Wrote many letters to a number of Defence Minister's including Minister David Collenette, in
support and retention of the CAR, and later to other MND's to reinstate the famous unit, to
no avail, in fact I posted a reply from one MND on this site. Collenette was a Toronto MP,who
stumbled into the Liberal nomination when the sitting MP, Doug Abbott became ill. He was a
consultant in Toronto, "Mandrake Consultants". He was an early supporter of Chretien, who
made sure his political supporters were rewarded, but, having said that, I have always felt that
if the Generals of the period had formed a common front, and were not intimidated by DM
Fowler, Collenette would have caved in. Chretien of course could have cared less about the CAR
-he never had any links with the Canadian Military - just a politician. One of the worst days in the
history of the Canadian Army, an event that should never have happened. Scott Taylor was no
friend to the CAR, as many of you know far better than I - a lot of the negative stuff was leaked
by him to the CBC, who did a real hatchet job on the troops -wrote Taylor off years ago. MacLeod