In the early days of television when Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent promised the people he would appear in their parlours like someone peeking through a magic window Montrealers hurried home from work to change their clothes for fear of being seen by him in everyday.
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and these people their hearts beating quick as caught sheep as this "bon pere de famille" appeared lighting the way they saw themselves going in that time at that very place when Louis St. Laurent paid his visit and they may well have asked "Do you see me Mr. Prime Minister? I am the one in the green chair. Welcome to my home."