According to Senior Vice-President Doug Anderson “From a public opinion perspective, it seems that most of the reputation damage Mr. Mulroney experienced as a result of his relationship Karlheinz Schreiber has already been done. Canadians who already feel less favourable towards Mr. Mulroney tend to be the same people who feel the Oliphant Report will cause further harm, to the former Prime Minister's reputation. Without having yet had the opportunity to read the Oliphant report, the majority feel this should be the last of the inquiries on this topic."

• Few describe Mr. Mulroney as an excellent or good Prime Minister. Just less than one in five described him as excellent (3%) or good (16%), while 45% were of the view that he was an okay Prime Minister and one in four (24%) feltl Mr. Mulroney was a bad Prime Minister. Residents of Quebec were the most likely to diverge from the national average, with 37% feeling he was at least a good Prime Minister.
• One in three thinks the Oliphant Report will hurt Mr. Mulroney’s reputation, but a plurality thinks it will have no effect on his reputation. Nationally, 33% believe the report from Justice Oliphant will hurt the former Prime Minister’s reputation, while 49% think it will have no effect on it. Just 2% think Mr. Mulroney’s reputation will be helped by the Oliphant report.
• Men, those with household incomes exceeding $100k/year and residents of Manitoba and Saskatchewan were most likely to think Mr. Mulroney’s reputation will be hurt by the Oliphant report.
• Those with weaker opinions of Mr. Mulroney’s tenure as Prime Minister are more likely to think the report will harm his reputation. Among those who thought he was a bad Prime Minister, 45% think his reputation will be damaged by the Oliphant report, compared to 35% who think he was an okay Prime Minister, 25% who thought he was a good one, and 27% who thought he was excellent.
• A majority of Canadians think inquiries into the business dealings between Mr. Mulroney and Karlheinz Shreiber should end with the Oliphant inquiry. In total, 61% were of this view, more than twice the number who thought further inquiries should be held to investigate the relationship between the two men while Mr. Mulroney was in office (25%). Younger Canadians and residents of Alberta are most likely to think there should be further inquiries into the relationship.
• Once again, opinions of Mr. Mulroney’s time in office are a key driver on this question. Four in ten (40%) who thought he was a bad Prime Minister believe further inquiries should be held, compared to just 9% among those who thought he was an excellent Prime Minister. Roughly one in four 24%) who thought he was an okay Prime Minister felt there should be further inquiries, as did 13% who said he was a good Prime Minister.
• Similarly, those who believe this report will hurt his reputation are more likely to want another inquiry. Nationally, 40% of this group of respondents felt there should be another inquiry, while 18% of those who thought the report would either have no effect, or help his reputation believe there should be another inquiry.

Each week, Harris/Decima interviews just over 1000 Canadians through teleVox, the company’s national telephone omnibus survey. These data were gathered between May 27 and May 30 2010. A sample of the same size has a margin of error of 3.1%, 19 times out of 20.