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.

After ultimately passing his bar exams, Mulroney was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1965, and became a labour lawyer, which was then a new and exciting field of law in Quebec.

Mulroney, then 28, would soon become a chief adviser to the new leader in Quebec.

Two months later, Mulroney entered Parliament as the MP for Central Nova in Nova Scotia, winning a by-election in what was then considered a safe Tory seat after Elmer MacKay stood down in his favour.

Mulroney sent a letter of condolence to then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which sparked an uproar in Canada since he did not call families of the actual victims to offer condolences.

As other Red Tory candidates were eliminated during the first four ballots, Clark gradually overtook Mulroney and then Wagner to emerge as the victor on the fourth ballot, by 1, 187 votes to 1, 122.

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.

In 1986, at age 28, he was appointed to the Cabinet of then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Minister of State for Youth.

The new riding of Timmins — Chapleau was represented by Roy's Liberal successor Ray Chénier from 1979 to 1984 and then Aurèle Gervais, a former mayor of Iroquois Falls, who was swept in to office as a PC in the Mulroney landslide of September 1984.

The Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) () is a multi-level value added tax introduced in Canada on January 1, 1991, by then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his finance minister Michael Wilson.

Aged 19, she married Brian Mulroney, then a 34-year-old lawyer, on May 26, 1973.

* Prime Minister: Pierre Trudeau then John Turner then Brian Mulroney

* Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney then Kim Campbell then Jean Chrétien

He served as an adviser to Mulroney while he was Prime Minister of Canada, and was appointed to the Board of Air Canada, then a Crown Corporation.

Tory later served as Tour Director and Campaign Chairman to then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and managed the 1993 federal election campaign of Mulroney's successor, Kim Campbell.

From 1983 to 1984, the riding's then Member of Parliament, Brian Mulroney, was Leader of the Opposition.

In 1993, then prime minister Brian Mulroney made an offer of individual medallions, a museum wing, and other collective measures involving several other redress-seeking communities.

In the mid-1980s, a new Conservative federal government under Brian Mulroney pledged that then Crown corporation Petro-Canada ( now part of Suncor Energy ) would be a lead player in creating a commercially viable offshore development on the Hibernia field.

The Canadian Multiculturalism Act was then enacted by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Schreiber was a key figure in Canada's Airbus affair, in which he was alleged to have arranged secret commissions to be paid to Brian Mulroney and lobbyist Frank Moores in exchange for then Crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of Airbus jets.

The plan was that Brian Mulroney would then appear before the Ethics Committee in the week following Schreiber's testimony.

Elmer MacKay was then re-elected to Parliament in the 1984 Mulroney majority victory, and served in Cabinet as Solicitor General, Minister of National Revenue, and Minister of Public Works, as well as heading the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency.

As an example of the antipathy toward Mulroney, his former riding fell to the Bloc by a lopsided margin ; the Tory candidate finished a distant third, with only 6, 800 votes — just a few votes shy of losing his electoral deposit.

Clark's vote numbers fell in the second ballot, with Mulroney pulling closer.

After placing second on the first ballot, Mulroney fell behind Clark on the second ballot as Red Tory delegates began to coalesce behind Clark.

** Conservatives: Former Mulroney cabinet minister John Crosbie announces he is " seriously considering " running in the Avalon riding in Newfoundland.

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.

Mulroney secured a plum temporary appointment in Ottawa during the summer of 1962, as the executive assistant to Alvin Hamilton, minister of agriculture.

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.

Mulroney thus became the only Conservative to lead his party to two consecutive majority governments in peacetime during the 20th century.

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.

Johnston had once reported directly to Mulroney during his term as prime minister.

In June 2004, Mulroney presented a eulogy for former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during the latter's state funeral.

Mulroney appears during an interview, speaking about his memoirs.

Bush and Brian Mulroney during the NAFTA Initialing Ceremony in Austin, Texas

There is a monument to him in his native Carlingford, County Louth, unveiled during a visit in 1991 by former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney and Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

A contemporary of Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister.

On September 22, 1988, when the Mulroney government apologized for the internment, Broadbent brought up Yamaoka's experiences during his remarks in the House of Commons.

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.

It remained a federal crown corporation until 1986 when, having experienced record losses during its development of the Challenger business jet, the Mulroney government sold it to Bombardier Inc.

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!

Such claims were common during his bids for PC leader, when he was accused being an opportunist who tried to practise entryism, and take over the Progressive Conservative Party and steer it sharply to the left and away from the conservatism of Brian Mulroney and Margaret Thatcher.

This became most apparent during the Sinclair Stevens conflict-of-interest scandal, in which Mulroney was out of Parliament for two weeks while the opposition barraged Nielsen with questions.

Years afterward, Sheila Copps would remark that the sacking of Nielsen made Mulroney " look decisive ", when pointing out the importance of a deputy prime minister in protecting the prime minister from political damage during question period.

Ben Mulroney, host of TV shows Canadian Idol and eTalk Daily and the son of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, parodies himself during the third season episode " Dog River Vice ".

The PCs ' victory was aided in large part by a massive breakthrough in Quebec, winning 58 seats as compared to the one Quebec seat they won in 1980 ; Mulroney successfully campaigned in Quebec on a message that Pierre Trudeau's Liberals had " sold out " the province during the process of patriating the Canadian constitution in 1982, due to the fact that Quebec never formally signed on to the new constitution.