| From: Colin McGregor via talk <[email protected]>
Interesting report!
Some nit picking of the answers. Just from my memory -- there are
surely other bugs. Summary: don't trust these models! They don't do very
basic fact-checking.
| > Who was Canada's best Prime Minister?
Why are all the answer Liberal prime ministers (except for John A.)?
| 1. Sir John A. Macdonald (1867-1873, 1878-1880):
| and he also negotiated the
| Northwest Passage Agreement with the United States, securing Canada's
| western border.
Google finds no "Northwest Passage Agreement".
| 2. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1921-1930, 1935-1948):
Not exactly. He lost power in 1926 June and regained it in 1926
September. Remember the King-Byng constitutional crisis?
| King was a
| skilled diplomat and leader who guided Canada through two major
| crises: World War I
Really? He wasn't even a member of parliament doring the Great War.
| 5. Jean Chrétien (1993-2003): Chrétien is credited with helping to
| stabilize Canada's economy and promote international trade. He also
| played a key role in the Belfast Agreement, which brought an end to
| the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Additionally, he implemented
| policies that helped to promote diversity and inclusion within
| Canadian society.
I don't remember Cretien being part of Belfast Agreement (better known
as the Good Friday Agreement). Retired General John de Chastelain was
one of the three commissioners of the Independed International
Commission on Decommissioning.
Off the top of my head, there are a couple of high points in Cretien's years:
avoiding the Iraq War and imposing election financing limits (a poison pill
for Martin, but still a Very Good Thing; contrast with US!).
Cretien and Martin are jointly credited with drastically and painfully
improving Canada's finances in the 1990's
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| > Who was Canada's best Prime Minister?
| 5. Jean Chrétien (1993-2003): Chrétien's tenure saw significant
| economic growth, the repayment of Canada's national debt, and the
| negotiation of several major international agreements, including the
| Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
No: the FTA was Brian Mulroney.
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