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One of his era’s most important political advisors was born in High River, Alberta on this date in 1938. Jim Coutts went on to serve as Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s Appointments Secretary. Later, he became Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s Principal Secretary and served in this crucial non-elected post from 1975 until 1981.
He passed into history in 2013. At the time of his death, his friend and Trudeau PMO colleague, Tom Axworthy, said Coutts played key roles in the patriation of Canada’s Constitution.He was part of those discussions about the constitution at the beginning, the middle, and the end,” Axworthy told the. “His view was that in terms of the constitution, you had to have a federal government that retained enough authority to make equal opportunities happen.
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