To learn more about Diefenbaker's legacy, I spoke with Dr. Michael Atkinson, the Executive Director of both the Diefenbaker Canada Centre and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, located at the University of Saskatchewan.

Diefenbaker doesn't begin...

in any sense, in 1957, for example, when he becomes prime minister.

Dieffenbaker's legacy is much longer than that.

And the renegade in power, the firebrand from the West, that doesn't come automatically either.

That comes out of his heritage.

It comes out of the West.

week, yeah.

Yeah, they've used regen, like a regeneration, rather than the resting policy, which I guess is controversial in and of itself.

I hate it all, Brett.

I hate it all.

I just don't like it.

Play them all.

So I think that hurts the Brumbies more than anything else, more than the Blues' chances, more than whether or not they get bonus point against Moana.

The force, the force would love the season to be about a month longer, I reckon, because they could really, they'd be, they'd be definitely challenging with another month of rugby.

Is there anything that you're seeing different about them on the field to what you've seen in recent years? Is there anything that you're seeing, well, we weren't seeing that last year?

Yeah.

I think what McKellar and co have done is weed out some potentially, uh, bad apples.

Um, and I hope that doesn't sound inflammatory.

I'm not trying to suggest that anyone that was there that isn't there, uh, is a bad bloke or a poor teammate, but I think, um, did McKellar say it last year that he, he, he wanted blokes who wanted to wear the jersey, weren't just happy to wear a track suit.

He said, I think he said, you know, and like that pretty much says, like he wants to get rid of guys who, who are just happy to be there rather than happy to, rather than wanting to work and wanting to get better.

And what I've seen in the first two games is a team that's willing to work incredibly hard, and work incredibly hard for each other.

The Chiefs have just been doing their bit in the background and they're every bit as strong as they've always been.