Calgary Sun | 08June2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.calgarysun.com/comment/letters/2010/06/08/14306136.html
MULRONEY'S NOBEL AMBITION
Re: Peter Worthington's, "Ethics can't be taught," June 7, 2010. When
Brian and Mila Mulroney stood alongside Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the
1985 Shamrock Summit in Quebec City joining in a rousing chorus of When
Irish Eyes Are Smiling, we saw a Canadian prime minister deliver the
photo-op of the century. This latter-day Schreiber scandal has become
the skunk in the tent of Mulroney's legacy. What we see now is a former
national leader who allowed lowbrow greed to trump genuine
self-interest. Banking on his stature as an elder statesman and proven
skills as a negotiator, a reinvented Brian Mulroney would surely have
found a vital role to play on the world stage, the kind that receives a
Nobel nomination.
OREST SLEPOKURA
STRATHMORE, ALTA
(If Al Gore can win a
Nobel prize, why not Brian?)