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Brian Mulroney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Mulroney (born March 20, 1939) was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993. Mulroney's support was based on a "grand coalition" of socially conservative populists from the West, Quebec nationalists, and fiscal conservatives from Ontario and the Maritimes. Mulroney's reputation was further enhanced when he ended a strike that was considered impossible to resolve at the Montreal newspaper La Presse In doing so, Mulroney became friends with the paper's owner, Canadian business mogul Paul Desmarais. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Mulroney   (4257 words)

Mulroney, Martin Brian Mulroney, Martin Brian, lawyer, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at Baie-Comeau, Qué 20 Mar 1939). Mulroney's popularity according to the polls was lower than that of any other prime minister in history as he attempted to arrange yet another constitutional pact in the fall of 1992. Brian attended the private St Thomas High School in Chatham, New Brunswick, and then St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he studied political science, joined the campus Conservative club, and was prime minister in the Combined Atlantic Universities Parliament. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005510   (851 words)

MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Brian Mulroney Brian Mulroney was the 18th prime minister of Canada. Mulroney led his party to reelection in 1988 and 1990 before resigning in 1993. He defeated former prime minister Joe Clark in a contest for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership in 1983. encarta.msn.com /media_461515699/Brian_Mulroney.html   (66 words)

Mila Mulroney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mila Mulroney (born July 13, 1953 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia) is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. At the age of 19, she married Mulroney, then a lawyer, on May 26, 1973. She took on a greater role than many Prime Ministers’ wives while Brian was in office, acting as a campaigner for several children’s charities. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mila_Mulroney   (389 words)

Mulroney, Brian - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mulroney, Brian Opposition within Canada to the 1987 Meech Lake agreement, a prerequisite to signing the 1982 Constitution, continued to plague Mulroney in his second term. A revised reform package in October 1992 failed to gain voters' approval, and in February 1993 he was forced to resign the leadership of the Conservative Party, though he remained prime minister until Kim Campbell was appointed his successor in June. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mulroney,%20Brian   (164 words)

St. Thomas names new building Brian Mulroney Hall Mulroney was surprised and honoured when a delegation led by Dr. Daniel O'Brien, President and Vice Chancellor of St. Thomas University, visited him in Montreal to present the proposal and seek his permission to name the building, "Brian Mulroney Hall". Brian Mulroney was a student at St. Thomas College from 1953 to 1955; he graduated after completing his high school programme. Brian Mulroney served almost 9 years as Prime Minister, having led his party to successive majority governments in 1984 and 1988. www.stthomasu.ca /new/news/2002/aug6.htm   (293 words)

Mulroney, Brian on Encyclopedia.com Mark Wilson Getty Images 06-11-2004 WASHINGTON - JUNE 11: Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney bows at the casket during the State Funeral for former President Ronald Reagan at the National Cathedral June 11, 2004 in Washington Mulroney resigned in 1993 in the midst of a recession. Mulroney tried, through the failed Meech Lake Accord, to settle the problem of the constitutional status of Quebec. www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/mulroney.asp   (802 words)

Campaigns & Elections: Goodbye, Brian - former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney - includes related article Mulroney's constant exposure in giving public speeches across the country, the growing disenchantment of the party establishment with Joe Clark after being soundly thrashed in the 1980 federal election, and the backroom maneuvering of Mulroney loyalists terminated with the overthrow of Clark on June 11, 1983, and the installation of Mulroney as party leader. Mulroney's replacement will then be faced with defending such actions; ironically, it was Mulroney's attacks of similar appointments in the last days of the previous Liberal government that eventually swayed public opinion enough to provide the Conservatives with the largest majority ever gained in a federal election. After Mulroney's announcement, Minister of Defense Kim Campbell, 45, a fluently bilingual lawyer and political newcomer from British Columbia was tagged by many insiders and the media as the favorite, although more interest in Canada has been generated by reporting the names of those who are not seeking the leadership. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n1_v14/ai_14345443   (1183 words)

Ogilvy Renault - Our People - Biography Mulroney is also a director of the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation, the International Advisory Council of HEC Montréal, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mulroney serves as Chairman and a director of Persona Communications, Inc., and as a director of Quebecor Media, Lion Capital LLP and Said Holdings Limited, all privately held companies. Prime Minister Mulroney’s government also introduced a series of privatizations, a low inflation policy, historic tax reform, extensive deregulation and expenditure reduction policies that continue to be the basis of Canada’s impressive economic performance today. www.ogilvyrenault.com /en/OurPeople/ProfessionalBio.aspx?id=553   (463 words)

Brian Mulroney.htm Ex PM Brian Mulroney's years as Prime Minister, were some of the most turbulent in the history of this country. Former prime minister Brian Mulroney received a hero's welcome at the federal Tory leadership convention Friday, using his first speech to a party convention in 10 years to slam his old foe, Jean Chretien. Mulroney had nothing to do with the error, but when he showed up at a baseball game, the derisive crowd chanted "tuna, tuna." The fuss over his renovations to his official residence, 24 Sussex Dr., paid for out of PC Party funds and his own pocket, was just as petty. www.wednesday-night.com /BrianMulroney.htm   (5600 words)

