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  Brian Mulroney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulroney's government also held a referendum in the North West Territories on the issue of creating a new territory from the eastern half of the North West Territories to be called Nunavut.
Mulroney played a minor role in the scandal that ensued when Belinda Stronach, the Member of Parliament for Newmarket--Aurora, crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party of Canada and was appointed Minister of Human Resources.
Many blamed Mulroney not only for his unpopular policies, but also because Mulroney had stayed on as leader for almost the entire mandate, only resigning at last minute in 1993 when an election would have to be called not long after and leaving Campbell with little time to consolidate her leadership.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Brian_Mulroney   (2470 words)

  
 Brian Mulroney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mulroney's government also held a referendum in the Northwest Territories on the issue of creating a new territory from the eastern half of the Northwest Territories to be called Nunavut.
Mulroney and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher were the first foreign dignitaries to eulogize at a funeral for an American president.
Mulroney began to re-emerge in the late 1990s as something of an elder statesman, but that perception is not universally shared.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Mulroney   (3229 words)

  
 Mulroney, Brian on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Raised in Quebec in a working class family, Mulroney was a successful bilingual lawyer who became active in provincial politics in the 1970s.
Mulroney tried, through the failed Meech Lake Accord, to settle the problem of the constitutional status of Quebec.
Mulroney resigned in 1993 in the midst of a recession.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/mulroney.asp   (522 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search View - Brian Mulroney
Mulroney became extremely unpopular during his time in office; this unpopularity reflected a negative public reaction to his political style and a dissatisfaction with the direction of the country under his leadership.
Mulroney was the third of six children of Irish Canadian parents, whose families had immigrated to Canada in the mid-19th century.
Mulroney was effective at examining witnesses at the commission’s hearings, and he attracted media attention that helped establish him as a public figure in Québec.
encarta.msn.com /text_761567375__1/Brian_Mulroney.html   (3093 words)

  
 Mulroney on Canadian, U.S. roles in new world order   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulroney said the world looks to the United States for leadership on the integration of the newly emerging democracies into the global economy, much as the United States has provided the leadership on the reduction of nuclear arms.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Mulroney said, must be "operating at full speed as soon as possible." In addition, the new international bank, based in London, should remove existing limits on the bank's activities in Russia and the other republics, and double capitalization of the bank to $25 billion.
Mulroney also called for an era of "global sharing" of responsibilities, and said the United Nations should become more of an actor in international affairs, as well as a forum.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/910929Arc1160.html   (821 words)

  
 Politics a bloodsport, Brian Mulroney
Mulroney was candid about some of his colleagues, friends and enemies.
Brian Mulroney ended two terms (9 years) in public office as a leader thoroughly despised by the electorate after he and his policies had been relentlessly vilified by all the left-lib media, which is to say, about 90% of the Canadian media.
Mulroney's government had its share of fiscal mismanagement, scandal and accusations of patronage, but it was nothing like the breathtaking waste and naked corruption the Liberals have inflicted on Canada.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/reid091605.htm   (702 words)

  
 Mila Mulroney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mila Mulroney (born July 15, 1953 in Sarajevo, 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.
Mila Mulroney took a more prominent role than many Prime Ministers' wives while she was in office, acting as a campaigner for several children's charities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mila_Mulroney   (178 words)

  
 Cohen, Mulroney: Canada-U.S. relations 'impaired'
Mulroney outlined a broad vision of cooperative security policies in North America and free trade among all the Americas as he spoke before the audience that included students, business leaders and area politicians.
Mulroney was recently cleared in the Airbus investigation a personal vendetta he claims was launched by the governing Liberals.
Mulroney had always maintained that he was the victim of a vendetta by Chretien's government and sued.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/909257/posts   (824 words)

  
 Random Thoughts from Cowtown: Mulroney's legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sure, Mulroney wasn't able to get the deficit under control during his tenure, but the free trade agreement and the GST set the stage for the economic revitalization the Liberals inherited.
There was no way he was going to allow Mulroney to succeed where he failed and he was prepared to sacrifice the country to assure that.
Mulroney made some feeble attempts at that like cutting the family allowance, but it was always small potatoes.
yourekiddingright.blogspot.com /2005/09/mulroneys-legacy.html   (1325 words)

  
 Dissonance And Disrespect: Mulroney: Caught on Tape, Continued
Mulroney's absolute conviction that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau was behind the undermining of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, a conspiracy that included then-Newfoundland-premier Clyde Wells -- "nothing has ever compared to the lack of principle of this son of a bitch" -- and lawyer Deborah Coyne, who later had a child with Mr.
Mulroney, was that "He didn't want anybody to succeed where he had failed.
Mulroney's hatred of the Ottawa press corps -- "a phony bunch of bastards" -- so visceral that he claims they refused to give him the credit he was due for "brokering" the deal between Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then-U.S.-president George Bush that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
dissonanceanddisrespect.blogspot.com /2005/09/mulroney-caught-on-tape-continued.html   (618 words)

  
 The National Online - Brian Mulroney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Brian Mulroney's years as Prime Minister, were some of the most turbulent in the history of this country.
MULRONEY: Well not that way but I think for example I'm, when this conference came about, I relived the 88 election campaign, not only the negotiations of the deal and what we tried to do but then as you'll remember, the Liberals blocked the deal in Senate.
Mulroney I'd like to come back to this and other subjects in a moment but first we have to make this break, please stay with us, we'll be back after this.
www.tv.cbc.ca /national/pgminfo/mulroney   (1042 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulroney said he was distressed by the “incomprehensible resurgence” of anti-Semitism.
Mulroney said he rejected suggestions his government should be “evenhanded” regarding Israel.
Mulroney also recalled the stains Canada bears for its historical mistreatment of Jews: preventing the doomed passengers of the S.S. St. Louis from disembarking on Canadian shores as they fled the Nazis in 1939; the Christie Pits riot in Toronto in 1933; and the “none-is-too-many” Jewish immigration policy under prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=872   (777 words)

