I believed that it would be beneficial to the country to have him as leader of the Liberal Party for a variety of reasons, not least of which was his views on the national unity issue, and I did what I could to help.
Je croyais, pour diverses raisons, qu'il était dans l'intérêt du pays qu'il dirige le Parti libéral et l'une de ces raisons, non la moindre, concernait sa conception de l'unité nationale.