CBC News: Mulroney 'devastated' by Peter C. Newman book "Brian Mulroney is a very colourful, entertaining man in a conversation that says things that are said because they're entertaining," he said. A spokesman for Brian Mulroney said Monday the ailing former prime minister feels "devastated" and "betrayed" by the release of a tell-all book by Peter C. Newman. Mulroney served as prime minister from Sept. 1984 to June 1993. www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/09/12/mulroney_book_20050912.html   (358 words)

CBC News: Mulroney back in hospital, doing well MONTREAL- Former prime minister Brian Mulroney underwent surgery for three hours on Friday night to remove liquid that was accumulating near his pancreas. Mulroney was alert and stable, and his doctors are pleased with his response to the treatment, the hospital said. Mulroney, 66, went into hospital in March to have a benign nodule removed from a lung, and developed pancreatitis— an inflammation of the pancreas — while recovering. www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/05/21/mulroney-hospital050521.html   (209 words)

The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney Mulroney's colleagues at Laval, however, refused to believe that Mulroney was talking politics with the Chief and dared him to get Diefenbaker to speak in their law class. Mulroney led the Conservatives to the greatest majority in Canadian history, 211 seats in the House of Commons. By 1961, Mulroney was a student advisor to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/mulroney.htm   (431 words)

Mulroney Baloney The debate over Brian Mulroney's performance during his stormy decade in power rages on, but there is little doubt about his enhanced international stature since he left office in 1993. He knows every dictator in the world on a first-name basis." Brian Mulroney's first high-profile corporate assignment in the USA was an invitation to join the board of Archer, Daniels Midland Company, a giant food additive producer based in Decatur, Illinois, which shortly afterwards got itself into deep doo-doo... Mulroney's lips, the spin campaign his team designed to limit the damage threatened by the looming RCMP Airbus investigation that would name the former prime minister as a target. www.orwelltoday.com /mulroney.shtml   (1806 words)

the Rt. Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney Quiz Answers Martin Brian Mulroney was born in Baie Comeau,Quebec. Brian Mulroney became Prime Minister at the age of 45. Mulroney resigned his office in 1993 as one of the most unpopular Prime Minister in Canadian History since opinion polls were taken. www.hpedsb.on.ca /smood/pm/mul_an.htm   (287 words)

The administration of Brian Mulroney, 1984-93 (from Canada) --  Encyclopædia Britannica In federal elections held in September, the Progressive Conservative Party won a landslide victory, and its leader, Brian Mulroney, a prominent labour lawyer from Quebec, became prime minister. Known as a “writer's writer,” Brian Moore composed novels that were very different from each other in voice, setting, and incident but alike in their lucid, elegant, and vivid prose. Mulroney next abolished a manufacturer's sales tax hidden in the commercial price structure (i.e., the cost of an item) and replaced it with a highly unpopular (and visible) tax on goods and services (GST). www.britannica.com /eb/article-43028?tocId=43028   (1239 words)

AEI - Short Publications It was Brian Mulroney who extracted from the U.S. the 1991 deal that radically reduced emissions of pollutants that cause acid rain: In 2005 a panel of 10 environmentalists reluctantly voted Brian Mulroney the title of the greenest prime minister in Canadian history. In nine years in office, Brian Mulroney put an end to Pierre Trudeau's disastrous experiments in state control of the economy. Brian Mulroney would have been well advised to try this technique. www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.23214/pub_detail.asp   (867 words)

Mulroney.htm Mr. P. E. Trudeau, Mr. Brian Mulroney Brian Mulroney, the prime minister, his wife, Mila, and Ronald Reagan, the U.S. president, with his wife, Nancy, hold hands and sing at the conclusion of the 1985 Quebec City meeting, dubbed the Shamrock Summit after the two leaders sang When Irish Eyes are Smiling. Mulroney, prime minister from 1984 to 1993, and Ronald Reagan, president from 1981 to 1989. Mulroney is also a member of advisory councils to Chase Manhattan Bank and Independent Newspapers PLC of Dublin, Ireland. www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Mulroney.htm   (2019 words)

Brian Mulroney Hall - October 2002 Transitions Mulroney, President of St. Thomas University Dr. Daniel O'Brien, New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord and Senator Noël Kinsella, Chair of the Brian Mulroney Hall Committee, a building dedication and plaque unveiling, and an Invocation by the University Chaplain Rev. John Keoughan. Brian Mulroney served almost 9 years as Prime Minister, having led his party to successive majority governments in 1984 and 1988. A public ceremony to name St. Thomas University's new Professional Studies Building after one of its most distinguished alumni, the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney was held in Fredericton, N.B. on August 28, 2002. www.stthomasu.ca /publications/transitions/oct2002/bmh.htm   (269 words)

Mulroney vs. Turner - Campaigning for Canada - CBC Archives In 1984, Mulroney was widely regarded as the winner in this debate for his strong stance against patronage. Mulroney aggressively attacks Turner on the issue of patronage. While Mulroney's Conservatives went on to win the election, the Liberals moved from third to second place. archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-1181-6516/politics_economy/federal_elections/clip10   (457 words)

