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Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.
As chairman of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chairman if Cerberus had successfully acquired Air Canada.
She had directed the detailed planning of the funeral, including ordering all the major events and asking former President George H. W. Bush as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak during the National Cathedral Service.
The initial coalition that led to the Bloc was headed by Lucien Bouchard, who had been federal Minister of the Environment in the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.
Mulroney had expected Turner to tour Canada during the summer and early autumn, accompanying the Queen and the Pope on their visits, gaining some free publicity, then call the election for later in the autumn.
During the televised leaders ' debate, Turner attacked PC leader Brian Mulroney over the patronage machine that the latter had allegedly set up in anticipation of victory, comparing it to the old days of the Union Nationale in Quebec.
Mulroney demanded that Turner apologize to the country for what he called " these horrible appointments ", but Turner claimed that " I had no option " except to let them stand, since otherwise he may have not been able to form a government.
Mulroney famously responded, " You had an option, sirto say ' no ' and you chose to say ' yes ' to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party.
" Mulroney further noted that as the Liberals had been governing continuously since 1963 ( save for Joe Clark's short-lived minority in 1979-80 ), virtually all federal patronage appointments had been made by the Liberals .< ref >
Mulroney would frequently tell stories about newspaper publisher Robert R. McCormick, whose company had founded Baie-Comeau.
Mulroney had not been involved in politics at any level prior to entering St. Francis Xavier University in the fall of 1955 as a 16-year-old freshman.
Mulroney and provincial rival Claude Wagner were both seen as potentially able to appeal to Quebec, which had supported the federal Liberals for decades.
Ironically, it had been Mulroney who had played the lead role in recruiting Wagner to the PC party a few years earlier, and the two wound up as rivals for Quebec delegates, most of whom were snared by Wagner, who even blocked Mulroney from becoming a voting delegate.
Mulroney, despite still not being a member of Parliament, ran against him again, and he campaigned more shrewdly than he had done seven years before.
Mulroney had been criticized in 1976 for lacking policy depth and substance.
Mulroney also avoided most of the flash of his earlier campaign, for which he had been criticized.
By the start of 1984, the Tories had taken a substantial lead in opinion polling, as Mulroney began learning the realities of parliamentary life in the House of Commons.
Ironically, Turner had planned to attack Mulroney over the patronage machine that the latter had set up in anticipation of victory.
Near the end of his first term, Mulroney gave a formal apology and a $ 300 million compensation package to the families of the 22, 000 Japanese Canadians who had been divested of their property and interned during World War II.
Critics noted that Mulroney had originally professed opposition to free trade during the 1983 leadership campaign.

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Mulroney supported the United Nations coalition during the 1991 Gulf War and when the UN authorized full use of force in the operation, Canada sent a CF-18 squadron with support personnel and a field hospital to deal with casualties from the ground war as well as a company of The Royal Canadian Regiment to safeguard these ground elements.
The house is notable for its use, in 1987, as the site of meetings on the Meech Lake Accord ( which proposed the overhauling of Canada's constitution ) between the provincial premiers and then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
The only exception to Ant and Dec's English speaking role was that CTV edited the show in Canada to use Canadian Idol host Ben Mulroney instead ( the show on Fox, which used Ant and Dec as hosts, was not simulcast with the CTV feed, to prevent Canadians from calling the American toll-free number to vote for Ryan Malcolm ).
A significant number of Western Canadians had strongly disliked what they perceived as the Mulroney government's pro-Quebec approach and rampant use of patronage.
He sat in the Upper House as a Liberal and served in various positions including Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate and led the Liberals ' filibuster against the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax forcing Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to use an obscure section of the Constitution to appoint extra Senators and ensure passage of the measure.
Crosbie hoped to use his status as the least polarizing personality to attract delegates from either Mulroney or Clark if there had been a disappointing finish by either, and to attract support from minor candidates.

