Black mark!

Here's another in my very occasional series of candidates for the worst sentence ever written. The author is none other than Conrad Black in the National Post:

Once the Liberals adopted the policy of alternating English and French-Canadian leaders, and the Conservatives obligingly recruited some prominent English-speaking Liberal politicians to mobilize the anglophone majority in the country to impose conscription on French-Canadians who had no particular reason to feel any filial loyalty to the British or the French in the hecatomb of the First World War, the preeminence of the Liberals was assured.

Got that?  Come to think of it, most of the column that contains this gem is similarly overwrought and under-edited. You can check it out here.