bout de papier, Volume 8, Issue No. 2, 1991

An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years: The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan

shaping Canadian foreign policy. “Trudeau’s style,” MacGuigan writes, “was … dangerous. His instinct, it always seemed to me, Was not just to establish objectively that he was right, by demolishing his opponents’ arguments, but also to destroy their self-respect, to hurt them…
“I’ll be with you in a minute, Mr. Ambassador”: The Education of a Canadian Diplomat in Washington

Reviewed by Peter Dobell
