Canada today is a very successful country. It has suffered less from the global economic crisis than any other major economy. So Canadians may be tempted to be philosophical about disasters in their own past. Hasnâ??t it all come out right in the end?
But I want to stress: Canadaâ??s achievement overcoming Pierre Trudeauâ??s legacy should not inure Canadians to how disastrous that legacy was.
Three subsequent important prime ministers â?? Brian Mulroney, Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper â?? invested their energies cleaning up the wreckage left by Pierre Trudeau. The work has taken almost 30 years. Finally, and at long last, nobody speculates anymore about Canada defaulting on its debt, or splitting apart, or being isolated from all its major allies.
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