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Article: Has it occurred to anybody that maybe what Joe's looking for isn't votes, but a job?(Clark, Joe (politician))(Brief Article)
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- Alberta Report
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- March 27, 2000
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One of the fundamental weaknesses of government in Canada is that we lack a satisfactory way to dispose of used prime ministers. There are now five--Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, John Turner, Kim Campbell and Joe Clark, listed in the order of the relative comfort of their retirement. Poor Joe is unquestionably the worst off, and that's causing unnecessary trouble.
Montreal, of course, takes care of her own. There seems to be a kind of mutual benevolence club which supersedes mere party affiliations. While the Trudeau and Mulroney cabinets wore different political stripes, one always safeguarded the more intimate interests of the other. You could see that in ...