| Alexander Mackenzie | CHARLES JOE CLARK | |
| Sir Robert Laird Borden | Wilfred Laurier | |
| Jean Chretien | Lester Bowles Pearson | |
| John George Diefenbaker | Roberta Lynn Bondar | Alexander Graham Bell |
by
Jessica
leader
to have. If they are not always where they are supposed to be you will never
know where or when to be at the same place or time as your group leader.
Being able to receive and give constructive criticism is important for a leader
to be able to do. Otherwise if you
give your leader any type of criticism they will take it seriously. This would
be a sign of a weak leader.
Pierre was a wonderful leader. He showed everyone determination, discipline towards education and what it takes to be a good leader. If this assignment was given to somebody with a cold heart or even someone who has a low self esteem rate, it would show him or her that there is hope for everyone to do something with his or her life.
By:
Kelly Sawatsky
To be a good leader, a person has to have a number of qualities that
other people admire. It takes a responsible, organized, honest, and friendly
person to be chosen to be a leader. Whether you are a leader in politics, a
class president, a teacher or a parent, you still have to make important
decisions that people can respect. A leader needs to work hard to gain
people’s trust.
A
leader needs to be organized. Being organized is important because the leader
can’t be late and misplace things or else everything will go wrong because he
is not properly prepared.
A
leader must be someone you can trust and rely on. Being trustworthy is important
because if you can’t count on his trust, you wouldn’t know what to tell him
and what not to tell him.
A
leader needs to take responsibility. Responsibility is important because if the
leader doesn’t carry out all his duties in an efficient manner, everything
will not go as planned just because the leader wasn’t responsible.
A
leader needs to give respect. Giving respect is necessary so people feel their
ideas are important. If the leader doesn’t respect the people around him,
nobody will want to be with the leader or talk to the leader.
A
leader needs to be unselfish. It is important to think of other people’s
thoughts and feelings because if the leader always wants his own way nobody will
like the leader or listen to the leader.
A
leader has to be loyal to the people around him because if the leader is not
loyal to his followers will not want to follow him and work along with him.
A
leader has to be able to listen to others and make them feel safe. This is
important because people need to be listened to and feel no danger or threat.
The people will like the leader better if the leader does this.
Alexander Mackenzie, Canada’s second prime minister, became Canada’s
first Liberal prime minister in 1873. Alexander Mackenzie was born on January
28, 1822 at Logierait, Scotland and immigrated to Canada in 1842. He died on
April 17, 1892 in Toronto, Ontario. Soon
after settling in Canada, Mackenzie joined the Reform Party, became interested
in politics, and was soon head of the party. He formed the first Liberal party
in Canada in 1873 and became the prime minister. Under his leadership, he
introduced the secret ballot, founded the Royal Military Collage, created the
Supreme Court, created the Office of the Auditor General and was the leader of
the Opposition from 1878 to 1880. During his administration he took charge of
the Department of Public Works. One of Mackenzie’s most important achievements
came during the Pacific Railway dispute. Mackenzie insisted that the governor
general allow Canada to handle its own internal affairs.
Alexander
Mackenzie tried to guarantee honesty by putting himself in charge of the
Department of Public Works. Because this department spent the most money, it had
the greatest possibility for dishonesty. His parliament passed laws to prevent
dishonest election practices by introducing the secret ballot.
Alexander
Mackenzie took responsibility at an early age. At the age of ten he began to
herd sheep to help support his family. When his father died three years later he
left school to train as a stonemason. Even though he was not in school, he
continued to read and give himself a good education, which included the study of
literature, history, science, philosophy and politics. When he entered into
political life he helped George Brown win election to the Legislative Assembly.
Mackenzie himself took charge of the Department of Public Works to
guarantee honesty in his administration. Alexander Mackenzie listened to others
and valued their opinions. It was unusual for a man of his humble origins to
attain such a position in government. Lord Dufferin, the current Governor
General, stated: “ However narrow and inexperienced Mackenzie may be, I
imagine he is a thoroughly upright, well-principled, and well-meaning man”. He
made people feel safe. He often needed to escape the patronage-seekers waiting
for him. He always wanted to maintain party unity and ensure the loyalty of his
fellow Liberals. He passed laws to allow more citizens to vote and introduced
the secret ballot.
