And we could blame Jean Chrétien for not anticipating and preparing for what turned out to be a razor-thin referendum vote. Had he lost the vote, Chrétien is unlikely to have survived in office. Rather than dialing it down our supporters went in the opposite direction and openly challenged the prime minister and his team. He understood he was to be a transactional prime minister and not a transformational prime minister. It’s not an accomplishment, he said, for a prime minister (or president of the United States) to be in the news a lot.

Source: National Post October 31, 2017 16:42 UTC