Arthur Meighen

When, when you hear about the second one, we almost had three.

Um, but, uh, uh, yeah, I mean, Robert Borden basically, uh, it, uh, the guy he was, uh, succeeded by, Arthur Meighen, um, it, it, uh, not a name I even knew, and then you realize there's a reason why.

He served for just over a year, later come back, and I'll talk about more his second term when he came back for about three months, uh, almost a decade later.

But, uh, Arthur Meighen has a bizarre, bizarre history as being prime minister.

And secondly, here in Manitoba, where he lost his own seat.

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So the guy who was the reigning prime minister didn't even maintain his own seat in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, about 45 minutes from my house here, uh, that he had held for 13 years.

Wow.

So the conservatives had the most seats by any measure.

So clearly, Arthur Mann should have been asked to be prime minister, right? Yeah.

Not necessarily.

This is where it gets tricky.

But that also, I think, had an effect on people's feelings about partisan politics and a willingness to embrace other solutions.

I think what you say about Mann is very true.

I mean, he's such an interesting character.

He is what we say we want in politicians.

But can you talk about the campaign period itself and how campaigns were done differently just 100 plus years ago? And then we'll talk about the election results too.

Yeah, I mean, I think there's a number of interesting things about this campaign.

I mean, one of them, I think the thing that we haven't exactly addressed yet that seemed kind of important to focus on is Quebec, that Arthur Mann was hated in Quebec.

He was simply unelectable, deeply unpopular.