"Memoirs, 1939-1993"

[Saddle Bronc 124]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs:_1939-1993

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Criticism of Trudeau

Mulroney allocates a fair amount of text commenting on his antagonist, the late former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Mulroney believes that Trudeau lacked the moral fibre to be Prime Minister for not serving in the Canadian Forces during World War II.

“Pierre Trudeau was not among them. That's a decision he made. He's entitled to make that kind of decision. But it doesn't qualify him for any position of moral leadership in our society.[4] ”

— Mulroney

Mulroney hints that he feels the young Trudeau had anti-Semitic leanings at that time when he stated, "This is a man who questioned the Allies when the Jews were being sacrificed and when the great extermination program was on, he was marching around Outremont, Quebec on the other side of the issue."[5]

Mulroney also blames Trudeau for scuttling the Meech Lake accord, the 1990 pact aimed at securing Quebec's signature on the Constitution of Canada.[6]

I partly agree here--Trudeau wasn't qualified morally to lead Canada (as he proved by "birding" his country in 1982, while incumbent as PM). However, the Meech Lake (aka "Mooch Lake") Accord, followed by his railroading-through of Gouge-and-Shaft-Tax (GST) proved that Mulroney had no more moral fibre than Trudeau.

Basically, Trudeau and Mulroney were both chopf#cks--as also was Chretien!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

You sound difficult to please, Cherry.

[almaty 19]

no way sister..brother sriniv..has a great distaste for chopf##ks and especially chopf##k politicians

[Emancipation 2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs:_1939-1993

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Criticism of Trudeau

Mulroney allocates a fair amount of text commenting on his antagonist, the late former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Mulroney believes that Trudeau lacked the moral fibre to be Prime Minister for not serving in the Canadian Forces during World War II.

“Pierre Trudeau was not among them. That's a decision he made. He's entitled to make that kind of decision. But it doesn't qualify him for any position of moral leadership in our society.[4] ”

— Mulroney

Mulroney hints that he feels the young Trudeau had anti-Semitic leanings at that time when he stated, "This is a man who questioned the Allies when the Jews were being sacrificed and when the great extermination program was on, he was marching around Outremont, Quebec on the other side of the issue."[5]

Mulroney also blames Trudeau for scuttling the Meech Lake accord, the 1990 pact aimed at securing Quebec's signature on the Constitution of Canada.[6]

I partly agree here--Trudeau wasn't qualified morally to lead Canada (as he proved by "birding" his country in 1982, while incumbent as PM). However, the Meech Lake (aka "Mooch Lake") Accord, followed by his railroading-through of Gouge-and-Shaft-Tax (GST) proved that Mulroney had no more moral fibre than Trudeau.

Basically, Trudeau and Mulroney were both chopf#cks--as also was Chretien!

I think everyone agrees both were crooks... but the discussion (from what we heard on talk radio last weekend whilst visiting Canada) is which is the lesser of the two evils...

Mulroney seemed to have the lead as the "best evil" of the two

[Saddle Bronc 124]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs:_1939-1993

...

Criticism of Trudeau

Mulroney allocates a fair amount of text commenting on his antagonist, the late former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Mulroney believes that Trudeau lacked the moral fibre to be Prime Minister for not serving in the Canadian Forces during World War II.

“Pierre Trudeau was not among them. That's a decision he made. He's entitled to make that kind of decision. But it doesn't qualify him for any position of moral leadership in our society.[4] ”

— Mulroney

Mulroney hints that he feels the young Trudeau had anti-Semitic leanings at that time when he stated, "This is a man who questioned the Allies when the Jews were being sacrificed and when the great extermination program was on, he was marching around Outremont, Quebec on the other side of the issue."[5]

Mulroney also blames Trudeau for scuttling the Meech Lake accord, the 1990 pact aimed at securing Quebec's signature on the Constitution of Canada.[6]

I partly agree here--Trudeau wasn't qualified morally to lead Canada (as he proved by "birding" his country in 1982, while incumbent as PM). However, the Meech Lake (aka "Mooch Lake") Accord, followed by his railroading-through of Gouge-and-Shaft-Tax (GST) proved that Mulroney had no more moral fibre than Trudeau.

Basically, Trudeau and Mulroney were both chopf#cks--as also was Chretien!

I think everyone agrees both were crooks... but the discussion (from what we heard on talk radio last weekend whilst visiting Canada) is which is the lesser of the two evils...

Mulroney seemed to have the lead as the "best evil" of the two

I disagree:

• both proved their obvious contempt of Canada (Trudeau by "bird'ing" in 1982, Mulroney through attempt to shove Mooch Lake--thwarted by Elijah Harper¹--and railroading-through² of GST)
• The term is "least evil", never "best evil"
• The comparison would be like comparing Mao, Stalin and Hitler (eh, I don't think you really want to go there)

1. In 1990, a Native (Cree) NDP MLA in MB (Trudeau wasn't exactly someone most Natives would have copied)
2. Two Tory MP's, David Kilgour (later a Liberal) and Alex Kindy (later independent) were expelled from the party for voting against the GST; also, the fact that he appointed EXTRA Senators (adding much government expense permanently) proved he was lying through his teeth of any good done through GST