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CTV News Reveals Brian Mulroney's Comments About Pierre Trudeau
<Just moments ago, CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson revealed some of the comments that former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney made about his predecessor, the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The comments were made during an interview with CTV's Chief Anchor Lloyd Robertson for the exclusive CTV special, Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story. During the interview, Mr. Mulroney commented on the former Liberal Prime Minster's moral leadership, his refusal to serve in the Second World War and his opposition to the Allied effort against the Nazi regime – see transcript below.
Mulroney's remarks will air as part of CTV's landmark political special Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story airing on Sunday, September 9 at 7 p.m. CTV has also confirmed that the special has now been extended and will run for two-hours between 7 and 9 p.m. (check CTV.ca for local broadcast times)
Mulroney's comments about Trudeau come in a portion of the documentary that reviews the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. As Lloyd Robertson reports in Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story, Mulroney sees Trudeau as the hidden architect behind the defeat of the agreement that would have brought Quebec into the Constitution.
Transcript excerpts from CTV's Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story:Mulroney:
“…(Trudeau) is far from a perfect man, this is a man who questioned the Allies when the Jews were being sacrificed and when the great extermination program was on he was marching around Outremont (Montreal) on the other side of the issue.
Robertson:
But how much of that past Mr. Mulroney, would be part of youthful exuberance? He was a rebellious youth, and a lot of people in Quebec were against conscription, he wasn't alone there.
Mulroney:
Of course he wasn't. But they aren't they aren't around 50 years later to say I'm Captain Canada. Look, out of 11 million citizens of this country, there were a million people – young men from British Columbia to Newfoundland – who rose to fight the Nazis. The most evil machine ever known to man, trying to exterminate the Jews, everybody knew that, and all these young Canadians rose and went overseas to fight them. Pierre Trudeau was not among them. That's a decision he made. He's entitled to make that kind of decision. But it doesn't qualify him for any position of moral leadership in our society.