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I Didn't Feel The Need To Have A Lot Of Yes-men Standing Around Me. As Mitchell Sharp Once Put It, The Bigger The Staff, The Smaller The Minister.

Three Months Later, On September 5, 2001, At A Pro-am Event Preceding The Canadian Open At The Royal Montreal Golf Club, I Was Invited To Play A Round With Tiger Woods. Nothing In The Game Of Politics Had Ever Been As Nerve-racking As That Game Of Golf.

It Is Impossible To Fully Comprehend The Evil That Would Have Conjured Up Such A Cowardly And Depraved Assault Upon Thousands Of Innocent People.

Everybody Has The Right To Speak Up In A Democracy. We Would Be In Trouble As A Society If There Wasn't A Constant Pressure To Make Reforms And To Be Just. Sometimes As Prime Minister, When I Was Caught Up In A Really Loud Demonstration, I Used To Say To Myself That I Deserved It Because Of All The Demonstrations I Myself Had Organized As A Student Against Duplessis.

The Two Of Us Had Come A Long Way Together From Our Humble Beginnings And The Basement Apartment That Had Been Our First Home As Newlyweds In 1957, When I Was Still A Law Student At Laval University In Quebec City.