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Message to U.S. President Donald Trump: 'You don’t know that when it came to fighting in two world wars for freedom, we signed up—both times—years before your country did. We fought and we sacrificed well beyond our numbers,' former prime minister Jean Chrétien wrote recently in The Globe and Mail. Image courtesy of Pixabay/Pete Linforth

Opinion

BY ARTHUR MILNES

February 14, 2025

KINGSTON, ONT.—The great William Gladstone once observed that “former prime ministers are like untethered rafts drifting around harbours—a menace to shipping."

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