HIST 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Brian Mulroney, National Energy Program, Pierre Trudeau
28 Mar 2017
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Timothy lewis, in the long run we"re all dead: the canadian turn to fiscal restraint (vancouver: ubc press, 2003), chapter 8. Paul martin jr. budget speech, 27 february 1995. http://www. lop. parl. gc. ca/parlinfo/documents/budgets/english/1995-02-27. pdf http://www. thecanadianencyclopedia. ca/en/article/martins-1995-budget/ see context. Paper additional for: historiography here is question, and where the broad field goes on this. Brian mulroney: brian mulroney, 1984 when trudeau retires, john turner now liberal leader, but liberals unpopular: economy not doing great, deficit high, workers wages frozen, Liberals had been in power since early 1960s. Interesting era: no tech boom yet: canada had a lot of debt mulroney made cuts but didn"t solve deficit issue, left over form trudeau era, fear, some driven by public, but by non-elected people in department of. Be nothing greater, nothing more then a liberal democratic government with modest social programs. Pinnacle of human progress: people largely agreed parties like ndp at historic lows.
