Mulroney's reputation being rehabilitated by PR firm to further Harper's free trade agenda? [View all]

[JohnyCanuck]

The rehabilitation of Brian Mulroney: There's a reason he's looking so good these days
By David J. Climenhaga

Have you noticed how Brian Mulroney is looking pretty good lately?

Back in the day, after Mulroney left office in 1993 as the Conservative prime minister who brought us "free" trade, failed constitutional change and sundry other disasters, real and imagined, he could have been fairly described as the most unpopular man in Canada.

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........My guess is that history will be a little kinder to Mulroney than most Canadians were at the time he left office. Indeed, it's been said in this space that he was probably right about the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords, though it hardly seemed so at the time.

But will it be as kind as the Globe and Mail and Postmedia News writers with their paeans to the benefits of freeish trade deals? This is highly doubtful. Indeed, historians may mark Mulroney's NAFTA as the beginning of the end of Canada as a sovereign nation, a trend the current Harperist government in Ottawa seems determined to accelerate.

Beyond the former Conservative prime minister’s own understandable desire to repair his still-tarnished reputation, this is what likely lies behind the full-court press to rehabilitate Mulroney.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2012/10/rehabilitation-brian-mulroney-theres-reason-hes-looking-so-good-