For more than eight hours on Tuesday, the late Brian Mulroney’s family — wife Mila, daughter Caroline and three sons Ben, Mark and Nicolas — stood in a receiving line and greeted almost everyone who came to pay their respects to the former prime minister — roughly 900 people.
On Wednesday morning they again took up their stations next to the flag-draped casket, the official portrait and the military honour guard. For four hours (and counting), they’ve been shaking hands with everyone from state dignitaries to former staffers to everyday Canadians, all of them there to offer condolences or share stories about a key figure in Canadian
