OTTAWA — Prime ministers always say they leave their political legacies to historians. But it’s their successors who largely write that history by deciding what parts of any governing agenda survive.
So what should we glean from the reflections about Brian Mulroney’s legacy? His successors left most of the former Progressive Conservative leader’s important accomplishments intact, even those they once adamantly opposed.
And what might it tell us about which parts of Justin Trudeau’s agenda will survive, or what lessons Pierre Poilievre has taken?
