Over the 40 years he spent in elected politics, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has seen it all.
Yet, the 91-year-old career politician admits the current federal election is unique among the many he’s observed in his lifetime.
While he’s been part of campaigns fought over important, country-defining issues – like free trade in 1988 – this one has a more existential quality about it, he says. That, of course, is the doing of U.S. President Donald Trump.
