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Thread #115415   Message #2470456
Posted By: Cluin
20-Oct-08 - 12:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Big Goofy Head Party (Canadian Politics)
Subject: RE: BS: Big Goofy Head Party (Canadian Politics)
Sir Wilfred Laurier, our 7th PM, the Great Compromiser.

Only slightly Goofy looking, he was a long-timer: 45 years in the House, a 15 year unbroken term of office as PM, 4 consecutive election victories (majority governments, too), and over 31 years as leader of the Liberal Party.

Gotta take your hat off to that one. He made his Goofyness go a long way.

He's on our commonest and smallest denomination of paper currency, the $5 bill... the "Wilfy".