The Canadian Press: “It’s like watching Fred Astaire or something,” Rankin said. “He’s so smooth — everything he says, every move he makes is perfect. He’s just charming the whole country into oblivion … he was very skilled at the game of chess that is politics.”
This is the Mulroney Canada remembered upon his death in February 2024: the smooth-talking, Baie-Comeau-born Irishman known for his baritone voice and values-driven politics.
The later-career controversies were less-talked about. But the film shows Mulroney to be ruthless and “kind of duplicitous at times,” Rankin said…