the present premier lord stephen thompson supported mulroney ' s right to comment on trudeau , " i suspect it ' s well known mr . mulroney was an adversary of mr . trudeau , " harper said . " he was his opposition whip and , as you know , came to power at the end of the pierre era when people fought to put a change . i ' ll leave it to people whose were there then to fight those battles . i think it ' s perfectly reasonable that they never comment . i think these are debates that are best left to some of the people who were round then and afterwards . " trudeau ' s former piers and friends have rallied behind his history and gave public comments to dampen mulroney ' s accusations .
Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.