Talk:Bill Davis

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Added to WikiProject Canada/Ontario, and rated 'Mid' importance due to the length of his term in the office of Premier. I will go along with the 'B' quality rating although the article is currently short on referencing. PKT (talk) 02:28, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

"Mild" works for him on a number of levels :) - whoops, just realized that my vision's a bit blurry and I misread "mid". Reggie Perrin (talk) 17:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Buildings acknowledging him

I had been to many buildings that are name after him. W.G. Davis Senior Public School W.G. Davis Building(UTC)

Do we include it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheQ Editor (talk • contribs) 17:06, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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Bill Davis#Eponyms

I think this section is unnecessary and inconsistent with WP:TRIV. I propose removing it. Thoughts? AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 15:56, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I could convert it to prose (i.e. "he has public schools named after him in Cambridge,[ref] Scarborough,[ref] Windsor,[ref] and his hometown of Brampton.[ref]" type thing)... I just hate to throw away all that ref work I did haha. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 00:26, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Floydian, Didn't realize you had added all those refs! Conversion to prose seems reasonable - I may do that in the next few days. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 01:42, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Citation needed's

So I've only got the Final term section left that I can pull from Paikin's book. The remainder of the citation needed tags I've had no luck with. Hopefully a ref can be found for them, or they can be removed so that Mr. Davis can make it to the Recent Deaths at WP:ITN before it's too late. I'm done for tonight though. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 04:30, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

So I've commented out the following passages, as I'm not able to cite them; if someone can, they can be unhidden:

• Most of the 14,000 Canadians put out of work by this decision were residents of Peel, and many cast protest ballots against Diefenbaker by supporting Bill Brydon, the provincial Liberal candidate.
• On August 31, Davis announced the rejection of a proposal to grant full funding to Ontario's Catholic high schools—which were only publicly funded up to grade 10—stating that it "would fragment the present system beyond recognition and repair". Some regarded this as an appeal to the Progressive Conservative Party's rural Protestant base. Some regarded this as an appeal to the Progressive Conservative Party's rural Protestant base.
• [After the 1975 election...] Davis appointed Frank Miller and James Taylor to key cabinet portfolios after the election, but withdrew from a proposed austerity program following a negative public response.
• In the 1980 federal election, Davis's criticism of Clark's budget was used by the Liberal Party in official campaign documents and it played a role in the federal Tories' losses in Ontario; the swing in support enabled the Liberals to regain government.
• In 1983 Davis considered moving to federal politics by running to lead the federal Progressive Conservatives when Joe Clark only received lukewarm support during a leadership review. Davis decided not to do so when he realized that he would not receive endorsements from western Canada because of his support for the Constitution patriation and the National Energy Program. His candidacy had been strongly opposed by Peter Lougheed, the Premier of Alberta.
• In a National Post editorial, on the tenth anniversary of Harris's 1995 electoral victory, Harris's chief of staff described the difference in their policies, saying that Davis retained power with a careful balancing act, while Harris used a bold platform to unexpectedly catapult the party from third place to first.

-- Floydian ^τ _¢ 23:40, 12 August 2021 (UTC)