Alexander
Mackenzie was an unselfish and humble man. He refused the offer of a knighthood
three times. His pride in his working-class origins never left him.
Mackenzie faced many national economic problems when he was Canada’s prime minister mainly because he served during a worldwide depression. Working under these conditions, he still proved he was a good leader and he stood for many good things. His honesty, keen sense of responsibility, his unselfish manner and loyalty to others made him a good leader. He listened to others, which made his followers feel safe. He achieved success with these qualities of leadership. He demonstrated that an ordinary person can achieve great things.
I'M LEADING. IS ANYONE FOLLOWING?
by
Thomas
A leader must have some or all of these qualities:
Thirdly,
mental toughness is what you need to be smart and work at improving your mind.
Take drawbacks as well as compliments.
A
fifth quality is that of self-discipline. Being
a disciplined student of study and work means that Joe Clark will work to
succeed and study to improve so that people will care.
Another
quality is the ability to encourage achievable task.
This means that you encourage the people but do not lie to them. They will expect you to see them improve in many ways.
Sixthly,
a leader must plan for success but be ready for failure.
This means you should plan and work for success but do not expect it
because you might fail and you will not be ready.
Lastly,
being a thinker means that you are expected to mean what you say.
So you should think about what you are about to say, before you say it.
Charles
Joe CLARK was born in High River, Alberta in 1939, the son of a newspaper owner
and editor. Clark’s first taste
of professional politics came in 1958. He
graduated in 1960 he traveled through Europe for a year.
In 1962 he worked for the Diefenbaker election team.
He served as president of the Progressive Conservative Student
Confederation. He also worked for
Davie Fulton. In the following year,he began his M.A. (Master of Arts) in
Political Science. In 1958 he
worked for Alan Lazerte who was campaigning for leadership.
Joe
Clark was a disciplined student of study and work because he had been teaching
in a University ever since he retired from politics. He was editing the School
Newspaper and working as a sports writer for the Calgary Herald one summer. At the University of Alberta he studied History, English and
Political Science.
Joe
Clark is a thinker because he has been a president of a small government and was
in a political party for a long time so he knows to think before he does
something.
He was planning for success when he lost his small government and seemed to be ready when he lost it. In 1979, Joe, at the age or 39 won a small Conservative government. Unfortunately, he lost it 7 months later.
I found out that leadership is one of the most important things for politics. It’s the kind of things that presidents, Prime Minister must have to be a successful leader.
By
Daniel Morris
Being loyal makes the top five on my list for sure. Being loyal means to respect your colleagues and not be a coward. If you are not loyal you won’t have anyone to be loyal too.
Being
helpful ranks pretty high on my rating scale. Being helpful may make your
workers better when you retire. They would respect you more and would not want
you to quit.
Sir
John Joseph Caldwell Abbott had a very busy professional life. In his early life
he was a lawyer in the group (The Bar of Canada East in 1847). In 1853-1876 he
was a professor at the McGill College. In 1855-1880 he was a
Dean
of Law at McGill College also. Also in 1862 He was the President of the Canadian
Central Railway. From 1885-1891 He was part of the board of directors. In
1891-1892 he was the Prime Minister of Canada for 18 months until he retired
because of health. In 1887-1888 he was the Mayor of Montreal. He died on October
30 1893 in the Mount Royal Cemetery.
In
the research I found that that he was a loyal man. Abbott was willing to take
over, as Prime Minister but wanted Sir John A Macdonald’s top two men to take
it over. Abbott was loyal to Macdonald by helping and not being a coward to him.
Abbott
was friendly in any way possible. He was friendly to his colleagues, helpers and
friends. He was very friendly when he funded the anti- cruelty to animals group.
Being friendly is very important for a Prime Minister.
