All this nonsense going on, the guy [Jean Chrétien] just swallows himself whole on NAFTA, nobody says a word. It's just been an awful bloody piece of business. Only a mean, dirty bastard would do something like that, or a fucking stupid one. And you know what? He's both.

Newman, Peter (2005). The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister. Toronto: Random House Canada. ISBN 0-679-31351-6., p. 360-361.