Historians have written that Jean Chrétien was moderately competent and only moderately corrupt -- a prime minister who led a listless administration without a defining legacy.
Chrétien may not have articulated a grand vision or impressed the elites with his plain-spoken ways, but he focused on what mattered to Canadians in their day-to-day lives. He fixed problems and made difficult and sometimes controversial decisions that have placed him on the right side of history.
His critics have it wrong. For a man who was thought to be flippant, Chretien was as clever and cunning as a fox. Globe and Mail bestselling author Bob Plamondon makes the case that Jean Chretien was the right leader for the times and a great prime minister.
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