Abbott
was an able man according to my research. Abbott did his work to the best of his
abilities and never complained. He was able to take challenges head on and fight
right through them. He was a very able man.
I
think that Abbott was a very wise man. He was wise when he funded the
anti-cruelty group. People now probably like him more. Being wise helped his
group, family and friends. For if Abbott was not wise he would have had a lot of
problems.
Abbott
was very helpful to his colleagues and friends. He would help them through rough
times. Abbott was helpful to his workers by setting a good example for them to
look up to. Being helpful is one of the criteria that stands out about Abbott.
Not
panicking in tough situations is very important because if you have to think
fast, you can t waste time panicking. You
have to be able to trust your leader to lead you through tough situations.
You
have to be able to encourage while you criticize.
If you say things like “that
s horrible” and then let a different person complete the task, your followers
will think that you are bossy. If
you do have to criticize, then do it in a positive way.
He was
unselfish because he extended franchise to women (giving them the right to vote)
and made many other different acts.
Robert
Borden was involved in many things concerning the military and war so obviously
he was anything but a coward.
He
created ideas very well because he tried many, many different jobs and was
involved in all the acts in Canada from 1914-1917.
Robert
Borden, because of all the things he did, seemed to treat everyone fairly. 99%
of the things he did had absolutely nothing to do with him.
I think that doing this project made me think about how important having a decent leader is. Then again, nobody is perfect and everyone has his or her pros and cons. This served me well so that now, when I get older, I will choose my Premier and Prime Minister by voting carefully.
By Danna
To me, a
leader should be able to give options instead of orders. Example: If a leader is
in a bad situation, the leader should give his followers some choices on what to
do.
Also,
a leader should be very kind to his followers, or else, the followers won’t
listen to his instructions. Usually when I see a leader, they are nice but some
of them aren’t.
A
good leader is not a coward. He should be brave not scared. He should believe in
himself and his followers and not let them down.
A
leader should also be able to create good ideas, especially when he is in a
tough situation and doesn’t know what to do. The leader should have ideas in
mind just for the occasion.
A
leader should be very honest to his followers, and tell the truth at all times.
He should never lie, for if he does, it will create bigger lies and in the end,
it will be a big mess caused by the leader.
A
leader should be willing to take a risk. Even if it’s a mountain they have to
climb, he should know in his heart that they will make it across.
Last
but not least, a leader should definitely listen to his followers. He should
know that they have ideas too and that they might work.
Laurier
has worked very hard on creating provinces. He created the idea of putting the
provinces together. It must have taken a few years for that.
Rby
Bryce
A
leader is persistent. This quality
is important because success does not come easily.
One
of our local heroes is a man named Rick Hansen.
Rick Hansen was born in 1946 and is still living today.
When he was 15 years old he was in a car crash and was paralyzed from the
waist down due to a spinal cord injury. Even
though he couldn’t use his legs, he amazingly went all around the world in a
wheelchair. He was raising money
for spinal cord injury research. He
raised 24 million dollars. The tour
lasted for over 2 years and visited 34 countries.
He wheeled over 40,000 kilometers! He
married Amanda, who accompanied him on his tour as a physiotherapist.
Now they live in Richmond with their three daughters.
Rick
Hansen was not selfish when he went on the tour around the world.
He didn’t keep the 24 million dollars that was donated to him; instead
of being greedy he gave all the money to spinal cord injury research.
Rick
Hansen had a vision to raise awareness of abilities of disabled people that he
made into reality. With that vision
he set a goal for himself to wheelchair all around the world.
Even though it was a very difficult task he finally achieved his goal.
Rick
Hansen didn’t give up during his tour. He
didn’t say, “ Oh, I can’t do this. I
quit.” He kept on trying to
achieve his goal. Even though he
was robbed nine times, he didn’t decide to stop right where he was and go back
home.
Rick
Hansen had a special skill; he could “wheelchair”.
He used this ability to overcome his disability and to achieve his goal.
Rick
Hansen has many important accomplishments.
