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Banner: First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics
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Alone at the Helm

Public views of the office of prime minister have changed during the past century. Today, we would hardly expect to see our leaders depicted as heroic masters of the ship of state. Instead, they are more likely to be lampooned as flawed and lonely mortals daily confronting their own limitations.

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