Text of Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Eulogy of Former President Reagan (washingtonpost.com) MULRONEY: In the spring of 1987, President Reagan and I were driven into a large hangar at the Ottawa airport to await the arrival of Mrs. MULRONEY: And so in the presence of his beloved and indispensable Nancy, his children, his family, his friends and all of the American people that he so deeply revered, I say au revoir today to a gifted leader and historic president and a gracious human being. MULRONEY: We were alone except for the security details. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A34365-2004Jun11.html   (1051 words)

Bloomberg.com: Canada Mulroney said Kim Campbell, who succeeded him as prime minister, was a ``vain person'' who spent too much time ``screwing around'' with her Russian boyfriend, according to the book. Mulroney, who spent time in the hospital this year after having a lesion removed from his lung, is writing his memoirs. Mulroney, 66, left office with 90 percent of Canadians dissatisfied with his leadership after his Conservative Party doubled retail taxes and failed to pass a treaty to defuse tensions with French-speaking Quebec. www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000082&refer=canada&sid=aOeXPBVxJCcU   (848 words)

BLG - Professionals - Toronto - Brian D. Mulroney Brian Mulroney has extensive experience in advising in connection with wrongful dismissal litigation, including numerous trials and appeals on behalf of a variety of private and public sector clients. Brian D. Mulroney is a partner and Toronto Regional Coordinator of the Labour and Employment Group at Borden Ladner Gervais. Mulroney was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1981. www.blgcanada.com /professionals/bio.asp?LKey=169   (386 words)

CTV.ca Mulroney claims to be 'betrayed' by new book Mulroney is quoted as describing his short-lived successor, Kim Campbell, as a "very vain person who blew the 1993 election because she was too busy screwing around with her Russian boyfriend" resulting in "the most incompetent campaign I've seen in my life." Mulroney is also writing his own memoirs, which are expected in the next year or so. For example, Mulroney thrashed Liberal Prime Minister John Turner in 1984, but his real rivalry was with Trudeau, who was prime minister from 1968 to 1979, and then 1980 to 1984. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1126532304966_70?hub=TopStories   (928 words)

Eye - VideoCabaret takes on Brian Mulroney - 03.18.99 Mulroney's a manipulator -- the classic son of C.D. Howe -- but his character, for dramatic vivacity, is tremendous. He shakes his head: "It should be noted that Mulroney was a very significant prime minister. He's a real rock-'em, sock-'em powerbroker, and he drives the action in a ferocious manner that many audience members will disagree with. www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.18.99/arts/mulroney.html   (638 words)

The 80s Server -- Icons: Martin Brian Mulroney Brian Mulroney of the Conservative party became prime minister of Canada on September 17, 1984, and remained in office until his resignation in 1993 (after his support of NAFTA drew criticism within his party). One of Mulroney's chief accomplishments of the 1980s was the Meech Lake Accord of 1987. Quebec had been the only province that did not ratify Canada's new constitution in 1982. www.80s.com /Icons/Bios/martin_brian_mulroney.html   (124 words)

Washington Speakers Bureau: The Right Honorable Brian Mulroney A World of Experience: Brian Mulroney brought Canada to the forefront of the West, making it a force to be reckoned with by aligning with President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher to create a Western triumvirate that brought about both global transformation and domestic prosperity. As prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney transformed his country into a player on the world stage, initiating world-changing reforms, expanding free trade and shaping today’s global markets — and tomorrow’s global opportunity. Washington Speakers Bureau: The Right Honorable Brian Mulroney www.washingtonspeakers.com /speakers/Speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=1005   (235 words)

Vive le Canada - Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron, Greed, Ambition, and Canadian Fate (Part Two) Apparently seeking justice for wrongs she couldn’t prove against Brian Mulroney, Cameron used highly questionable methods and she dwelled so constantly in denial of her role as a police informer that serious suspicion falls on her. viii), and to his person, during the research and writing of his defense of Mulroney book entitled Presumed Guilty, Brian Mulroney, the Airbus Affair, and the Government of Canada (1998). Even in reference to Mulroney’s answers during the Examination on Discovery for his libel suit against the Canadian government in 1996, Kaplan finds himself called upon to consider what perjury means and what the grounds are for an accusation of perjury. www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/20050315111046357   (2916 words)

Brian Mulroney -  Brian Mulroney recently stated if he were still Prime Minister, Canada would have actively participated in the Iraq war. Mulroney also stated that Can/US relations would improve greatly under Paul Martin, and this is something I stated in an earlier post. I'm still hesistant on agreeing with Mulroney on anything he says simply because he wasn't a good PM. www.techvibes.com /idealbb/view430.html   (208 words)

Brian Mulroney, warning that Liberal "anti-Americanism" has poisoned Canada-U.S. relations. Mulroney said Chretien also hurt Canada-U.S. relations by failing to crack down on the recent surge in his caucus of anti-American sentiment. Mulroney said the latest Chretien gaffe was failing to personally call Bush to explain Canada's position on Iraq. Mulroney argued that Chrétien's policies are being dictated by whatever will fly best in popularity polls. freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/875218/posts   (3059 words)

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