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John Diefenbaker: An Appointment With DestinyJohn George Diefenbaker was a determined man. As a child he announced he was going to be prime minister of Canada. At the age of fourty three he was elected to the House of Commons, after being defeated five times in a row. By 1957, at the age of sixty, he was elected as prime minister in a landslide victory, awarded the largest majority in Canadian parliamentary history. But that was only the beginning: during his term he had hard choices to make about the cancelling of the Avro arrow, the Cuban Missile crisis, and the beginning of medicare. His first full term was followed by a fall from power and a battle to keep his job. Order John Diefenbaker from: |