“I repent it”

— Alexander Mackenzie

having not spoken in the last two parliamentary sessions; his last words in Parliament 1891 - relating to a high spender that he regretted having appointed to the Senate 1875 Buckingham page 632

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2nd Prime Minister of Canada 1822–1892

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