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A Globe and Mail article has suggested Harper may invoke Section 26 of the Constitution, as his predecessor Brian Mulroney did during the GST debate, to have an extra eight senators appointed, for a total of 113, thus granting Tories an absolute majority in the Red Chamber.

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The 1984 federal election resulted in the first Conservative majority government in 26 years — and only the second in 54 years — initially seemed to give Mulroney a very formidable position.
Schreiber transferred $ 500, 000 from " Frankfurt " to an account in Zürich code-named " Britan " on July 26, 1993 and used these funds to make the three cash payments to Mulroney in 1993 and 1994.
Aged 19, she married Brian Mulroney, then a 34-year-old lawyer, on May 26, 1973.
* Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney visited then-President George H. W. Bush during Soviet talks on August 26, 1991

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As Mulroney took the Progressive Conservative Party further in this direction, with policy initiatives in the areas of deregulation, privatization, free-trade, and a consumption tax called the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ), many traditionally-minded Tories became concerned that a political and cultural schism was occurring within the party.
Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney ( 1994 ), pp. 123 – 184.
During this time, he was appointed first, on April 2, 1979, to the Cabinet chaired by Joe Clark ( as Minister of Energy, Mines, and Resources ), and then to that headed by Brian Mulroney ( as Minister of Justice ) on June 30, 1986, the same year he was called to the bar of Ontario.
Julianne Potter ( Julia Roberts ), a 27-year-old New York restaurant critic, receives a call from her longtime friend Michael O ' Neil ( Dermot Mulroney ).
Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada ( 1984-1993 ), leader of the PC Party from 1983 to 1993.
* Family of Brian Mulroney ( born 1939 ), Progressive Conservative Prime Minister of Canada 1984 – 1993
** Mila Mulroney ( b. 1953 ), wife of Brian Mulroney
** Caroline Mulroney ( b. 1974 ), daughter of Brian Mulroney
** Ben Mulroney ( b. 1976 ), son of Brian Mulroney ; Canadian television host
* Kieran Mulroney ( b. 1965 ), American television actor and musician
* Dermot Mulroney ( b. 1963 ), American actor
Milica " Mila " Mulroney ( Serbian Cyrillic: Милица " Мила " Пивнички-Milica " Mila " Pivnički ), ( born July 13, 1953 ) is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney.
Despite initial criticisms of the perceived Disneyfication of the museum, its enormous costs, unique architecture, and unfinished exhibits from many quarters ( including the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney ), the museum soon became a major tourist attraction and was embraced by different political factions as a national symbol of " a pluralistic, multicultural society.
Founded and led by Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig ( best known as publisher of The Canadian Encyclopedia ), the National Party was created in 1992 to oppose the Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement, an increase in continentalism, and the privatization policies of the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.
In 1986, Prime Minister Mulroney appointed Murray to the Cabinet as Leader of the Government in the Senate, and variously as Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations ( until 21 April 1991 ), Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ( June 1987 to September 1988 ), and Acting Minister of Communications ( December 1988 to 30 January 1989 ).
Current members of the board of directors of Astral Media are: Austin Beutel, Paul Bronfman, André Bureau ( chairman ), Jack Cockwell, George Cohon, Paul Godfrey, Stephen Greenberg, Ian Greenberg, Sidney Greenberg, Sidney Horn, Mila Mulroney, Timothy Price, Phyllis Yaffe and Monique Jérôme-Forget.
* Brian Mulroney ( failed out of first year ), former Conservative Prime Minister of Canada
Billy, Doc Scurlock ( Kiefer Sutherland ), Jose Chavez y Chavez ( Lou Diamond Phillips ), Richard M. " Dick " Brewer ( Charlie Sheen ), " Dirty " Steve Stephens ( Dermot Mulroney ), and Charlie Bowdre ( Casey Siemaszko ), consult their lawyer friend Alex McSween ( Terry O ' Quinn ), who manages to get them deputized and given warrants for the arrest of Murphy's murderous henchmen.

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