He was the first student with a physical disability to graduate in
physical education from the University of British Columbia, he became a
prominent wheelchair athlete, wheeled all over the world (over 40,000
kilometers) and raised millions of dollars for spinal cord injury research.
Leaders must be committed to what they are trying to achieve. Leaders are one of the best things in our world because they are good role models and they help us realize things that we never even knew could affect us. Leaders shouldn’t give up and that’s what being a leader is all about.
Seven
Criteria of a Leader
by
Clark
You
need to take responsibility when you are a leader because you have to make many
difficult decisions and you have to accept responsibility for those decisions.
You
need to be loyal when you are a leader because many of the people will make
mistakes. You must respect your peers or else they won’t stick by
your side anymore.
You
need to not be a coward when you’ are a leader because different leaders do
different things and you have to be brave to do them.
For example, some leaders must go to be conferences to speak and go on
T.V.
You
have to believe in yourself when you are a leader because if you don’t, things
could go wrong. When you do not
believe in yourself and you are talking, you could stutter your words and sweat. People will think you are scared and do not believe in
yourself. They won’t believe in
you either.
You
need to give people hope when you are a leader because you need to have them
believe that things can get better. If
you don’t everything will stay the same or may even get a little worse.
You
must be unselfish when you’re a leader because if you just worry about
yourself all the time many things could go wrong.
That’s whey a good leader should worry about other people more than
himself.
You
have to be honest with other people because if you lie they will not be able to
trust you at all and you would not be very popular.
Canada
is lucky to have Mr. Jean Chretien as its twentieth Prime Minister.
Jean
Chretien is best known for his many years of experience in government.
There are a number of reasons
why Jean Chretien is a good leader.
He
gives people hope because he believes in providing them with good health care
and education. These are two things that people in the rest of the world believe
make Canada a great country.
Jean
Chretien takes responsibility for his actions.
If he does something wrong he will admit to it.
Jean Chretien is loyal because he has stayed with the same political
party his whole life. Even when the
Liberals lost an election he still remained an active member.
Jean
Chretien believes in himself a lot because even though he is getting older he
keeps running for Prime Minister. He
believes that he is still able to do a great job leading the country.
Jean
Chretien is not a coward. He talks
in front of large crowds of people even if some of those people are protesting
against him.
To become a leader like Jean Chretien you must never give up. You have to accept all of the losses when you are running to be Prime Minister. Also, you should stay with the same party and keep trying because if you quit you’re a loser. If you keep trying you may one day win. As a result of his efforts Jean Chretien has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost eight years.
By
Kaela
It
is important that a leader is not afraid of conflict. If a leader is afraid of
conflict, they will accept anything to avoid conflict
If
a leader were not responsible, he/she would not be supported. They wouldn’t
care about anything and our country would be a disaster.
A
leader must stay calm in a tough situation. If a leader were to panic in an
emergency, they would not be able to do anything because they would be so
nervous.
Lester
Bowles Pearson, our fourteenth prime minister, was a positive leader and played
sports until he became amused with politics. Lester was born April 23 1897
Newton Brook, Ontario. He went to the University of Toronto. When Pearson was 28
he married Maryon Moody. From 1945-1946 he was Canadian Ambassador to the United
States. He was a Professor and Chancellor at Carleton University from 1969-1972.
Pearson was leader of the Liberal Party from 1958-1968. Pearson is known for a
new Canadian flag, Medicare and a Canadian pension plan. Lester retired in 1968.
Pearson died 1972 but his Party still goes on in the hands of Jean Chretian our
current prime minister. Lester was buried in Maclaren Cemetery, Wakefield,
Quebec.
When
the Suez Canal Crisis occurred in 1956 the British and the French threatened to
plunge the world into war again. This was when our prime minister, Pearson, met
with the United Nation’s and suggested a peacekeeping force. This proves
Lester does not panic in a tough situation but tries to solve the problem and
not make it bigger.
You
can see that Pearson is a dependable person because he was a part of External
Affairs. So if a Canadian were in trouble outside of Canada Pearson would help
them.
