“Walk into my parlour said the spider to the fly”

August 1872 debate Sarnia - to Macdonald in declining Macdonald’s offer for Mackenzie to join the Coalition Cabinet in 1865 upon George Brown’s resignation in protest - Buckingham page 324

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2nd Prime Minister of Canada 1822–1892

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