HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lucien Bouchard, Ed Broadbent, Robert Bourassa
8 Oct 2014
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The argument: brian mulroney was the most hated of canadian prime ministers (1984- 1993), associated in the public mind with over-slick politics, cozying up to the united. States, the goods and services tax (gst), and failed efforts to reform the constitution. But he was the first leader since john a macdonald to take the conservatives to two straight majority governments. He made an honest effort to deal with the problems the country faced. He became a respected global figure with an internationalist foreign policy that included a campaign against south african apartheid and the dispatch of unprecedented numbers of canadian peacekeepers all over the globe. Canadians prefer leaders who tread lightly and do next to nothing. Elections: 1984, 211 seats of 282; 1988, 169 of 295; 1993, 2 of 295; bloc, reform. Image: the law of the predecessor; gucci; patronage; the u. s. satellite; stevie. Cameron"s on the take, and william kaplan"s books.
