012.Old White Guys from 1891-1895
Posted by holdourdominion on October 12, 2009
The great thing about being Governor General is that if you really despise someone you can make sure they never become Prime Minister. This may also be an argument for why we shouldn’t have a Governor General.
I’ve been thinking of retitling this site “Old White Guys from 1850-1917″ because it seems like that’s all I talk about especially Mackenzie Bowell who makes his second (third?) appearance here. But I know you all love Mackenzie Bowell, that lovable yet incompetent PM. In some ways Aberdeen was right because probably the only person who was a worse PM than Bowell was Tupper. So it was a small step up anyway. Thankfully, neither of them spent a long time in office. This was part of the “4 PMs over 4 Years” period of 1891-1895. The only not-incompetent one was Thompson, but he had the unfortunate luck of dieing in office which paved the way for Mackenzie Bowell.
