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I once heard a Canadian comedian say something like:
“I was in a mall in the States and I saw a child’s shirt that read FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. And I thought ‘You don’t see Canadian kids with shirts that read FUTURE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA. Because frankly, we expect more from our children.’”
There was a whole Canadian game show based around kids trying to prove they had what it took to be the next prime minister.
@@JJMcCullough when was that? It sounds fascinating. Did they ever come up with a definitive list of what it would take to be Prime Minister?
@@JJMcCullough If they used the current prime minister as a standard, it would be a Halloween costume contest.
@@JJMcCullough what's its name
@@herberthoover1790 pretty sure it's "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister"
I like how Canada's two major parties have nice, simple descriptive names. The names "Republican" and "Democrat" aren't very informative from a policy standpoint. Australia's Liberal Party is a right wing party. Jamaica's Labour Party is a right wing party. With Canada, what you see is what you get.
We also have a green party and a french nationalist party for quebec called the Bloc Québécois which are also self explanatory names. We have a social democratic party called the New Democratic party which isn’t a self explanatory name.
Canada's party names may be simple, but they are not descriptive. There is nothing conservative about our "Conservative" Party. They are left of center on pretty much every issue.
It's kind of overly simplistic to say that. For example, the modern Conservative party of Canada has a significant amount of right wing (in the direction of Trump) that isn't necessarily "Conservative". Harper in particularly muzzled scientists that tried to talk about climate change. Other people see Trudeau(s) - both of them as being dictators. Albertans, in particular, HATE old Trudeau because he cost Albertans a lot of their fortune.
I actually think the name of Australia's Liberal party is more correct. Liberalism is governmentally regulated capitalism which the Liberal Party claims to support. (I mean they're very corrupt so they don't).
@@primebandet8937 If they're corrupt, they're not actually liberal then.
"WEIRD PRESIDENTS OBSESSED ADULTS" *photo of mr. beat*
I CANT I'M ACTUALLY WHEEZING
That was quite funny
LMAOOOO
Tre Beau
I don’t know if that is a insult or a complement to Mr. Beat
@@grantlemmenes7348 its an insult but a joke.
How have I become a Prime Minister obsessed Canadian RUclipsr obsessed American 😂. Thank you JJ. Happy Saturday! Your videos always add some peace and learning to my weekends!
JJ’s smile in the opening says “I know you notice the mustache but I will never address it.”
He's mentioned it in other videos, he's right to give the joke a rest for a bit. I'm sure it'll be back.
I dont know man doesnt jj have that smile all the time?
I feel like I moustache him a question about it, but I know he'll shave it for later.
@@General12th sir you need to calm down
I think F tier was overused. I think F tier would be more “notable for being bad” than “completely irrelevant.” Then again it’s all subjective, highly entertaining and educational as always J.J.
I feel like the only problem with that is that Canada really hasn't had that many notably bad prime ministers, they're usually either good or irrelevant
@@matttanner462 well like JJ said.... we cant put Justin Trudeau into a category yet... if we could, he would be an F for complete failure.
@@matttanner462 Stephen Harper
Well it wasn't for what good they did, that'd be a little TOO opinionated, it was how much they did
@@cn2673 Yah Canada had a very good run of leadership from 1993 to 2015. All of Chretien, Martin, and Harper were overall good PMs especially in managing the economy which is what I care about most in politics. After the fiasco of stupid defecits from PET and Mulroney that almost bankrupted the country, it was good that those guys were able to right the ship...until we're back to the same ways again...
The little pause after “peace in the Middle East” killed me. Like as if 😂
The Middle Eastern crisis that Pearson resolved was the 1956 Suez Crisis, which had nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Palestinian dispute, which itself did not start until after the 1967 war.
Pearson's solution was successful in that it has (thus far) stood the test of time. The U.K. permanently recognized Egypt's control over the Suez Canal. Egypt never more had to worry about being invaded by the U.K. or France.
Also it established Canada's reputation as an honest broker for international negotiations, busting the prior-held belief that Canada was just England's b****.
@@alfredogoyburu1129 Calm down
@@JJMcCullough lol
@@JJMcCullough I’m waiting for Mr. Beat to make a joke about you in a video
@@JJMcCullough, well said!
