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Introduction
Alone at the Top
The Path to Power
Leading Canada
Private Life
Afterwards
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Profiles
Speeches
Comments
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Out of Power

Maintaining unity is hard enough when a party is in power; once out of power, the task becomes even more difficult. In fact, only four prime ministers, John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, managed to control their party long enough to return to power.

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