Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian MulroneyI've just finished watching two hours of Brian Mulroney finally telling his side of the story. It's been too long and it's a good thing he finally came forward.
And... I'm moved. Yes.
Yes, we're talking about Mr. Mulroney. The guy who gave us the GST, yes. The guy who gave the CF-18 contract, won fair and square via proper tender, by a firm in the West, to Quebec. Etc., etc...
But he's also the guy who gave us Free Trade, he's also the guy who sent Canada's military to help repel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. He built the fixed link connecting Prince Edward Island to the mainland. He built the new patrol frigates for the Navy. He ordered new helicopters for the military which that cretinous Chretien cancelled for purely electoral calculation reasons and for which, due to the illegal cancellation, he still stuck us with a billion dollar bill, providing absolutely zero helicopters as cynically promised, allowing the old Sea Kings to be used to this day, crashing, crashing and crashing. He's the guy who helped get Nelson Mandela released from jail. He stood staunchly against South African Apartheid, prepared to slap them with full sanctions. And made a difference.
And he's the guy who tried, out of genuine well-meaning and love of his country, to get Quebec to sign the Constitution, something his nemesis Pierre Trudeau obviously didn't care to do. Granted, Meech Lake was a flawed accord, in my opinion, but that's a moot point now. The point is that he really tried... and would've succeeded, were it not for Trudeau's jealousy and Clyde Wells's arrogant stupidity (the guy didn't even allow the Newfie legislature to vote on the Accord!).
You see, Brian Mulroney wasn't really a bad guy at all. He did do lots of good stuff which, if current PM Harper did today, would certainly get our praise.
I now understand Mr. Mulroney much better, actually. I can understand how he could've made certain mistakes now. And I'm sure that he's learned from them, though he, I don't think, wants to discuss his mistakes right now. No need, I guess. It's a matter of judgement for each person, and each person ought to be fair and use their head in judging. And keep perspective, remembering the deliberate harms the Liberals have wrought upon Canada which make his mistakes look like mere whoopses.
But one thing's for certain...
No Liberal I can think of can hold a candle to Brian Mulroney. Brian Mulroney has always been and still is a better man than the likes of Trudeau, Chretien and Martin. Definitely better than current leader Stephane Dion, whose "intelligence" is hugely overrated and overestimated, thanks to the myth thereof as built by the MSM.
Next to Brian Mulroney, Liberals are merely yukky little pieces of poop. Oh, and of course, that applies also to guys like Lucien Bouchard... what a smelly little turd, eh?
I also like the way he speaks of the left. Calls them things like "those jerks on the loony left". I'd presume that he's now wiser than ever and understands things far more than when he was a new, inexperienced leader and Prime Minister. Indeed, the abuses he's endured must have taught him some powerful, valuable lessons, like I've already learned, though I'm barely more than half his age.
I welcome Mr. Mulroney back into the spotlight and hope he'll once again get back at trying to do something for his country. The Liberals, thanks to their attempts to maliciously, unfairly crush him by abusing the power of the state, ought to get their just desserts from him now. I believe he can really poke them with a pointy stick and make 'em squeal like pigs...
Nope, I haven't fallen off my rocker. I don't even sit on a rocker. Not kidding either.
Just the latest frank musings from the guy who blogs under the pseudonym "Canadian Sentinel".