The fact that the first prime minister of Canada actually got portraits of himself painted the same exact way as George Washington is probably the most insecure Canadian thing I’ve ever heard of 😂😂 love your videos JJ
well, there was almost a hundred years between the two portraits
We’ve had an identity crisis for a long time
This didn't age well considering the liberal lost the popular vote and has become a minority goverment LMAO
@Ryan lex Wym, this was made like 4 days ago which is long after the last election?
as most politicians and heads of state worldwide used that same stance, the argument is ridiculous
JJ: "I'm making a 'Tier list of Canadian Prime ministers'"
Kim Campbell: "Why do I hear boss music?"
*Mortal Kombat voice* FINISH HER!
It's funny, even staunch conservatives hate her. Just how the F did it happen?
I'd know why she is hated
@@nochance1013 No, I don't mean “how did she become so hated”, I mean “how did she ever become Prime Minister! The answer to the first question is pretty obvious I think! 🤣😂🤣😂
😭
As an American, these are the types of videos I like to see. Thanks JJ, you're awesome.
Getting a prime minister video presented by JJ’s award winning moustache is the highlight of my Saturday.
*not award-winning
@@ryanfoley5410 nah, it won the award for the best Canadian RUclipsr moustache I've seen today
@@matthew6863 then I stand corrected
Please do a deep dive on Lester Pearson. He accomplished a lot in just five years, despite having only minority government, from day one to the end. Pearson was a lightweight, but punched far above that weight.
1) Established Canada's national national health care system,
2) Articulated the bilingualism project, often credited to P E Trudeau, through his 6 April 1966 Commons speech,
3) Established the unitary Canadian armed forces,
4) Established the 40-hour work week, two-week vacation, and the minimum wage,
5) Kept Canada out of the Vietnam War, breaking with the precedent that Canada set by sending troops to Korea.
The Mr. Beat comparison got me chuckling
Same😂😂😂 (Sorry Mr. beat)
Yes 😂
Warren Beatty is truly the best Canadian prime minister youtuber
I've lived in Canada for almost 20 years and I've never heard anyone pronounce about that way, I always thought it was just a joke Americans ran on Canadians
It is he’s just overplaying it I think. It’s a schtick.
It's just Canadian refusing to make "oWWWW" a vowel.
He also pronounced Meighan differently then I ever hear it . The family member I met used a long E as in “ ME - in”
i love how unbiased jj is, a known conservative yet there is a sea of red towards the top of the tier list
This is basically a "how much did they change Canada?" tier-list, setting aside the subjective question of whether those changes were good or bad
@@alexpotts6520 Exactly. PET was around for a long time and did a lot, but I would argue his policies did more damage than good.
Let me guess, Harper is at the top lol
@@shibbyjim nope
@@stonewolf5613 Quite surprising considering he has said before he himself considers Harper to be the best or one of... Despite being pretty bad on matters like the economy
As a civics teacher, I'm so thankful that I can use these videos as informative and balanced resources. J.J. has such a great knack for managing to stay true to his own beliefs and yet still create quality balanced work. In an era of A.I. slop, J.J. continues to deliver gold.
9:12 what a comfortable and natural pause for an event that was fully resolved.
The trends of 2017 book killed me
Harper: *Constantly mentions John A. MacDonald in his speeches, and compares himself to him.*
Trudeau: *Constantly mentions Wilfred Laurier in his speeches, and compares himself to him.*
seems Trudeau also picked up a few lessons on how to treat the Indigenous peoples from him as well
@@TheKingofRome1 I honestly think both Harper and Trudeau are not very good PMs. And I think Canadians need to look to other alternatives.
@@NicklasZandeVGCP2001 I know, the people's party! (I am just joking, don't kill me)
@@NicklasZandeVGCP2001 I actually didnt like Harper very much at the end that I voted in favour of Trudeau instead, and looking back, in hindsight, I regret that decision. Cant stand Justin. As much as i didnt like Harper, Trudeau is far worse
Nicklas Well, I think all of the Prime Ministers have been kind of crappy. Definitely all of them in my lifetime. We haven’t had any leaders of the stature of Churchill, Kennedy, Thatcher, Reagan or Blair. Then again, it’s also been a while since the UK or USA have either. But I would say that Harper was one of our better PMs, meaning that only half of what he did made me angry.
Another banger. I’d love if you made a video about Pierre Elliot in the style of the older Kim Campbell, Wilfred Laurier, and Mackenzie king videos. Those were very well done, and I’ve long hoped you’d make another like them.
“There’s going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; refuse to give a JJ McCullough video an award, you will be forcefully moved to Quebec”-Stephen Harper, probably
ANYWHERE BUT QUEBEC PLEASE
@@YaBoiSneedMan "God, please not Quebec or Nova Scotia!"
