Former U.S. president Carter hailed for his ‘honesty’ and ‘enormous decency’

Canada-U.S. relations were ‘as good as one can hope between two close countries during [Jimmy] Carter’s time’ as the American president, says former Pierre Trudeau cabinet minister Marc Lalonde.

Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau, left, and then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter, meet at the White House on Sept. 8, 1977. According to colleagues and historians, the two had a bond as likeminded progressives. White House staff photograph

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 8, 2023

As the oldest living American president in history spends his final days at home in Plains, Ga., receiving hospice care, former federal cabinet ministers who served in Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments during the time now 98-year-old Jimmy Carter occupied the ...

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