the current prime minister stephen harper supported mulroney ' s right to comment on trudeau , " i think it ' s well said dr . mulroney was an opponent of mr . trudeau , " harper said . " he was his deputy leader and , as you remember , came to power at the opening of the trudeau period when he wanted to force a change . i ' ll leave it to people who were there then to fight those battles . i think it ' s equally reasonable that they would talk . i thought these are debates that are worst left to some of the people they were behind then and academia . " trudeau ' s former columns and friends have been over his legacy and made public comments to diminish thatcher ' s charges .
Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.