MONTREAL — After two days of public tributes in Ottawa, it was Montrealers' turn on Thursday to pay respects to Brian Mulroney — who was lauded by one citizen as 'a little guy' from Quebec's North Shore who never forgot his roots, even as he rose to
MONTREAL — After two days of public tributes in Ottawa, it was Montrealers' turn on Thursday to pay respects to Brian Mulroney — who was lauded by one citizen as"a little guy" from Quebec's North Shore who never forgot his roots, even as he rose to become prime minister.
Lucien Bouchard, Quebec premier from 1996 to 2001 and a cabinet minister in Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government until a falling out over the Constitution, was one of the first to enter the basilica on Thursday morning and greet the Mulroney family. "Those were great times and sad at the same time because we lost so much time .... But we were young — ego, strong convictions from a very legitimate question at stake. It’s a lesson," he said."Politics is necessary, but it’s also necessary to deal with it in a human way."
Denis Scherrer recalled babysitting Mulroney's son Ben while his father campaigned near a hotel where he worked in eastern Quebec. Gilles Gaudreau, who founded a Conservative association in Quebec's Richelieu region, said Mulroney had tried to bring Canada and Quebec together. As prime minister, Mulroney twice tried to secure the province's support for the Constitution with the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords, though he was ultimately unsuccessful.
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