Peter C. Newman's book contains fabrications and inaccuracies, and was published in contravention of a signed agreement between the author and Mulroney, the former PM says today in a long article by his former speechwriter L. Ian MacDonald. An example:
Newman also writes that before the 1976 Conservative leadership convention, "Along with Ian MacDonald of the Montreal Gazette and Peter Desbarats of Global News, I attended one of Mulroney's final pre-convention strategy sessions at a cottage in Quebec's Eastern Townships, near Magog.
I don't know whether Desbarats was there, but I [L. Ian MacDonald] sure wasn't.
"Neither was Desbarats," says Mulroney.
Some may attribute this to fuzzy memory problems because of the time lapse. Others might surmise that it was done deliberately to, in that now-famous phrase, "sex up" the story. In any event, Mulroney is obviously fuming about this apparent breach of trust and friendship.
I repeat: never agree to be taped!
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 9:30 AM