Damn straight!
Nobody should ever apologize for being working class, for working in a paper-mill or a in a shipyard or on a construction site.
"Lyin' Brian" worked hard all his life to escape his working class roots. That was his choice.
Brian became a complete traitor to those he left behind after he went through those university doors. The son of an electrician who worked in the mines worked very hard to give the class he aspired to, the ruling class, one of the greatest gifts of the late 20th century.
Free trade.
Brian worked very hard to facilitate the destruction of Canada's working class by legitimising the wholesale de-industrialization of the Canadian economy.
Thanks to Brian, the capitalist class could move their factories to Mexico. Twenty dollar an hour jobs in Southern Ontario became dollar an hour jobs in Monterrey.
On his retirement from politics, Brian was richly rewarded with lucrative do-nothing sinecures on corporate boards. The electrician's son from Baie Comeau is a millionaire many times over.
Good on Meaghan for calling out this BS. Not everybody aspires to wealth and power, and those who don't are just as entitled to a dignified life as is Brian Mulroney.
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