The Greatest Canadian

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by bcdphie
As already mentioned - Tommy Douglas is the greatest Canadian.

did he play Chong in the Cheech & Chong movies?

[NeonPi]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
I don't think Trudeau is worthy of the greatest Canadian title, but maybe that's because I wasn't around for Trudeau-Mania. And that's my theory, there are far too many people left in this country that were Trudeau groupies and that's how he made the list.

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Originally posted by CutiePie2000
...Now that Trudeau is dead, why is everyone slobbering over how great he was? Didn't he pretty much screw over Alberta with the PETRO-CANADA fiasco?

Oh, he tried (PETRO), but frankly, I like Trudeau because he felt VERY storngly about protecting and ensuring individual rights with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and having Canada be able to control its own destiny with expatriating the BNA Act out of Great Britain and back to Canada.

That and I love his quote "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the country".

Oh, and the time he came out West and flipped the bird - hilarious! Can you imagine GWB doing that (but he WAS funny about being "waved by all 5 fingers" during his visit to Ottawa).

On a funny note - I remember some assignment we had about making up an acronym in Grade 7 - my girlfriend used Petro-Canada:

"Pierre Elliott Trudeau Rips Off Canada"

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
did he play Chong in the Cheech & Chong movies?

Do you have anything intelligent to say?

Maybe something funny?

Or is it the fact that you can't read?

[ThetokenCanuck]

The Barenaked Ladies made a comment on the greatest Canadian and Celine Dion..basicaly saying oh yeah Celine Dion is the greatest Canadian who has moved to Las Vegas and is paying soo much money *sarcasticaly* into the important social programs of Canada..and she ahs made great contributions..i mean where would Canada be without the New Air Canada song?

I thought it was funny and true.

Tommy Douglas is the greatest Canadian. He had the vision and everyone borrowed it.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by ThetokenCanuck
...Tommy Douglas is the greatest Canadian. He had the vision and everyone borrowed it.

But Tommy did borrow his vision for socialized medicine from England.

[ThetokenCanuck]

okay okay lol if we are being "technical" just kidding..i just meant that he was the most original-he presented these ideas to Canadians first and then everyone else copied them.

[_Opi_]

Jim Carrey---nuff said.