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Canada's Prime Ministers #18 Martin "Brian" Mulroney Dec. 11, 2007

Canada's 18th Prime Minister Brian  Mulroney

Brian Mulroney has been in the news lately as he has been falsely implicated by a deperate criminal / former arms dealer who is trying to save his own hide from being extradited to Germany where he faces Fraud and Corruption charges and where he will most likely live out the rest of his life.  It is with great sadness that I see a desperate Opposition trying to bring up an old Scandal that he was already exghonerated for in an effort to tar our current government.  Likewise I am sad to see our Canadian Left Wing Biased Media up to it's old tactics of character assasinations

I believe he is innocent of these charges and I believe he will probably be be looked at in History as one of our greatest Prime Ministers, he ended much of teh Liberal corruption and tax and spend policies of Trudeau, he was able to get a constitutional concensus of all 10 Premiers only to have it later rejected.  Things he is sometimes criticized were in fact some of his best public policy initiatives in Canadian History, he got rid of a hidden Manufactures tax which the government could raise without being noticed and replaced it with the GST a Value Added tax that was visible and governments could be held accountable for raising.  He brought about North American Free Trade, he strengthened our Relationship with The US and the UK only to have his successor Jean Chretien ruin these relationships with our most important allies, he re-established 3 seperate branches of our armed forces reversing the intergration that Trudeau had forced upon our Military, he was the greenest Prime Minister ever when it comes to environmental policy.  He was a no nonsense business man which is why he rubbed peopel the wrong way. But he also lead the Largest Majority ever in Canadian Parliament and he was re-elected despite the fierce left wing media opposition to his forward thinking policies.

Brian Mulroney is the reason I am a Conservative, and in away though he's not a Christian himself, he is important in my Christian walk, the reshaping of my political ideologies lead me to rethink much of what I believe about religion and made me more open to Christianity.

The following is a from the Canadian Encyclodedia's Article on Brian Mulroney

Martin Brian Mulroney, lawyer, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at Baie-Comeau, Qué 20 Mar 1939). The son of Irish immigrants, Mulroney's father was an electrician, anxious that his children escape the paper mill that dominated Baie-Comeau. 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. He worked for John DIEFENBAKER's successful leadership campaign in 1956. Smooth beyond his years, fluently bilingual and gregarious, Mulroney returned to Québec in 1961, receiving a law degree at Laval. He joined a major Montréal law firm (now Ogilvy-Renault) in 1964, soon specializing in labour negotiations for concerns such as Iron Ore Company of Canada and Power Corporation of Canada. His father died in 1965, and Mulroney took on heavy family responsibilities. Later, in 1973, he married Mila Pivnicki.

In 1974-75 Mulroney won public attention as an articulate and hard-hitting member of the Cliche Commission on violence and corruption in the construction industry in Québec. By now he was the leading Conservative organizer and fund-raiser in the province. Despite never having run for office, he was a strong candidate for the leadership of the federal party in 1976, finally being eliminated on the third ballot. He became VP of Iron Ore Company in 1976; as president 1977-83 he emphasized management-labour relations and was able, at the end of his term, to close the company's operation in Schefferville, Québec, without serious political repercussions. Mulroney again ran for the PC leadership in 1983, a low-key effort in response to charges that his 1976 campaign had been too slick and showy. He beat Joe CLARK on the final ballot: 1584 votes to 1325.

As leader of the Opposition and MP for Central Nova in 1983-84, he proved a skilful manager, concentrating on healing party wounds and building a solid electoral machine. Moderate and conciliatory by nature, he called for a strengthened private sector and less government intervention in the economy, minority French-language rights, and closer Canadian-American and federal-provincial relations. In the general election of 1984 he ran an almost flawless campaign against PM John Turner's Liberals and won 211 seats, the largest number in Canadian history. Mulroney, who had always emphasized the importance of Québec to the Conservatives, captured the seat of Manicouagan, his home riding. His pledge to bring Quebec to the Constitution "with honour and enthusiasm" was decisive in persuading many Quebec nationalists to support the Conservatives. The party took 58 of its seats in the province, the breakthrough that Mulroney had promised would take place under his leadership. He was sworn in as the 18th prime minister on 17 September 1984.

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