There’s “inertia” in Prime Minister’s office, says Kent: Tom Kent says “it’s reasonable enough for Paul Martin or anyone else to say the time has come”

Tom Kent was one of the most significant Liberal advisers in Canadian history. Many credit him with designing medicare, the Canada Pension Plan and helping bring forth the policies that brought Lester B. Pearson to power in 1963. Now, 80, he's a fellow in the school of policy studies at Kingston'...

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