It's suspicious when Chrétien won't talk about himself: Selley

There are certain phrases that properly arouse immediate suspicion. “The dog did it,” for example. “Trump apologizes.” Or, “Jean Chrétien declines to talk about himself.” The latter is in play because the former Liberal prime minister has declined to appear before a parliamentary committee to discuss certain rather unsavoury directives he might have given his immigration minister in 1995 with an eye to winning the Quebec independence referendum.

Teflon Jean loves to talk about himself and his genius the way most of us love breathing, which is to say it’s essentially an involuntary function. He doesn’t even need to think about it. And in the past that has certainly included matters pertaining to very nearly losing that referendum campaign, and subsequent efforts — known collectively as t