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“’It’s very simple: no Macdonald, no Canada. No federal board has the right to cancel the first Prime Minister of our country,’ Poilievre said.” Pierre can get carried away sometimes. Macdonald was arguably our greatest Prime Minister ever, but there were many Fathers of Confederation, not just Macdonald. Macdonald never even favoured the federal union of British North America that was finally adopted. He preferred a union where the colonial legislatures simply disappeared and there would be one Canadian legislature. It was George Brown and George-Étienne Cartier who pushed the idea of a federal union forward to the point where Macdonald, being the clever man he was, saw that this train was going to leave the station with or without him and he had better get on board.

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