Mulroney never played the game in half measures

Throughout his career, Brian Mulroney—a charismatic, ambitious, and shrewd political tactician—enjoyed great achievements, but also suffered spectacular failures.

Brian Mulroney at a Canada 2020 event in Ottawa in April 2014. Mulroney’s career had an almost Shakespearean flavour: he was a hero whose gifts propelled him to the heavens, but whose flaws dragged him back down to Earth, writes Gerry Nicholls.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

March 7, 2024

OAKVILLE, ONT.—When former prime minister Brian Mulroney died on Feb. 29, Canada lost a politician who never played the game in half measures.

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