From Mulroney's a/bio:

...Preston Manning and his supporters spread venom about us and ate into our base in western Canada... (744)

..."I am v. confident about Canada's future because the Bloc Quebecois and REform Party are cut from the same cloth" I said one Wednesday in April. "They're incapable of taking a broad, generous view of Canada. They both view language as an instrument of division rather then an instrument of unity. Yes, apperaences are bleak. People are upset, crabby, self-centred, selfish. Of course they blame politicans and never themslves. It;s now our job to get Canadians off the pyscharists couh and back to reality..." (846-7)

John Crosbie gave me his own characteristically blunt views on reform in his annual letter to me in Dec. 1990: "Generally speaking, in WEstern Canada, our problem is the REform party. The problem in the west is not western al ienaiton so much as it is western lallucination. Our progress in deficit reduction and in other areas that appeal to those of a conserative na ture has to be gotten across and the reform parrt has to be confornted... (811)