"Where am I?"
"New Brunswick"
"😞"
@@markmayonnaise1163 atleast its not Saskatchewan
@@markmayonnaise1163 LMAO
I learned so much about our Prime Ministers in this 18 minutes than my entire time in school.
Not that we talked about our PMs. It was just learning about MacDonald and Current Events (Harper) in Social Studies
Thats the canadian history alternative to american propaganda....the less you know, the better.
I love learning about Canada with JJ.
Greetings from Colombia!
Martin's tenure coincided with the time I lived and worked in Canada, so he'll always have a special place in my heart. I always associate him with "slowly realizing that staying out of the Iraq War was a great decision," but now I realize Chretien made that call too.
Damn right! Chretien I rank higher than anyone because he was the mixture of all good things. He was an educated, charming and influential man who had a grasp on all the major issues of the time period and I generally rank him higher than the Trudeau's and he is on par with Laurier for me.
@@alexrowdyrodrigues9716 And it seemed the only slander campaign the conservatives (the PC's) could do against him was rudely mocking his facial deformity and lisp. Then the PC's would downfall. I will say though, Meech Lake must've been really hard for Chrétien to deal with. Apparently he tried to avoid discussion of it.
Another fact about Lester B. Pearson is that the US kept on tryig to make him Secretary-General of the UN for some reason
Over here in Australia, we tried to do that with one of our former prime ministers. It's my understanding that they sometimes try to make former leaders, who are still problematic while out of office, be posted to some far away diplomatic position so they have less chance of interfering with either domestic or international policy.
it was an attempt ( much as just happened with Justin Trudeau) for the US to control the security council as the USSR had control then and Russia seems to now
And it was Russia who were the only ones to object to that, all the other countries voted in favor of Pearson.
So what I've decided is:
MacDonald = Canadian Washington
Borden = Canadian Wilson
Meighen = Canadian Harding/Coolidge
Bennett = Canadian Hoover
King = Canadian FDR
St. Laurent = Canadian Truman/Ike
Trudeau Sr. = Canadian Carter but MUCH more successful
Mulroney = Canadian Reagan/Thatcher
Chrétien = Canadian Bill Clinton/Blair
Harper = Canadian Bush Jr.
Trudeau Jr. = Canadian Obama
You are way too generous to Justin or way too insulting of Obama. Trudeau Jr. is more like a Jimmy Carter version of Trump. Whiny, spoiled arrogant brat and stupid clown.
Harper is more like an anti-Bush. Bush was a stupid politician but actually pretty cool guy afterwards and does alpha male things like ducking shoes like a pro and throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game with accuracy and strength. Harper was a brilliant politician but barely qualifies as human saying things like: "Hey everyone, did you know that I like movies and TV shows?".
I guess you could call Trudeau a Canadian Obama because of blackface, but beyond that it is insulting to Obama.
Trudeau Sr. is one of the few major PMs who don't have a clear American analogue, IMO. He's a bit like Carter in his social views, a bit like Kennedy with his personal style, a bit like Nixon with his foreign policy, a bit like LBJ with his domestic policy. To be fair though that probably wasn't an accident, he likely saw those areas as ones in which the US had outpaced Canada in recent decades and wanted to implement those reforms here.
@@Torus2112 Trudeau doesn't have any counterpart in the US because he was ideologically a democratic socialist. He studied under major Marxist theorists at the London School of Economics, and though he shifted right as he aged he was more left wing than any politician who was ever elected in the US to be POTUS.
Wilson was a horrible president though so I dont think Borden lines up, also Trudeau jr is more like a Canadian version of a outhouse in the middle of Texas heatwave
I love your relationship with Mr beat 😂
I'm just jealous cause he is so JACKED
@@JJMcCullough How did I never notice lol
I love how you glossed over Mackenzie King and RB Bennett assisting in laying down the groundwork for the CBC, and John Diefenbaker assisting in laying down the groundwork for the CRTC and the private networks (CTV, Citytv, Global). Edit: Forgot to mention that he also glossed over Louis St. Laurent's involvement in helping bring Newfoundland into the Canadian confederation. And Diefenbaker, Pearson and the senior Trudeau's involvements with the Trans Canada Highway.
RB Bennett was also implemented employment insurance and started the bank of Canada among many other things
@@jameshopper1585 John Turner always maintained RB Bennett was the most underrated PM of all time.
"Canada is like America in oh so many ways"
Queue all my Canadian friends stomping up and down going "No! We are completely different!"
