the former prime minister andrew harcourt promoted mulroney ' s right to comments on trudeau , " i think it ' s now acknowledged too . mulroney was an opponent of mr . trudeau , " harper said . " he was his opposition whip and , as you know , came to power at the end of the trudeau ministry while everyone sought to make a change . i ' ll delegate it to you who were there then to fight those debates . i think it ' s very reasonable that they never comment . i think these are debates that are best suited to some of the people who were around then and academics . " pierre ' s former piers and friends have included behind his record and made specific comments to dampen mulroney ' s accusations .
Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.