“You might say there’s an exception with Pierre Trudeau because he still seems to loom large in the memories of the baby boomers and others, but the other prime ministers, we don’t really hear about them in the public conversation. And that could be anyone from Louis St. Laurent, to John Diefenbaker, even to a lesser extent Brian Mulroney, although he has been talked about a little bit because of his recent death. And then of course, John A. Macdonald gets talked about because of controversies about the removal of the statues and such, but we don’t have a good grasp of what kinds of legacies prime ministers left behind and what the consequences of their decisions have been, both for the good and the ill, and how they’ve managed the federation,” Stewart said.
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