  
 Random House of Canada Limited | The Secret Mulroney Tapes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Compiled from years of candid, taped conversations with Mulroney and the people closest to him while he was in power, the sometimes uproarious and often disturbing interviews-7,400 pages of transcripts totalling 1.8 million words-have been sealed until now.
Mulroney names the names and spills the beans about what really goes on in Ottawa, which he describes as a "sick" city that runs on "goddamned incest": "They're all married to one another.
His first-hand profile of Brian Mulroney is based on seventeen years of frank and intimate discussions with the country's most controversial, and reviled, prime minister.
www.randomhouse.ca /mulroney   (1892 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.
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.
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.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n1_v14/ai_14345443   (1167 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)

  
 Mulroney slams Chretien
Mulroney also implored the candidates vying to succeed Joe Clark in Saturday's leadership vote to lead with conviction and not be slaves to public opinion.
Mulroney spent some minutes praising Clark's contribution as foreign affairs minister and constitutional minister during his governments, but used the bulk of his speech to defend his government's policies and to attack Chretien and Liberal heir apparent Paul Martin.
Mulroney's views on reuniting the right have been in the news recently as he has emerged to give several media interviews, but his comments Friday did little to suggest an end to the current impasse.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/920476/posts   (1484 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Ex-PM Mulroney dispels reports of ill health
Mulroney, 66, said he has lost a lot of weight in the past few months.
Mulroney was speaking Monday shortly after completing a session of physical therapy aimed at helping him rebuild his strength.
Mulroney praised his family and close friends as "wonderful and indispensable'' throughout his ordeal.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1119906872712_7/?hub=Canada   (495 words)

  
 CBC News: Mulroney 'devastated' by Peter C. Newman book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Luc Lavoie said Monday that Mulroney was stunned to turn on the television and learn that what he considered his private reflections would be on store shelves this week.
Mulroney is undergoing physiotherapy and still recovering from surgery following a severe bout of pancreatitis months ago.
Mulroney served as prime minister from Sept. 1984 to June 1993.
www.cbc.ca /storyview/MSN/canada/national/2005/09/12/mulroney_book_20050912.html   (357 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Mulroney "devastated"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulroney was at home in Montreal, where he is undergoing physiotherapy and still recovering from surgery following a serious bout with pancreatitis months ago.
Mulroney met the veteran journalist over 40 years ago and the men became close - so close that Newman wrote a key speech for him for the 1976 Tory leadership convention, says Lavoie.
Mulroney was completely unaware he was being taped most of the time, maintains Lavoie.
feeds.thecanadanews.net /?rid=948e14d3c91d1e65&cat=71df8d33cd2a30df&f=1   (696 words)

  
 Mulroney, Brian --  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.
Not even 4 1/2 months after replacing (June 13) Brian Mulroney as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Campbell and her party suffered a crushing defeat in the October 25 general elections.
Mulroney had never held public office before being elected head of the Progressive Conservative party in 1983 to succeed former Prime Minister Joe Clark.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054235?tocId=9054235   (603 words)

  
 TheStar.com - Brian Mulroney's true legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulroney's mention of me is fleeting and benign in comparison to the vitriol and distain he heaped on colleagues at the Star and other news organizations.
The first is that nowhere does Mulroney seem to realize that his troubles with the media stemmed partly from a complete misunderstanding of the relationship between the national press gallery and politicians.
Perhaps Mulroney's biggest failing as prime minister, though, and one he never talks about in the book, is that more than any politician in modern Canadian history, he is responsible for the disgust and disinterest now shown by voters towards politics.
www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1127425813732&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795   (757 words)

  
 Ogilvy Renault - Our People - Biography
Mulroney acts as Senior Counselor to Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, a global private equity firm in Dallas, Texas.
Mulroney is also a Trustee of the Montreal Heart Institute, the International Advisory Council of the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mulroney has been awarded Canada's highest honour, Companion of the Order of Canada, and has been also been made a grand officer of the Ordre national du Québec.
www.ogilvyrenault.com /en/OurPeople/ProfessionalBio.aspx?id=553   (448 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Newman rejects Mulroney's claims of betrayal
Newman noted that some of Mulroney's dislike for Trudeau was personal, noting it likely stemmed from Trudeau's wealthy upbringing versus Mulroney's working-class roots in a Quebec mill town.
Mulroney also described 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.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1126614315982_91?hub=Canada   (927 words)

  
 CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Mulroney book a source of shock, amusement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Newman's recorded conversations with Mulroney are filled with stinging sarcasm verging on contempt for a variety of targets.
"In 1993, Brian Mulroney was the most unpopular prime minister in the history of Canadian polling and the Progressive Conservative party was at historically low levels of support," she said in an e-mail sent to the Vancouver Sun.
Mulroney spokesman Luc Lavoie says the former premier feels betrayed by the book and wasn't aware he was being recorded.
feeds.thecanadanews.net /?rid=f163a5d578755b96&cat=71df8d33cd2a30df&f=1   (808 words)

  
 eye - Mulroney and the F-word - 04.25.96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulroney's court appearance was the first stage of his libel suit against the federal government.
He is suing the government of Canada for $50 million for sullying his reputation because the RCMP investigated allegations that he took $5 million in bribes to facilitate Air Canada's purchase of $1.8 billion worth of European-made airliners.
Before the denizens of Millhaven and Kingston penitentiaries get the idea that Mulroney may have pointed the way to a nice cash settlement when they finish their stretch, recall that Mulroney hasn't been charged, let alone convicted.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.25.96/NEWS/med0425.htm   (907 words)

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