The Secret Mulroney Tapes was convicted on. On December 5, 2005, Mulroney accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Concordia University. During the speech, he joked that he would be brief because he could only speak at length when he's being tape recorded - making a passing joke about the tapes. The Secret Mulroney Tapes The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister is a biography of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, by writer and former Mulroney confidant Peter C. Newman. The book was released by Random House Canada on September 12, 2005. The book is based on hours of
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada such as the Ottawa Humane Society. Conversely, other prime ministers' spouses, including Geills Turner and Sheila Martin, were uncomfortable with the public aspects of their role and tried to minimize their time in the press spotlight. Many have also held an unofficial but influential role as a political or campaign advisor to their husbands: both Mila Mulroney and Laureen Harper were considered their husbands' "secret weapons", whose instinctive sense of campaign optics proved invaluable to their husbands' careers; Harper, for example, was credited as the brains behind a public appearance in which her husband, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appeared on