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!

The appointment, and those of twenty others that year made by the Governor General on the advice of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, remains unusual as, traditionally, being made a privy councillor is an act reserved for members of Cabinet, Chief Justices of Canada, and certain others who require access to classified documents.

Though Prime Minister Brian Mulroney opposed the legislation, he eventually recommended Waters for appointment to the Senate.

Brian Mulroney recommended for appointment several new senators, and used an emergency power in the Constitution Act, 1867 that allowed him to recommend for appointment eight new Senators.

Another defining event for western conservatives was when Mulroney accepted the results of an unofficial Senate " election " held in Alberta, which resulted in the appointment of a Reformer, Stanley Waters, to the Senate.

Nixon resigned from the legislature on July 31, 1991, accepting a federal appointment from the Mulroney government to conduct a review of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( Nixon later served as chair of this crown corporation from 1994 to 2001 ).

In the 1980s, he was a strategist for the federal Tories led by Brian Mulroney who recommended him to Governor General Jeanne Sauvé for appointment to the Senate in 1986.

Eugene Whelan was appointed as Canadian ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, prompting Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leader Brian Mulroney to promise to rescind the appointment if he became Prime Minister.

He ran again in the 1984 election but, despite the Conservative victory that year, was passed over for a cabinet appointment by Brian Mulroney.

Mulroney canceled the appointment shortly after he was elected and appointed Liberal former Speaker of the House Lloyd Francis in Mackasey's place.

When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as prime minister in June 1993, she retained Dick as Supply and Services minister, while adding an appointment as Minister of Public Works.

After being chairman of the Brian Mulroney transition committee in 1983, he was the first appointment made by Mulroney to the Senate in 1984, and served, representing the senatorial division of Halifax, Nova Scotia, until his mandatory retirement in 1998.

** U. S. President Bush meets Canadian prime minister Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991.

Mulroney became a youth delegate and attended the 1956 leadership convention in Ottawa.

This led Mulroney to respond at the annual Press Gallery Dinner, which is noted for comedic moments, in Ottawa, October 22, 2005.

Mulroney was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario.

The Ottawa edition of Frank received notoriety in 1991 when the magazine ran a satirical advertisement for a contest inviting young Tories to " Deflower Caroline Mulroney.

* February 10: President of the United States George H. W. Bush Prime Minister Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991.

At times, prime ministers ' spouses have used their public status to promote charitable causes ; Mila Mulroney was a spokesperson for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and other children's charities, Aline Chrétien was an active campaigner for literacy programs, and Laureen Harper is known for her support of animal welfare organizations such as the Ottawa Humane Society.

After his election defeat in 1987, Mockler worked as an organizer for the federal Progressive Conservatives in the 1988 federal election and worked for the Brian Mulroney administration in Ottawa until its dying days in 1993.

Asylum, his most recent novel, was published in 2008 and is set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years.

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 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.

Mulroney neglected his studies, then fell seriously ill during the winter term, was hospitalized, and, despite getting extensions for several courses because of his illness, flunked out of Dalhousie his first year.

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.

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.

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.

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.