For Bill Davis, who retired from electoral politics in 1985, bland certainly did. “We need more Premier Davis today.”For Davis, a good day was when his name wasn’t on the front pages. From the lips of Bill Davis, quips were the camouflage for his basic shyness. To be sure, Bill Davis didn’t get off to a smooth start as first minister. “I came to treasure the occasional pearls of wisdom offered to me by Premier Davis, even as I served as premier,” Dalton McGuinty wrote in his memoir.

Source: thestar August 08, 2021 15:29 UTC