Brown, who is now the mayor of Brampton, Ont., alleges that Brian Mulroney promised him a place at the “centre” of his daughter’s government if the ousted Tory leader pledged his support to help her become party leader, and eventually premier. The alleged negotiations took place during a late-night meeting in a downtown Toronto hotel’s presidential suite where the then-resigned Brown met with Brian Mulroney and his daughter Caroline’s husband Andrew Lapham. While it’s not surprising that Brian Mulroney would help his daughter’s political career, the fact that the Ontario election saw so much overlap between federal and provincial politics is unusual, de Clercy said. “We tend often in Canada to keep the federal politicians at the federal level and the provincial politicians at the provincial level, but this past campaign we saw a lot of interlacing of federal politicians interested in the provincial race, running in the provincial race, wanting to run in the provincial race,” she said. University of Toronto political science professor Nelson Wiseman said what stands out about Brown’s book is his “exceptional bitterness.” There appears to be little political strategy behind the release of the tell-all other than to “throw boulders”, he said.

Source: National Post November 15, 2018 01:10 UTC