On the day he announced his intention to resign as prime minister after nearly nine years in office, Brian Mulroney appealed to the verdict of future generations.
“It will now be up to history to place a definitive judgment on our efforts and our legacy,” he said.
Thirty years later, in one of his last public speeches, Mulroney passed his own verdict on his political history — a judgment that Justin Trudeau, another beleaguered prime minister now nearly nine years in office, quoted in the House of Commons last week to mark Mulroney’s passing:
“I have learned over the years that history is unconcerned with the trivia
