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Why Gwyn wants to bring Macdonald back into the national consciousness

And why Richard Gwyn thinks Prime Minister Harper's been reading John A. Macdonald's rule book on politics

Sir John A. Macdonald was a well-known binge-drinking drunk who would go on benders with his buddy D'Arcy McGee. He manipulated people, used people, was not personally corrupt, but was corrupt, used patronage to an art form, could be completely wrong, made major mistakes–such as the CPR sca...

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