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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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Banner: First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics
Banner: The Path to Power

Other Paths to the Top

Many other jobs can lead to the Prime Minister's Office. Alexander Mackenzie, one of four prime ministers born in Great Britain, worked as a stonemason before becoming a journalist and then a politician. Among the other occupations represented in our leaders' social backgrounds are education, business, medicine, and the civil service.
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