It's often groups that are the most similar that get most heated about the few differences that remain. Catholics and Protestants, Sunni and Shia, Canadians and Americans.
We have FREEEE healthcare and, uh um, we are NICE!
That's more than enough difference for me! /s
We are different for the same reason that American states are also quite different from one another. Our similarities are primarily in the systems we use to try to govern our diverse provinces' populations, but ultimately every province is quite different to one another and to any state in America to varying degrees. It may seem granular and obviously we gave more in common with Americans than say... Nigerians, but I don't think the benchmark of being "like" one another should be set at being more alike to one another than to nations on different continents who are still developing.
Stomp, stomp, stomp!!!!
Edit: sorry.
@@goldengreen7763 sorry for what?
As a Middle Eastern, the pause after “peace in the Middle East” killed me 😂😂😂
9:02 lmao
In fairness he won the Peace Prize for preventing one particular conflict in the Middle East that had the potential for worldwide impact from getting out of hand not for fixing the entirety of conflict in the region.
suez canal man smh learn history
@@KevinSmithGeo yes and resulting in the invention of the peacekeepers
@@KevinSmithGeo He seems to be kind of hailed as one of Canada's best diplomats and prime ministers. His legacy and name just seems so respected, for example Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport being named in his favor, the largest airport in Canada.
I’m a simple man, I see a JJ tier list and I click
It was definitely interesting to me thinking of the parallels between US presidents and Canadian prime ministers in each era. What Brian Mulroney was in CA was Ronald Reagan in US, Jean Chretien to Bill Clinton, Steven Harper to George W Bush, etc.
Oh yeah I saw so many parallels
Harper to Bush didn't seem as strong of a comparison as the others but then I replaced Bush with Cheney and suddenly it works better
Our lists were almost spot on. I thought you’d have put Harper at a B, but your reasoning is solid.
I think those hazy years in the 1890s between MacDonald and Laurier would be interesting to hear more about.
Macdonald
Yeah, I'd have ranked Harper higher. He did a lot of good for the Canadian economy, and he also delivered on a promise that to some degree inspired my vote; scrap the long-gun registry. It was not succeeding in making anyone any more or less safe, but it was draining millions or billions of tax dollars over the years of its existence. I voted for him every chance I got and I'm proud to have done so, a shame how Canada is falling so far and so quickly now under the individual who replaced him. A friendly and maybe hope-inspiring reminder; more Canadians voted Conservative than Liberal in 2019.
JJ is a conservative, so I'm assuming he put him in C-tier because it was probably difficult to rank Harper in an unbiased manner. Although I thought he would put him at a B as well, because he probably personally sees Harper as an A-tier president.
@@greghuf4461
You mean 'prime minister' rather than 'president,' but yeah, he was probably playing it safe or 'being conservative' (pun intended, couldn't help myself) in placing Harper so low.
@@normanmccollum6082 Yeah, for sure. Also, not sure why I wrote president instead of Prime Minister, especially considering I'm Canadian haha
This is one of your best videos! *I love how you interject your own personality and sense of humor into Canadian history* (eg. flashing an image of indigenous people after referring to land as “empty” etc.). It’s intelligent humor but it’s not too subtle so it is lost upon no one 😅🙌😊
You’re an inspiration to all aspiring Canadian prime minister fanatics
Truly for Trudeau a “They say your father was a great man, you must be what’s left” ahhh moment
I never learned anything about the very early 'transitional' leaders in my history curriculum growing up. All of those names were new to me; that shows you how inconsequential they really were lol
to you I guess to people like me very different
The similarity between Jean Chrétien/Paul Martin in canada and Tony Blair/Gordon Brown in the UK is pretty striking
It is kind of fun to compare and contrast characters and plotlines in UK and Canadian politics over the last 42 years. But Blair is held in incredibly poor regard in the UK, especially by left-wingers, isn't he? Whereas in Canada Chrétien is probably the single most well-liked PM since Diefenbaker; even my aunt who lives in rural NS described him as the "Only Liberal I ever voted for."
@@markmayonnaise1163 Yeah, so many people liked Chrétien. He managed to hold the support of both English and French Canadians. Even though the Meech Lake thing was a very difficult matter he never really took a side on. As for Diefenbaker, I feel like not as near as many Canadians like him. I'm not very fond of him either. I hate him for cancelling the Avro Arrow project, but to be fair I'm just an avgeek who likes to see any Canadian aviation program do well.
