“Canada: The Last Best West!” was his slogan. Clifford Sifton, a brilliant interior minister, crafted far-reaching immigration policies that are still with us. The Ottawa house he lived in for 25 years is not. His home might have been saved as a memorial to the man who built the West. Instead it was demolished to make way for a grey apartment building.
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