On this date in 1985 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in office only eight months at that point, and President Ronald Reagan held their famous “Shamrock Summit” in Quebec City. So began annual meetings between PM Mulroney and the US President that would continue over the next four years of the Reagan Presidency. Perhaps the most important advance for Canada coming out of the Shamrock Summit was the appointment of two special envoys, Bill Davis for Canada and Drew Lewis for the U.S, to study the issue of acid rain. When the envoys issued their report, calling for increased action in the war on this environmental scourge that was impacting both nations, the long battle to fully engage the Americans on the topic went into high gear, culminating in the acid rain treaty that was signed six years later in Ottawa.
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The Reagans and Mulroneys in Quebec, Canada (Wiki Commons)/caption
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
The Reagans and Mulroneys in Quebec, Canada (Wiki Commons)/caption
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.