Prompted by O. D. Skelton’s official biography, Dafoe, editor of the Manitoba Free Press, offers his own assessment of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He follows Laurier’s climb to power, his handling of relations with the British Empire and his fifteen years as prime minister, arguing that party leadership in Canada made every prime minister an egotist and autocrat.
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