Canada's best prime ministers - Canada - Macleans.ca

Harper is one of a select few Canadian leaders to have won three consecutive federal elections.

what Harper will make of his new lease on parliamentary life, and what history will make of him.

What’s striking is the similarity of the rankings across demographic groups. Regardless of the age, political affiliation, gender, region, or area of expertise of the experts,

the Trudeau panache: “He gave Canada an image, an edge—and a Constitution.” “Without Trudeau,” his biographer John English assured us, “Quebec would be an independent country today.”

Trudeau’s response to the economic challenges of the 1970s—inflation, unemployment, large budgetary deficits, and low growth rates—brought him further criticism. “The most overrated prime minister in Canadian history,”