ape wrote:did anyone catch the segment about him when the cbc had the greatest canadian poll?
Here's the top ten list that came out of that fairly extensive semi-sorta-scientific popularity contest/poll:
1 Tommy Douglas - former western premier, father of Canadian health care system
2 Terry Fox - the MAN
3 Pierre Elliott Trudeau - former Prime Minister, repatriated the constitution from Britian, divided the country over Quebec and oil, captured either the imagination or the ire (everyone had a strong opinion) of all Canadians
4 Sir Frederick Banting - disvovered insulin
5 David Suzuki - environmentalist
6 Lester B. Pearson - former PM, inventor of the Peacekeeping concept
7 Don Cherry - hockey commentator, former coach, expresses the voice of the common Canadian very bluntly in hockey matters
8 Sir John A. Macdonald - first PM, largely responsible for the creating of Canada in 1867
9 Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone
10 Wayne Gretzky - the Great One
The Americans reading this will have no idea who a lot of these people are, so I added some commentary beside the names. You can get a real good idea about Canada's national character by looking at that list. It seems we value things like health care, the environment, our country, and hockey. Some people might put hockey higher in the list :-)