There's also Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
@@markmayonnaise1163 Why does anyone like that traitor Diefenbaker who sold us out to the US? Instead of having a self sufficient with good exports military industry like Sweden we have nothing
Also Hawke/Keating in Australia
I might have put Thompson into the "D" tier, of the four that succeeded MacDonald he did preside over the Criminal Code being implemented and was doing a reasonably good job of running Canada until his sudden heart attack after two years in office. He feels around par with Martin in that tier.
This has got to be the best "in a nutshell" history of Canadian PMs. Points well taken and you are very articulate. Your distinctive Canadian "out" really puts our national trademark on the production. Awesome!
I get my canadian info from this guy
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His content is number juan
@@yaktojason i hate u
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As a Canadian ex-pat living in Los Angeles, I really appreciate your generous videos. I often refer curious Americans to your RUclips content when they have questions (or stereotypical assumptions) about my homeland. Thanks, J.J.!
Ayyyyy my idea got chosen! Thanks so much J.J.! Awesome video!
I really like the fact that you're so unbiased during these videos. A lot of people on youtube would just rank the ones they like by party, but even though you're a conservative you still ranked everyone very fairly, which is a quality not many people have.
If [My favourite PM] is below a “B” I will riot!!
Well, Pearson got a B, so I won't riot
I'm pissed that Martin is D tier, I love Martin
@@sky.mcfarlane He seemed to make the list more on service time and how influential than anything
Pearson’s Nobel Peace Prize was for his role in the Suez Canal Crisis
Finger reflexes have gone beyond good for a JJ video.
Jean Chretien would be a cool video. For me he represents childhood nostalgia as a kid growing up in the 90s.
But what did he do? All I really know is the Sponsorship scandal and the infamous Shawinigan handshake XD
not letting Canada join the charge into Iraq because our intelligence agency stated beforehand that they had no weapons of Mass Destruction and it was just a ploy to begin a war to feed the Military Industrial Complex that the US is run on. We only joined the War when Harper stepped in and that was 8 wasted years of Canadian bloodshed, death and a waste of resources for a war whose purpose we already knew wasn't accurate to be worth the fight but since Canada is a major ally to the US Harper saw to it for us to join. Which is quite weird because I have friends who are or currently in Military service and they usually prefer to fight in wars with flawed purposes because their patriotism towards Canada is so immense that the reason of war is overshadowed by it's cause and effect. I'd much rather not send our troops anywhere at all to protect them but if they need to be deployed have a more valid reason than they may or may not have really bad weapons but go over there and check please and thx!
He's my favourite PM. Him and Martin as his Finance Minister saved Canada from a debt crisis and oversaw good economic growth towards the end of his term. He also signed several free trade deals and kept Canada whole during the Quebec referendum. Towards the end of his leadership, he passed several environmental acts and supported a bill to legalize gay marriage (it failed, sadly).
@@peterg6695 Yep! Chretien was extremely ahead of his time I don't doubt that if we had him as PM now that this country would be in much better shape!
@@alexrowdyrodrigues9716 sorry but Chretien took us into Afghanistan as the US invoked the one and all clause of the NATO agreement. Harper took us into Iraq in a limited way to challenge ISIS. He unfortunately was more concerned with being Harper than being PM
@@alexrowdyrodrigues9716 don't think so as an example the neocons agreed with every major spending effort of the current government. I don't think any thinking leader would have done any thing different; well at least until it's election time then maybe they will be different
Hey JJ for a video idea I'd like to know what kind of government you think a Canadian-American union should have since you always talk about uniting one day. Would you do a pure Canadian government, a pure American one, or a mixture of the two with your favorite aspects from each. Keep up the good work!
I say no to a Canadian-American union. Just another step towards a one-world government. Look at how the EU is doing. My observation is not so well.
People might be happier if the border was moved to divide both countries into west and east. For example, I think B.C. would rather have Washington (the state, not D.C.) in the same country and put Ontario and Quebec into a different country.
@@patrickmurphy8222 I say no to America as well. Now a Australia, UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Canada trade pack is different. We need to return to our British roots.
IMO Louis St. Laurent is the most underrated PM on the list, the last true great Liberal PM we had and the example of what Liberals of today should be striving and looking up towards. Would really like a full video on him as I feel he's really not talked about enough.
I do agree Louis st laurent is underrated but I personally think that Chretein, Pearson and the Trudeaus were good prime ministers
St. Laurent was the PM during the formation of Newfoundland and Labrador as the tenth province. That's a noteworthy achievement.
Except he is not why.
