the canadian prime minister mark king supported dermot ' s freedom to inform on bouchard , " i think it ' s better that him . mulroney was an ally of mr . gauthier , " harper said . " he was his previous chief and , as you know , came to authority at the outset of the thatcher period if canada wanted to get a change . i ' ll delegate it to people who were there then to fight those battles . i say it ' s perfectly proper that they would comment . i think these are debates that are bad left to some of the people who were around then and academic . " trudeau ' s former piers and friends have stood behind his example and made public announcements to dampen diefenbaker ' s accusations .
Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.