Respected by leaders around world, Brian Mulroney is receiving international honours at an accelerating rate and will hopefully be around when most of the honours still to come are bestowed upon him.

Such was his respect internationally that he could have been secretary general at the UN in the 1990s had he wanted it.

Brian Mulroney on the economic policy side and Lester Pearson on the social policy side were the two greatest post WWII prime ministers this country has yet seen.  Mulroney set our economic agenda for at least two generations.   

This and his many other contributions to Canada will be remembered long after his acceptance after leaving the PM office of money from a German lobbyist with more cash to splash around Ottawa than he had brains.  Unlike the Clintons who the lefty loons here love so much and who provided access to some of the most unsavory dictators and regimes in the world in return for $150-300 million since 2000,  Mulroney did nothing for the lobbyist.