If he is one consumed with his public image (the saintly, heart-on-sleeves, politically correct, embracer of all safe, feel-good, societally approved schticks) and winning, he is also a pragmatist who finds it very easy to discard and kick aside all that has lost public favour or that...
I know this sound really odd but Martin allowed non banking industrial corporations to own banks such as Canadian Tire(a big no no in the US) and allowed banks to get into businesses such as insurance and energy/commodities trading in a far more explicit way than is allowed in the US. C...