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Originally Posted by YOWetal
Pronunciation aside he's probably closer to Baylis than Gould. He was very very bilingual. Dion is a different story. For English Canadians we don't really judge the ability to speak English but debates and interviews aren't graded with a handicap so if you can't perform which is pretty natural in your second language you suffer. Dion probably spoke English less fluently than anyone else who ever came close and he didn't really get that close to be honest. St. Laurent and Laurier had weird childhood exposures to English making them fluent.
Harper is probably far from the worst French speaker though even in the Radio/TV era.
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Stephen Harper's French was better than Joe Clark's, for example.
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