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View Poll Results: So, who is the Greatest Canadian?

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  • Pierre Trudeau

    3 12.00%
  • Lester B. Pearson

    1 4.00%
  • Thommy Douglas

    2 8.00%
  • Terry Fox

    2 8.00%
  • Wayne Gretzsky

    6 24.00%
  • Don Cherry

    0 0%
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    7 28.00%
  • David Suzuki

    1 4.00%
  • Sir Frederick Banting

    3 12.00%
  • Sir John A. MacDonald

    0 0%
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    Quote Originally Posted by latenight
    He has had more of an effect on ME than any of the others.
    What effect did he have on Men's Epee?

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    I'm boycotting this poll. No Rocky and Bullwinkle?! Travesty. This may be the last straw Canada!
    "Since when does being a patriot in America mean shutting your mouth?"
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    Bell, of course! I couldn't imagine my life without a phone (that makes me jump out of the bathtub )
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    Gretzky is probably the most famous Canadian, but greatest is really a bit o' a stretch.
    Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, and its all organized by the Swiss.

    Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians.

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    Just so you all know, Tommy Douglas won the CBC poll.
    Don’t use big words when diminutive phraseology will suffice

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    I couldn't believe Don Cherry made it into the top 10.

    Key-rist.

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    I vote for Terrance and Phillip from South Park.
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    Quote Originally Posted by esskreemr
    I'm boycotting this poll. No Rocky and Bullwinkle?! Travesty. This may be the last straw Canada!
    Isn't Frostbite Falls in Minnesota?

    Perhaps you mean Dudley DooRight (sp?) ?
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    I don't get why Trudeau got only three votes! He was one of Canada's most wonderful and charismatic political leaders! He even famously declared that, "The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation". For chrissakes, even teenage girls screamed whenever he appeared publicly!

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    Perhaps because he was more flamboyant than important, and though he did get the rights charter passed, he eventually far outstayed his welcome and thus his final impression was not one of triumph but of outdated irrelevance.
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    I don't get why Trudeau got only three votes! He was one of Canada's most wonderful and charismatic political leaders! He even famously declared that, "The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation". For chrissakes, even teenage girls screamed whenever he appeared publicly!
    Can't forget NEP either. I never figured it was an issue until I moved to Alberta. Holy jumping. They're still pissed about it. *I* can't believe Pearson hasn't gotten any votes at all.
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    Quite right- Pearson might well rate as the best PM ever... Trudeau was good to of corse (noting that I was 2 when he retired, and Pearson was before my time completly)
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    I voted for Banting.

    If not for him my brother would be dead and millions others.

    Not even the great Communist Tommy Douglas can boast that fact. ( And indeed he tried to as the politician he is!!!!)

    Point of fact...I have formally written the CBC and the CRTC about factual errors made on the program "The Greatest Canadian" which had lies in it. LIES!!!
    Is that how we vote the greatest Canadian??? I hope he wan't voted the Greatest on the factual errors made which Strombopolous presented the program.

    Geeeezzeee.........
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