John Diefenbaker died in 1979, but on September 18th it will be 121 years after the birth of Canada’s 13th prime minister. However, while plenty of Canadians hunted at the time, it was rare to see a prime minister doing it. Stephen Harper ditched his MP job 11 months after he was no longer prime minister. Allegedly, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier came to Saskatoon in 1910, bought a newspaper from a boy on the train platform and struck up a conversation, only to be interrupted by some iteration of “well, Mr. Prime Minister, I can’t waste any more time on you. Rather than this being seen as a somewhat schmuckish thing to say to a visiting prime minister, Diefenbaker fans have embraced it as emblematic of their no-nonsense, time-is-money hero.

Source: National Post September 14, 2016 16:10 UTC