Mulroney's main pitch was that as a fluently bilingual Quebecer, he would enable the party to break the Liberal Party's stranglehold on Quebec seats in the House of Commons.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

The Reform Party came into being in 1987, due in part to opposition to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government that ruled Canada from 1984 to 1993.

The Air India Flight 182 bombing, which originated in Montreal, happened during Mulroney's first term.

Widespread public resentment of the Goods and Services Tax, an economic slump, the dilapidation of his political coalition, and his lack of results regarding the Quebec situation caused Mulroney's popularity to decline considerably during his second term.

It was at this time however that Tobin gained prominence as a member of the " Rat Pack ", which was the nickname given to a group of young, high-profile Canadian Liberal opposition MPs during Mulroney's government.

Getty was still more successful at pursuing senate reform during the negotiations for the Charlottetown Accord, when he won the addition of a Triple-E Senate to the package, against Mulroney's opposition.

On June 2012, ABC's world Headquarters annouced that Mulroney would be co-anchoring and contributing on Good Morning America ( GMA ) during the weekends, after being impressed with Mulroney's work as temporary co-host with Kelly Ripa on " Live!

Further infighting dogged the party during the 1988 election but they were successfully able to re-establish themselves as the main opposition to Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives.

Hibernia would become one of a series of regional " mega-projects " that Mulroney's government started across Canada during this time.

He entered Canada's civil service in the 1970s and rose through the ranks of the federal bureaucracy through several high-profile deputy minister portfolios, culminating as the nation's top civil servant from August 12, 1985 to June 30, 1992, when he was appointed Clerk of the Privy Council, in the Privy Council Office of Canada, during Brian Mulroney's ministry.

Among Schreiber's claims was that he had met with Mulroney to discuss business a few days before the then-prime minister stepped down in June 1993, contradicting Mulroney's claim made during his libel suit.

On November 27, CBC Television broadcast a 1991 picture of Schreiber and his wife together with Mulroney and his wife, at an event in Germany ; this was during Mulroney's second term as Canadian prime minister.

In 1995, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) accused Mulroney and Frank Moores of accepting kickbacks from Karlheinz Schreiber on the sale of Airbus planes to the government-owned airline during Mulroney's term as Prime Minister of Canada.

The story quoted retired RCMP inspector Bruce Bowie, who had played a role in preparing the original Canadian legislation, requiring that large cash transactions be reported, which was passed through parliament during Mulroney's own prime ministership.

Some of Mulroney's ancestors immigrated from County Donegal and County Mayo in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine ; he is of mostly Irish descent, with more distant German ancestry.

*" Broke the Furniture " from the album Treble and Tremble plays during the closing credits of Keiran Mulroney's 2009 film Paper Man.

Throughout his political career, Mulroney's fluency in English and French, with Quebec roots in both cultures, gave him two trumps which eventually proved decisive.

One of Mulroney's main priorities, at least publicly, was to lower the deficit, which was running into the billions of dollars.

During his tenure as prime minister, Brian Mulroney's close relationship with U. S. President Ronald Reagan helped result in both a landmark treaty on acid rain and the ratification of a free-trade treaty with the United States under which all tariffs between the two countries would be eliminated by 1998.

Based in large part on remarks from the former prime minister which Newman had taped with Mulroney's knowledge, the book set off national controversy.

Being the first to publicly reveal the renovation costs, the high tab for Brian and Mila Mulroney's changes to the building caused political controversy, especially when some of the costs were paid for from the PC Canada Fund, which raised money from individual donations to fund the Progressive Conservative Party.

It did not help that the provincial election campaign was being run in the aftermath of the failed Meech Lake constitutional accord of Brian Mulroney's federal government, with which Peterson had significant media exposure in association with the other first ministers.

Despite this early perception, the eagerness in which Mulroney's ministry embraced the MacDonald Commission's advocacy of bilateral free trade would come to indicate a sharp drift toward neo-liberal economic policies, comparable to such contemporaries as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Camp returned briefly to active politics when he was named a senior advisor to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's staff from 1986 – 1989, including consulting on the 1988 election which saw Mulroney's government campaign for a free trade agreement with the United States.

Camp left politics in 1989 with some disillusionment toward the increasingly Blue Tory policies of Mulroney's government, as well as several decisions which were leading to western disillusionment in the caucus ( this would later become evident when the Reform Party was established ).

New regional parties which formed in protest to Mulroney's government, the Bloc Québécois in Quebec and the Reform Party in the west won many seats formerly held by the PCs despite a lack of national support.

Stevens turned against Clark, and was an early supporter of Brian Mulroney's leadership bid which culminated in victory at the 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

He was a co-author, along with Robert Chodos and Rae Murphy, of the 1984 book Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie Comeau, which traced the new Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney's life from boyhood to national leadership.

He was promoted to Secretary of State for External Affairs in the short-lived government of Mulroney's successor, Kim Campbell, but lost his seat in the 1993 election which returned only two Tory MPs.

The Globe and Mail, which had published a large front-page picture on November 9, 2007, showing Mulroney meeting with Schreiber in the prime minister's office, accompanied by two of Mulroney's senior staff members, continued its extensive coverage on November 10, and other Canadian media outlets also took up the story.

Schreiber explained further that the money he paid to Mulroney was not for any work Mulroney did while he was prime minister from 1984 – 1993, but was a retainer for future work Mulroney would do for Schreiber after he left political office, as well as a reward for Mulroney's support for German reunification, which was achieved in 1991.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Turner was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in Brian Mulroney's massive sweep in the 1984 election in which the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won more seats than any party before or since.

Mulroney's professional reputation was further enhanced when he ended a strike that was considered impossible to resolve at the Montreal newspaper La Presse.

After his initial difficulties, Mulroney's reputation in his firm steadily increased, and he was made a partner in 1971.

Especially important was the Tories ' performance in Mulroney's home province, Quebec.

A major undertaking by Mulroney's government was an attempt to resolve the divisive issue of national unity.

Another of Mulroney's priorities was the privatization of many of Canada's crown corporations.

Mulroney's second term was marked by an economic recession.

Although the government argued that the tax was not a tax increase, but a tax shift, the highly visible nature of the tax was extremely unpopular, and many resented Mulroney's use of an " emergency " clause in the constitution.

The environment was a key focus of Mulroney's government, as Canada became the first industrialized country to ratify both the biodiversity convention and the climate change convention agreed to at the UN Conference on the Environment.

This turned out to be the first sign that Mulroney's grand coalition was coming apart at the seams ; the PCs had dominated Alberta's federal politics since the 1968 election.

Erik Nielsen, former Deputy Prime Minister for Mulroney, stated disbelief in Mulroney's account, and denied his credibility: " I think there was a phrase that attached to Brian years ago where he was known as Lyin ' Brian, and for my own part, I believe that they're both in the same boat — Schreiber and Mulroney.

Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 was released on September 10, 2007.

It was on December 14, 1989 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's choice of Hnatyshyn to succeed Jeanne Sauvé as the Queen's representative.

Broadbent was the only leader ever to take the NDP to first place in public opinion polling, and some pundits felt that the NDP could supplant Turner's Liberals as the primary opposition to Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives.

Following Brian Mulroney's landslide victory in the 1984 election, Roblin was appointed Leader of the Government in the Senate, and served in Mulroney's cabinet until June 29, 1986.

He was re-elected in the 1984 election even though Brian Mulroney's, Progressive Conservative Party ( PC ) won the largest majority government in Canadian history.