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Brian Mulroney

Outrage of the Week: Canada’s Feeble House of Commons Ethics Committee

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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How Would You Like to be Remembered, Mr. Prime Minister?

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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