It is a great pleasure today to send out birthday greetings to my old boss, Brian Mulroney, who is turning 82. One of most significant 20th Century Prime Ministers, Mr. Mulroney served as PM between 1984 and 1993, becoming the only Conservative to win back-to-back majority mandates from Canadians since Sir John A. Macdonald himself.
Mr. Mulroney also made history by successfully negotiating the Free Trade Agreement with the Americans (later bringing Mexico on board, thus expanding the deal to NAFTA), led the Commonwealth’s battle against South African apartheid, placed the environment at the head of his government’s priorities (he was later named Canada’s Greenest-ever Prime Ministers) and reformed the Canadian tax system, most notably ushering in the GST.
Happy birthday Mr. Mulroney.
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Former Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney spoke to U of T's Rotman School of Management on the Canada/US Free Trade Agreement. Jim Coyle is working on a weekend feature on Mulroney and his travelling road show as he schmoozes professionally.
13-02-12 Richard Lautens/Toronto Star/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.
Former Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney spoke to U of T's Rotman School of Management on the Canada/US Free Trade Agreement. Jim Coyle is working on a weekend feature on Mulroney and his travelling road show as he schmoozes professionally.13-02-12 Richard Lautens/Toronto Star/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.