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Former Trudeau adviser calls on Ottawa to put Privy Council Office in charge

In the wake of this month's dramatic blackout, Thomas Axworthy, a liberal adviser who was principal secretary to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau from 1981 to 1984, came out swinging against the way the federal government responded to the crisis that took away most of Ontario's power suppl...

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