Was Mulroney Trump before there was Trump?

The comparison with Trump isn’t exact, of course. The American president is more dangerous, more bellicose, and far less adept at deal-making than Mulroney was. But neither are ideologues—they are conservatives of convenience, more intent on putting their personal mark on politics than advancing a coherent ideal.

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney and U.S. President Donald Trump. The similarities with Mr. Trump are vivid and unmistakable—far more so than the superficial likenesses between the U.S. president and long-gone Conservative leadership hopeful, Kevin O’Leary, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

August 14, 2017

GATINEAU, QUE.—When Peter C. Newman's controversial and sensational book The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister was released in 2005, it created a national buzz. The book was based on hundreds of candid interviews with Mulroney, his friends, and family and p...

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