This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

When electors asked directly whom they should vote forthe cagey priests contented themselves with informing them that le ciel est bleu l'enfer est rouge – heaven is blue hell is red. Laurier's portrait is displayed on the Canadian five-dollar bill. Laurier attended the College of L'Assomption and graduated in law from McGill University.

Macdonald and Pierre Trudeau. He is well known for his policies of conciliation expanding Confederation and compromise between French and English Canada. Laurier is the fourth-longest serving Prime Minister of Canada behind William Lyon Mackenzie King John A.