Lester
Pearson is a trustworthy person. This is evident because he made the right
decisions for our country and tried to stop war and not make it bigger.
Pearson
is responsible. This is obvious because he worked for many hours and did
anything was needed to be done.
By Scott
My
second criterion for a leader is not panicking in tough situations. Panicking in
a tough situation could have disastrous results. You could have something bad
happen to you or even worse your followers.
A
leader who is not loyal to his/her followers is a bad leader. The result would
be his/her followers branding him/her a traitor and they would probably want a
different group.
My
fourth criterion for a leader is a person who feels the thrill of a challenge.
If he /she does not want to challenge themselves to make a better group they
will not be as good of a leader as a person who does.
A
leader who does not want to improve is not a very good leader. If they do not
want to improve their group will never be able to achieve greater feats or
challenges and they will always stay the same way.
A
leader shouldn’t constantly be making wrong decisions. If they are, they will
land themselves and their followers in constant trouble and their followers will
most likely leave.
My
seventh criterion for a leader is a person who treats everyone fairly. If a
leader favours only a few in his/her group the others who are treated unfairly
will not want him/her as a leader and abandon the group.
I
think John George Diefenbaker was great political leader. Maybe you too will
think so after reading this. John Diefenbaker was born in 1895 on the 18th of
September, in Neustadt, Ontario. He went to the University of Saskatchewan and
graduated with a law degree in 1919. He
married Edna Brower in 1929 she died in 1951. He remarried Olive Palmer in 1953.
Diefenbaker had one stepdaughter as his child. One thing he was known for was
that he was the first Prime Minister of Canada to allow other nationalities into
politics and the House of Commons that were not of French or English origin. He
was elected as Prime Minister of Canada in 1957; his party was the Progressive
Conservatives. John Diefenbaker died on August 16th, 1979 in Ottawa, Ontario. He
was buried beside The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Centre at the
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
John
Diefenbaker was committed to being a Prime Minister. After trying six times and
failing every single time he still tried again and succeeded. He must have liked
the saying “If at first you don’t succeed try, try, and try again” because
he tried again and finally became Prime Minister.
John
Diefenbaker treated all nationalities fairly. He did not exclude other
nationalities that were not English or French from voting for Prime Minister of
Canada. He also encouraged them go into politics and become political leaders.
One of his famous quotes was “I am the first Prime Minister of this country of
neither altogether English or French origin, so I determined to bring about to
bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration….
I’m very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my
party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and and
Ukrainian origin-and they are all Canadians”.
Diefenbaker
felt the thrill of a challenge. He was encouraged to read at a young age by his
father. When he was young he read a book about Sir Wilfred Laurier and decided
that he would become a Prime minister of Canada someday. And he did.
John
Diefenbaker did not panic in tough situations. He heard that the Crown Assets
Disposal Corporation had declared 250 Sable Island ponies surplus and there were
rumors in the media that the ponies were going to be shot and turned into
dog-food. He did not panic knowing that this action could destroy public
relations and a part of our natural heritage because the ponies had been on
Sable Island for over 200 years. After receiving hundreds of letters from school
children, Diefenbaker announced in the House of Commons that the ponies would be
spared and also preserved and protected for the rest of their lives.
Diefenbaker
believed that there was always a better way to do something. In 1957 he created
the Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act that helped farmers all
across the country. Even after that he chose he could make another improvement
and found a new market for wheat in China.
W hen doing this report I learned that we have to choose our leaders carefully or else Canada could have problems and that leadership takes a firm but fair person for success.
By Nicolle
My
seven criteria for leaders are: giving respect, being patient and loyal, being
knowledgeable, being dependable, taking responsibility, being honest and
brave and being under control. All
of these criteria are explained below.
My
first criteria is giving respect. That
is important because if you treat others poorly, they’ll do the same to
others.
Being
loyal and patient is another good quality. If you’re not patient, people will
not respect you. You must be loyal
so you don’t turn into a traitor. If you aren’t loyal, you are a traitor.
