Transcript: Linda Wertheimer speaks with Derek Burney, former Canadian Ambassadorto the...

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February 24, 1993
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: Derek Burney is a former Canadian Ambassador to the United States. He served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Mulroney in the eighties, and he is now the executive vice president of Bell Canada, Enterprises.

Mr. Burney, thank you very much for joining us.

DEREK BURNEY, Fmr. Canadian Amb. to U.S.: My pleasure.

WERTHEIMER: Could you tell me why you think Mr. Mulroney has decided to do this now? Why now?

Mr. BURNEY: Well, he- what he said was that he wanted to do something that no Conservative leader had ever done in Canada, and that was pass power to a new prime minister from his own Party, and so I think there's a ...

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