Ottawa

Stephen Harper = John Lennon

Michael Adams discusses his most recent polling on who Canadians admire most. Pierre Trudeau comes first, by a fairly wide margin, with 121 mentions.

Adams doesn’t include a complete list of the other 442 people named, but the standings for those he does cite are as follows.

Trudeau 121 
Mother Teresa 87
Gandhi 68
Winston Churchill 63
Jesus 61
Rene Levesque 59
Princess Diana 40
Barack Obama 40
Pope Benedict 25
Dad 22
Queen Elizabeth II 21
Mom 16
John Lennon 13
Tommy Douglas 13
Stephen Harper 13
Lester Pearson 13
John Diefenbaker 12

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