February 29, 2008
If it were a crime for legislators to bring discredit to parliament, the MPs investigating cash payments to a former prime minister would long ago have been carted off and locked up. A lot of people I have talked with over the years view Canada’s system of government as something akin to a relative without [...]
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December 14, 2007
In December 1957, a future prime minister of Canada received the Nobel prize for peace. In December 2007, a former prime minister is forced to explain to a skeptical country why he received envelopes stuffed with cash. It is hard to imagine a more striking contrast in political character. Yesterday, Brian Mulroney, Canada’s 18th prime [...]
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