An Ottawa insider from the time he joined prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s government in 1968, Thomas d’Aquino wrote a memoir in part to spotlight the vision and willingness to collaborate that led to past successes in politics and business
One of the architects of Canada’s economic success over the past five decades fears that what he helped build is now falling apart.
An Ottawa insider from the time he joined prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s government in 1968, Mr. d’Aquino wrote a memoir in part to spotlight the vision and willingness to collaborate that led to past successes in politics and business. He says the discipline and consensus-building common to past achievements are now in short supply in government. As a result, good intentions are “often stymied by partisan politics, opportunism and short-term thinking dictated by election cycles.
The central theme of the book – that Canada is failing to realize its economic potential – echoes the concerns regarding a lack of focus and an inability to execute expressed in recently published books from former finance minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz. In the early 1980s, Mr. d’Aquino played a central role in often contentious negotiations over the National Energy Program and its successor, the Western Accord, with the federal government battling Alberta premier Peter Lougheed and oil and gas executives for control of resources. In the years that followed, the Business Council placed a priority on policies that created a sustainable energy sector. Mr.
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