John Alexander Macdonald byl kanadský politik skotského původu, jeden ze zakladatelů Kanady, historicky první ministerský předseda Kanady.
Premiérskou funkci zastával 19 let , což je druhý nejdelší výkon funkce premiéra v historii Kanady . Začínal jako právník v Kingstonu v Ontariu. Výrazně se podílel na formulaci Zákona o Britské Severní Americe, který de facto založil Kanadu jako nezávislý stát. Poté byl klíčovou figurou při tvorbě kanadské konfederace. Svou funkci musel na několik let opustit kvůli tzv. Pacifickému skandálu . Wikipedia
“I must have another $10,000. Will be the last time of calling. Do not fail me. Answer today.”
Telegram to Hugh Allan, head of the Canadian Pacific Railway, six days before the 1872 election. The release of this telegram spurred the Pacific Scandal.
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“Let us be English or let us be French… but above all let us be Canadians”
http://www.canadianwild.ca/canadiana/sirjohn.html <br class="br">Undated
“Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.”
Responding to a heckler. (from John A: The Man Who Made Us by Richard J. Gwyn).
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“He has no British instincts or British feelings or aspirations.”
speaking about the Chinese, debating the 1885 Electoral Franchise Act in the House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (Ottawa: Maclean, Roger & co, 1885) (Henceforth, Commons Debates), 18, May 4, 1885, 1582. <br class="br"> page 82 of Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians https://books.google.ca/books?id=mH-3BR845GwC&pg=PA82 quotes this <br class="br">Dated
1865, quoted on page 394 of Canadian Constitutional Development: Shown by Selected Speeches and Dispatches, with Introductions and Explanatory Notes https://books.google.ca/books?id=LRukOUFKGnkC&pg=PA394 published 1907 <br class="br">Dated
February 3, 1891 as the 1891 election was called, fought largely over the issue of free trade with the United States; reported at Historic Canada http://www.histori.ca/prodev/article.do;jsessionid=8D3831D48EE489EBCF46813C8427E685.tomcat1?id=15356. <br class="br">Dated
same 1885 speech, quoted in 2012 Macleans article http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/was-john-a-macdonald-a-white-supremacist/ <br class="br">Dated
