"My Stories, My Times" by Jean
Chrétien comes on sale this week. While I won’t run out to buy it that soon, I
am looking forward to reading it. Monsieur Chrétien always impressed me as a
down to earth gentleman who dealt fairly and even-handedly. I view him as
perhaps the most politically savvy Canadian PM during my lifetime. He served
his country for decades, having started on that road with the help of his
parents. His dad chose his career and his mother chose his wife. I wonder if
they did that for the other couple of hundred of his siblings. I jest of course,
but it was a big traditional Quebec family.
Remarkably, the Forward has been written by
Joe Clark at Chrétien’s invitation. For Americans reading this blog --- and
that does seem to be the larger part of the readership --- that would be like
Donald Trump writing his memoirs and asking Hillary to write the Forward.
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