Today in Canada’s Political History: Outgoing British High Commissioner to Canada, Lord Moran, pens devastating critique of Canadian politics and politicians
On this date in 1984, just before departure after serving as the UK’s High Commissioner to Canada since 1981, Lord Moran sent a report of his final impressions of Canada to the British Foreign in London. His critique was devastating, with his contempt for Pierre Trudeau and indeed, most personalities in Canadian politics of the day, coming through on each page.
“Many of my colleagues here admire him,” he wrote of Trudeau. “I cannot say I do. He is an odd fish and his own worst enemy, and on the whole, I think his influence on Canada in the last 16 years has been detrimental.” Moran then went on to lament what he called the “low quality” of Canadian politicians of all parties. He wrote that Canadians leaders in business and finance were much more impressive.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/Lord-Moran.pdfis an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon.
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