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{{quote|''I hate politics, and what are considered their appropriate methods. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of that is apparently the necessary incident of politics – except doing public work to the best of my ability.''|John Abbott, 12 days before becoming Prime Minster of Canada}}
[[Canada]] has had a wide variety of Prime Ministers since 1867, ranging from staid to flamboyant to ... well ... odd.
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* Arthur Meighen (again, Conservative, 1926)
* William Lyon Mackenzie King (again, Liberal, 1926-1930)
* R. B. Bennett (Conservative, 1930-1935) - Had the misfortune to be Prime Minister during the beginning of the Great Depression. Best-known nowadays for "Bennett Buggies" - motorcars pulled by horses because the owners couldn't afford fuel.
* William Lyon Mackenzie King (one more time, Liberal, 1935-1948) - Staid, never-married, known now (but not while he was Prime Minister) to employ mediums so he could consult dead colleagues and his dead mother.
* Louis St. Laurent (Liberal, 1948-1957)
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