To: Copperfield who wrote (5817 ) 7/5/2005 12:48:05 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to That's off in the world of What If, kind of nebulous, can be interesting but it takes time and can never be nailed down ... so it's hard to say, but i think Stanfield was the better man for the role of prime minister ... a bit reddish for a tory, that did fit the times though, it was the heyday of big government ... the whole world was lost in some ways, nobody knew what to do about inflation, it was largely imported to us anyway ... the reign of Trudeau launched us strong on the way to huge national debt that we still aren't paying off much, i'd like to think Stanfield would have done better in that regard ... he certainly wouldn't have divided the country the way T did, in alienating the west, he didn't have a shred of T's snotty arrogance, he was a gentleman ... too much of a gentleman to win elections, there's the rub, he wouldn't get down and dirty when he had plenty of mud to throw back at the Liberals ... he was genuine, a straight shooter, he was also able to listen, this is a quality that befits a leader of a democracy ... canadians at the time preferred image over substance, still do in many ways, so what we get is our own damn faultdid , in fact, do this) ... 'en.wikipedia.org
