the current prime minister stephen harper supported thatcher ' s power to say on chrétien , " i think it ' s well known that . mulroney was an opponent of col . trudeau , " harper said . " he was his deputy mp and , as you know , came to power at the end of the trudeau period after we sought to make a shift . i ' ll leave it to anyone who were there then to fighting those battles . i think it ' s absolutely unreasonable that they might comment . i think these are controversies that are well left to some of the people we were around then and academics . " trudeau ' s former mayors and contacts have rallied behind his heritage and made public comments to dampen chretien ' s accusations .
Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.