Brian Mulroney, Then and Now

In the summer of 1993, Brian Mulroney was at a crossroads. After 10 years as leader of the Progressive Conservatives, nine as a two-term majority prime minister, he had resigned earlier in the year, consistent with a long-ago vow to serve no more than two terms. 

By any measure, his time in office had been consequential, his accomplishments significant, his leadership sometimes controversial, and, by the end, downright unpopular. Now, back in Montreal and committed to no longer speaking out publicly, he alternately considered his personal future away from politics and fretted over the attacks the opposition Liberals were making on his achievements and legacy. [MORE]