03:57.400 You don't know.