“There would have been a day when we would have been the Greece of today,” recalled then-prime minister Jean Chretien, a Liberal who ended up chopping cherished social programs in one of the most dramatic fiscal turnarounds ever.
“I knew we were in a bind and we had to do something,” Chretien, 77, told Reuters in a rare interview.
I’ll never forget Chretien and his awesome accent from my days in Canada.
