Mood: caffeinated
Hahahhaha Mulroney.
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Theres on old saying in politics: "Once a Turner guy...always a Turner guy."
This is funny.
The Right Honourable
John Napier Turner
News Conference to Call an Election - July 9, 1984
Q: BOB EVANS (CTV News) -- Prime Minister, while he was out west, Brian Mulroney mentioned on several occasions that he was driving a truck in Baie Comeau, while you were dancing with Princess Margaret. I was wondering weather you consider that a trivialization of politics and if not which would you consider the image that has more vote-getting character, being a truck driver or ballroom dancer.
A. I like the question but I am really going to be sticking to the issues.
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Maclean's December 1, 1997
Author BRUCE WALLACE
The Canadian Encyclopedia ? 2006 Historica Foundation of Canada
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John Turner once privately predicted no prime minister would ever put (Lloyd) Axworthy in foreign affairs because the newspaper clippings file was too thick with quotes from Axworthy bashing Washington.
Global Commons, touchy-feely "people power" language that can still evoke sneers from the clubby diplomatic elites who insist they still shape the world. In Ottawa, the skeptics are already whispering that Axworthy is overestimating Canada's weight in the world. It will all come crashing down on this crazy small-arms control plan he is floating, they say. Not sexy enough. You might reduce the number of small arms, but you will never get rid of them. "We'll see," says Axworthy with a tight smile, still dreaming in a cynical age where the realists are writing him off again already.
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