Editing Mitchell Sharp (section)

==After politics==
Sharp re-entered the public sector as the commissioner of the Northern Pipeline Agency, an agency formed under the Northern Pipeline Act (1978) to give effect to the U.S.-Canada Agreement on Principles Applicable to a Northern Natural Gas Pipeline (1977), from 1978 until 1988.  His public service continued as he served as a co-chairman of a task force on [[conflict of interest]] and published a report on ethical conduct in the public service in 1984.  Other posts included head of the ''Canadian group'' and deputy chairman of the [[Trilateral Commission]] (1976–1986).  From 1988 through 1993, he served as a policy associate with Strategion.  He was a personal adviser to [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Jean Chrétien]] from 1993 to 2003, a job for which he was paid [[Canadian dollar|$]]1 a year.

On February 22, 2004, Sharp fell and broke his [[collarbone]] in his [[home]]. He was taken to [[Elizabeth Bruyere Health Centre (hospital)]], in [[Ottawa]], where he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of [[prostate cancer]]; that disease claimed his life on March 19 of that year. He was 92. He is buried in Ottawa.