Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had come from Ottawa for the event to praise one of his predecessors as both PM and Tory party leader, the Right Honourable Arthur Meighen. In a way that is peculiarly his own, he was and is above all others the statesman-scholar of Canadian public life. And just as Arthur Meighen found the man Shakespeare in reading and re-reading what he wrote, so I believe we and posterity are going to discover and re-discover Arthur Meighen from the record of his recorded utterances. “Read him and enjoy him,” said Arthur Meighen. It is characteristic of him that no one has summed up this phase of the life of Arthur Meighen better than Arthur Meighen himself.

Source: CBC News December 03, 2022 11:03 UTC