The decision by a Parks Canada board to change rules so that former prime minister Brian Mulroney won’t be recognized as a “national historic person” for 25 years is so petty, it borders on spiteful.

As first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, an online publication that reports on the inner machinations of the federal government, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board decided shortly after Mulroney’s death last year that it would delay honouring him for a quarter of a century.

Mulroney’s son, Ben, points out in his podcast that his father created eight new national parks and is widely acknowledged as one of this country’s “greenest” prime ministers, partly because he negotiated an Acid Rain agreement with the United States.

Ben called it a “boneheaded” decision and said that 24 hours aft

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