It may be fitting that we fund a museum, since he was a major player in Canadian politics.

I'm not that happy about the headline, though.  The man was obsessed with dividing the country, after all..  I agree that he did much to soften the hardliners in the movement -- his political style more or less ensured that we wouldn't see a repeat of the October crisis -- and accepted the referendum defeat with both class and grace.

But a man who seeks to divide the country cannot be called a great Canadian.  I think, too that having run over a drunken homeless war vet after a late night dinner party -- and somehow dodging a breathalyser even though he dragged the body 100 feet -- somewhat lessens the man.  Chappaquiddick North.......