If prime minister-designate Mark Carney is looking for a roadmap to victory in the upcoming election, he could do worse than follow in the footsteps of Jean Chrétien.
The rules are simple: ignore everything you’ve ever said previously and beat up on the sitting Republican U.S. president at every opportunity.
Amid all the revisionist history that the former prime minister rolled out during his address to last weekend’s Liberal leadership convention, I was struck by the pride Chrétien took in his fiscal management in the late 1990s, having inherited an alleged “mess” from the Progressive Conservatives following the 1993 election.
