Wilfrid Laurier
“I have had before me as a pillar of fire,” said Wilfrid Laurier, “a policy of true Canadianism, of moderation, of reconciliation.”
Conservative Quebec thought at first he was much too liberal. Loyally British English Canada thought he must be too French. Even some of his parliamentary colleagues thought he was too young, too intellectual, and maybe even too lazy to succeed as prime minister. But his passionate commitment to Canada as a partnership of French and English made him one of Canada’s great leaders and the first francophone prime minister.