A
leader should be knowledgeable because if you aren’t, people and yourself
won’t know what to do or how to do the job.
Being
dependable is a very good criterion. If
you aren’t dependable, people will think that you will be late for everything
and they won’t trust you.
Being
dependable is a very good criterion. If
you aren’t dependable, people will think that you will be late for everything
and they won’t trust you.
Being
responsible for other people is a good criterion because if someone gets hurt
and you’re in charge, you are responsible for that person.
Also,
you must listen to others or they won’t listen to you
You
must be brave and under control. If
you aren’t, people will panic and get themselves into deeper trouble than they
already are.
Roberta
Lynn Bondar, too, has had an interesting life.
She was born in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.
She went to school in Sault Ste Marie and to secondary school there as
well. Roberta is a researcher and a
neurologist. She enjoys biking,
hiking, flying and photography. Roberta
had photographed all of Canada’s National Parks by the millennium.
She has many medals including NASA’s space mission medal.
Roberta is also an astronaut and physician, scientist and photographer. Her mission to space was eight days, one hour, and forty-five
seconds long. Seven Mercury
astronauts inspired her. In space,
Roberta ate with spoons and scissors. In space, she traveled for 3,359, 830
miles. Roberta landed on a concrete
runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Roberta is one of the six Canadian astronauts selected in December 1983
and began training in February 1984. Roberta
Lynn Bondar is lucky to be a Canadian astronaut today.
There
are criteria to prove that Roberta Bondar is a leader.
I
think being brave is a very good criterion for my leader, Roberta Bondar.
Roberta is brave and willing to take risks and is brave when she is
flying.
Another
criteria is being knowledgeable because if Roberta wasn’t, she wouldn’t know
what to do or where to go and how to get there and how to control the space
ship.
Roberta’s
other criteria would be giving respect. She
does this by replying to children’s letters and e-mails.
She also gives respect to her fellow astronauts.
Roberta
also suits being patient. When she
was training to be an astronaut, it took a long time before she was picked out
of several thousand Canadian competitors.
These are the criteria, which prove that Roberta Lynn Bondar is a great Canadian leader.
by
Jeremy
A
person who is influential is a good leader.
If a leader wasn’t a good influence, how could s/he get us to choose
the right decisions?
A good leader is beneficial to the followers. If I could learn from a leader, I w
Someone
who is trustworthy is a leader. A
great person that doesn’t lie for any reason is trustworthy.
I would follow a trustworthy person.
A
person who hopes for success but is ready for failure is a good leader.
He would probably be a person who tries and tries again and never gives
up.
Someone
who can take a debate or protest is person who can stand up to opinions
different to their own. If they
believe it is right. That person
should also listen to others. That
is a sign of a good leader.
A
person with skills in things like being open minded, having an ability to set
goals or having Alexander Graham Bell was the famous inventor of the telephone
and the gas powered airplane. Alexander
was born in Scotland in 1847 and moved to Ontario in 1870 and moved to Ontario
in 1870, and finally stayed in Boston. In
Boston he taught deaf people and married one.
He spent the summer at Baddeck in 1922 and died.
Alexander actually began to dislike the telephone, by calling it the
rudest thing in history because it interrupts dinner, baths, and other important
things like that.Because of Alexander many people decided to make more advanced
phones like cordless and cellular. He
also influenced them to build bigger and better gas powered planes.Alexander
hoped for success but was ready for failure, that is why he was such a great inventor.
He tried and tried again until his task was complete.
It took many failures to invent the great things Alexander did.
Alexander had a great skill in Math.
Alexander was the inventor of the telephone so he needed the mathematical
skills for coming up with the plans and materials for it.
Alexander was very helpful to other people.
Not only did he invent things, he actually worked with deaf people.
It was because of them that he decided to invent a communications system.
Alexander was very helpful to other people.
It was because of them that he decided to invent a communications system.
Alexander was confident he would invent something useful.
He soon did some important things like the telephone and the gas-powered
airplane.
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