Unhappy Anniversary

To understand what Brian Mulroney and his Tories have done in one year since winning the most impressive mandate in Canadian political history, recall the Boston Red Sox of 1978. The Sox had a 14½game lead on the Yankees in August. They blew it, and the Yankees went on to win the World Series. That memorable collapse is a fair comparison with the disaster now unfolding here.

Only six months ago, Mulroney stood even taller in the polls than on September 4, 1984, when he carried every province in the country on the way to an awesome landslide. The Liberals, Canada’s majority party for the last sixty years, not only had been annihilated federally, but for the first time ever were not in power in any provincial government. Flushed with success, Tories everywhere talked of a new national realignment.

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To understand what Brian Mulroney and his Tories have done in one year since winning the most impressive mandate in Canadian political history, recall the Boston Red Sox of 1978. The Sox had a 14½game lead on the Yankees in August. They blew it, and the Yankees went on to win the World Series. That memorable collapse is a fair comparison with the disaster now unfolding here.

Only six months ago, Mulroney stood even taller in the polls than on September 4, 1984, when he carried every province in the country on the way to an awesome landslide. The Liberals, Canada’s majority party for the last sixty years, not only had been annihilated federally, but for the first time ever were not in power in any provincial government. Flushed with success, Tories everywhere talked of a new national realignment.