It's interesting how the length of the term seems to play a big role as an indicator of how good the Prime Minister is. It sorta seems pretty clear that if someone was Prime Minister for 20 years, they would essentially have to be quite important to have lasted that long, and of course a months-long Prime Ministership indicates a general failure. Which I guess makes it a lot easier than evaluating American Presidents, since for obvious reasons every President who didn't enter or leave office in an irregular way served either 4 or 8 years (except FDR's 12). So it feels like there are a lot more mid-tier American Presidents, just because they all tend to be in office for pretty similar lengths of time. Or you have to do a lot more thinking about whether they were good or bad.
If it gives you any satisfaction, Stephen Harper has the honor of being the first Canadian Prime Minister I ever knew about, since I first started becoming aware of world politics in like 2014 or 2015.
It's funny that I have to agree, sharing the same experience with you. I think it was John Oliver back then where I saw that Trudeau was campaigning to replace Harper.
I would personally argue that Chretien's weathering of the Quebec independence movement and his refusal to bring us into Iraq would bump him up to an A rank
I would give him an A rank based solely on the Shawinigan Handshake.
@@rich7447 also a good point
I have a bit of a soft spot for Chretien, though I have some bias as a moderate progressive.
He didn't really transform Canada, but after Trudeau and Muloney nearly made the country insolvent and took the confederation to the brink with constitutional wrangling, more attempts at transformation weren't an option. The country was much more stable after the Chretien-Martin era than it was before it. With worse leadership that didn't take stock of the perilous situation we were in we might look like a bit of a banana republic today.
Sometimes you need to be a B tier guy.
ALSO I REMEMBER SOME GUY IN THE CROWD TRIED TO THROW A PIE IN HIS FACE AND HE DECKED HIM.....no "secret Service Men " men there....just a guy from Shawanigan. He had the balls to defend himself from nuts and not buy into "weapons of mass destruction" nuts like our neighbors in the south.
He also deserves some credit for indirectly helping to get us through the 2008 financial crisis. Canada got through it relatively comfortably partly because we went into it with a massive surplus, which he started building up.
I was literally watching a JJ video right before this was uploaded, class
"20 unbroken years"
"Briefly out of power"
Paul Martin: effectively the Canadian Gordon Brown
I worked as a tour guide at the Albert County Museum and R.B. Bennett Centre for a summer, located around the place Bennett was born. I encourage anyone to go check it out if you live in the area, or are travelling to see the Hopewell Rocks. Bennett wasn't the best Prime Minister, but a lot of his best accomplishments are wrongly associated with MacKenzie King. Bennett is the reason we have the CBC, the National Bank of Canada, the Loonie, and more! His life story was so interesting but not well-known at all, and a video on him would be awesome no doubt!
As a us citizen and history buff, I absolutely love this video and topic!
It's finally here. I could do with a long anticipated thing to watch in this difficult month (bad weather, lots of work to do and rib pain).
As always, very interesting JJ. I too was born in '84, in fact, as I have just found out, exactly one day after Turner left office. Also, I feel Harper was a bit more salient then the column history may put him in, perhaps, because like you, I have a great deal of respect for the man. But, as you said, only time will tell as to what his true relevance will be.
You're by this point THE premier channel in presenting canada's past & present to the rest of the world. Please keep making more.
I like how the “*not award winning” text keeps getting shown for a shorter and shorter period of time
I'd be very interested in a full video on Pierre Trudeau. You'd be a good person to make it. I suspect there are some natural ideological differences between you and him, but I also think you're the kind of person who could do the video while being entertaining and keeping your own views in perspective.
This video is obviously a very broad overview, but I think you give a generally good sense of how the prime ministers are viewed in this country. It's quite difficult to rank prime ministers because our system is such that prime ministers don't have fixed terms. Therefore, some, especially ones replaced right before an election, are basically lame ducks.
It's difficult to compare Turner, Tupper, Campbell, etc, to McDonald, Trudeau or King. What would Turner or Clark have done with more time had they won an election or two?
There are some pretty polarizing prime ministers. Harper is definitely one. Westerners generally liked him. In fact, some would even say he was the one prime minister in Canadian history who truly understood Western Canada. But many people from the big cities in Eastern Canada (Toronto and Montreal) loathed him like no prime minister I've ever seen.
He was important in the sense that he brought a truly new kind of conservatism into Canadian politics, which was never embraced by the PCs or the pre-PC Conservative party, and pretty much ensured the support of 30 per cent of the population.
