Mulroney’s unhelpful advice
If there is one former prime minister who should know the limits of the persuasive powers of a top-down policy consensus, it should be Brian Mulroney. He and his government succeeded twice in securing unanimous provincial support for two successive constitutional accords.
Once in a blue moon, or maybe a bit more often than that, someone who should know better, offers the prime minister of the day some strikingly flawed advice.
Such is the case of Brian Mulroney’s recommendation that Justin Trudeau personally take charge of the controversial Energy East pipeline fi...
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