When one Canadian province decides to opt out of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, you expect prime ministers to speak out strongly. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in an armchair discussion at the Women in the World Summit in Toronto on Sept. 10, 2018. Managing that “rough patch,” as Mulroney described the past few months of the Trump-Trudeau relationship on Tuesday, may be all the populist battles that Canada’s prime minister can handle right now. His father, Pierre, wasn’t shy about criticizing Mulroney when he thought the power of the Constitution was getting diluted in the 1980s. Then again, perhaps the Charter and the Constitution are easier for former prime ministers to defend.

Source: thestar September 11, 2018 22:13 UTC