Michael Bliss's September 23 Financial Post column about the American credit crisis contained a reference to "the personally ascetic prime minister, Pierre Trudeau". The phrase should have read "the personally ascetic prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, who was a jet-setting nightclub and discotheque fixture throughout his career, favoured expensively tailored clothing, married a 22-year-old woman (one he had met in Tahiti) at the age of 51, dated Barbra Streisand and Liona Boyd on the cusp of turning 60, and fathered a child out of wedlock at 71". The Post regrets the error.
Comments (5)
Thank you. Transparency in the media is the best.
Posted by Half Canadian | September 23, 2008 8:21 AM
Posted on September 23, 2008 08:21
And drove an SL 300 roadster
And was an oil heir millionaire.
Posted by Imethisguy | September 23, 2008 11:47 AM
Posted on September 23, 2008 11:47
Just goes to show you that a history degree (heh) isn't worth that much when you have a special agenda to press forward.
Is it already time to raise P.E.T. to sainthood?
Posted by Dwayne | September 23, 2008 9:10 PM
Posted on September 23, 2008 21:10
Special agenda, Dwayne? Bliss was a supporter of the Canadian Alliance, and in his book, went after Trudeau for his errant spending, though he's an admirer for his unity stance.
I would say he meant ascetic in the sense that Trudeau was, in his home life, a complete cheapskate and contemptuous of waste.
Posted by AtlatnicTy | September 24, 2008 7:28 AM
Posted on September 24, 2008 07:28
http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/Awards/uprofessors/emeritus/Professor_Michael_Bliss.htm
My error perhaps, when I read a C.V. like that all I can see is Steph Dion and his ilk. His Wiki also points out he entered the U of T in 1958 and has never left. I can see an ivory tower problem if there ever was one.
Posted by Dwayne | September 24, 2008 3:39 PM
Posted on September 24, 2008 15:39