Pierre Trudeau was another polarizing prime minister, especially in Western Canada. But he's different in that he got some particularly important things done. The impact of the Charter alone makes him one of this country's three or four most important prime ministers. He also still has an important ideological legacy left on Canadian politics of his own, particularly his embrace of multiculturalism and individualism.
Pierre Trudeau is a very fascinating guy because I think as time passes, it is getting increasingly difficult to contextualize him in the context of modern politics. Canada of the 21st century is such a different place than it was even in the 1960s, which I think makes it harder to analyze him in a strictly “partisan” way, even if you wanted to. I get into this a bit of this in my “six classes of Canadian” video.
Harper was great. I especially liked his policy towards the Jewish people and against the Iranian dictatorship.
I think one thing to consider is that some of these people had more success in their political careers, even though they had difficulty as PM. I am thinking of Martin specifically. You talked about him continuing Chretien's economic policies, but in reality they were mostly his from when he was Finance Minister. So, although Martin didn't accomplish much as PM, I think he did accomplish a lot as a parliamentarian.
You mentioned you were born under Turner's premiership. For most of my life I had the same impression, but he was actually voted out a week before I was born. I had the chance to meet Turner once, and said something along the lines of, "I had always thought I was born when you were PM, but you didn't hang on long enough." Talk about putting one's foot in their mouth. I felt so bad immediately after saying it once it dawned on me how he must have taken it. Oh well.
Great video.
0:17 you didn't have to mr beat like that😂
I know this is unrelated, but JJs moustache is fantastic.
I would like to see you to do essentially videos (in the style of your videos on Wilfred Laurier, John A. MacDonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King) on Pierre Trudeau and his tenure as Canadian Prime Minister and Tony Blair as British Prime Minister
Pierce??
I've always said that we Canadians don't vote new governments in, we vote the old ones out. The number of PMs who barely have time for the ink to dry on their change of address forms to 24 Sussex reflects that.
Would greatly appreciate an “award-winning” video on Thompson and Tupper, given their important political careers and the sense of “might-have-been” that I am finding out more about. Definitely interested in John Abbott, only because I’m from Texas and can say “our Governor is not the only guy...” And Mackenzie Bowell because beards.
Hey JJ, maybe next time you do a video meant on the history of Canada you could talk about the Parliament of Canada and the Parliament sessions. What is the biggest accomplishments and faults of every session and their most popular MP.
Hey JJ, i loved that video that was cool!
Is there any chance you could do a video about the Louis Riel and the Red River Rebellion of 1867 and maybe the Metis in general?
I love french canadian culture but Louis riel was stupid
@@fritoss3437 please explain, because i have no idea as an Australian!?
The real reason Canada went through the Great Recession relatively unscathed was due to Paul Martin. When Canadian banks wanted to get into the business of sub-prime mortgages, Martin steadfastly held to the practice that people cannot get a mortgage where their monthly payment was more than 48% of their monthly income. The banks pressed but Martin was resolute. When the housing bubble burst, many Canadians remained solvent. Unfortunately, Harper relaxed the mortgage rules, so now Canadians are at a greater exposure when the bubble will burst, and it will. Thank goodness for Trudeau putting in rules that people applying for mortgages must show that they can service their payments when interest rates rise. But alas, it might not be enough.
He also legalized marriage equality even though the polling showed - & would end up being proven correct - that there was enough socon opposition to it to lead to Harper winning in '06.
@@brucejoel99 He was a visionary politician.
@@CharlieEbbs History has proven that Reagan-style deregulation only benefited rich corporations at the expense of the middle class. You are so correct that the adults in the room were making the decisions.
You missed the classic "Joe who?" joke for Joe Clark - cmon man
Joe Biden: 🤔
Good video. I agree with your rankings.
Interesting to see the pretty even split between C/L. (F tier is skewed C just because of all the 1 years)
Moustache is back! Awesome video.
Man I love your videos on Canada’s prime ministers
Not first but MAN, THE MUSTACHE
If your an OG subscriber you know he used to rock it like that years back now
IT’S BACK
I love your style J.J, your accent. Your hair style, the moustache, your general fashion vibe and your personality. You’re doing a good job with this whole RUclips thing!
Somebody needs to make an Australian PM Tier List
very well done, thank you for this video, it was exactly what I was looking for. I hate to admit, that I'm 34, born and raised in canada and only hearing some of these names for the first time.
9:06 he got his peace prize for his involvment in the Suez crises if you were wondering by the way.
