David Frum on Brian Mulroney

So the record is very far from perfect. But then it always is, isn't it? In politics, everything is a matter of balance, triumphs against defeats, courage against opportunism, human flaws against human nobility. And weighed in that balance, Brian Mulroney ranks among the very best leaders Canada has ever had, certainly the best since Louis St. Laurent. And if he ranks behind the very greatest, behind for example that boozy, cunning, patronage-dispensing old rascal John A. Macdonald--it may well be because Macdonald had the sense never to trust a Peter C. Newman.