And it’s been tranquil there ever since
@@JJMcCullough he prevented a likely major war and ended up with the first peacekeeping unit as a result. As well as Egypt gaining control of the Suez . the continuing saga of arabs/Israelies is something else entirely
People decry how bad John A McDonald's residential schools were, but maybe remember he was trying to educate native canadians and integrate them into Canada, rather than following the US policy of extermination
The US didn't have a policy of extermination, that's a common misconception. Like all things race related with the Americans, It had a policy of segregation. Place them away from the "honest, upright Christian white people".
There was no active attempt to exterminate Natives in the US anymore than there was one in Canada from all historical evidence. The US however did have more wars with the Native tribes of it's territory cause they were vastly more populous and powerful political entities than the ones of Canada such as the Najvao, the Apache, the Seminoles, 5 "Civilized" tribes etc. Yet the US has far more indigenous people than canada at 5.3 million to Canada's 900K.
A more accurate take on the US is needed, these days it seems people just want to ignore the already shitty enough history of the US and paint the Americans as worse than they actually are.
Canada treated it's natives better, heck canada treats it's white people better lol, but the US was no more attempting to exterminate it's natives than Canada was.
You can check demographic data and historical documents to confirm what im sayings so it's not a "trust me bro" type thing people tend to do online. I really like history and specifically the period :-)
I also think people give historical figures either too much flak or not enough, there's never a nice middle ground.
Great video!! My favorite PM by far is Chrétien. I highly recommend the book ''The Shawinigan Fox'' by conservative consultant Bob Plamondon. The book chronicles the Chrétien years with an emphasis on the ability of the PM to use both conservative and liberal policies to govern effectivaly. I've never seen a good vidéo about the Chrétien consensus yet.
Diefenbaker ended the good times. The man basically surrendered our military independance to the US.
It is now cannon that JJ is the Canadian MrBeat and vice versa!
Can you do a bit on Harper or one of the more recent PM's so that people can get a better idea of how we ended up with JT?
I'd love to see a full video on Chrétien, mainly because I personally think Canada needs another government like that
In what sense ?
This is the perfect balance of history and politics i love to see from your channel
The system of government for choosing their leaders in Canada provides a large amount of prime ministers who have served very short terms
If you look at Australia they have a very similar system and are facing a bit of a rapid fire "who wants to be PM" right now too
It’s not really the system, just that many times the parties themselves kick out the incumbent and replace him with another person to be the leader of the party and in turn PM. Or they just threaten him with it and the incumbent resign on his own. Which is why you have so many 3-4 month PMs
I love how the movie depicts the formation of Canada as quiet, respectful clapping
I at one in the morning: I suddenly have a need to know JJ's opinion about Canada's first ministers
13:06
Babe, are you ok? You’ve barely touched your Reagan-Thatcher-Mulroney peas
Make a video about Paul Martin’s career. I never thought he got a truly fair shake as PM. I think if Chrétien retired a few years earlier then he could have been more consequential. As finance minister for most of the 90’s I think he could be a very seen as a very influential “Robin” to Chretien’s “Batman”.
You have done an excellent job on the history of the Canadian PMs. Well done!
I would love to see a video about Canada during wwII
that would be extensive and thus takes some time
Thanks for this, I showed it to Jake, I forgot to let you know.
And by the way, it's Jake that subscribed to you, not me. I hadn't heard of you. Great work!
Who's Jake?
Harper united the Conservative Party and made it competitive, which I think was his biggest accomplishment. And, he was probably the only prominent/skilled politician of that era who could have got the job done. Had he not united the Conservative Party, there would have been no viable alternative to the Liberal Party. I think his policies favoured the baby boom generation to the detriment of younger generations. I was happy to see him come and by the time he left I was happy to see him go.
Thanks for the history lesson on the Prime Ministers of Canada. I did not know much about them before and understand where you guys are coming from a little better now.
It makes me chuckle a little seeing that Liberals in Canada are associated with red and Conservatives with blue.
In the U.S. Democrats/Liberals are blue and Republicans/Conservatives are red. Although Canadian conservatives seem more liberal than Conservatives in the U.S.
If you wanted some ideas for upcoming video, here are a few. Some of these topics are a little controvercial, but you have a very balanced way of presenting both sides of an issue:
-Shots being offered to Canadian childen 12 years and older, without parents permission with the incentive of an ice cream cone.
-Pastors in Canada being removed in handcuffs in Calgary.
-Chinese troops being trained in Canada
Sorry for such a horrendous list. We have so many equally atrocious issues here in the U.S.