Brian Mulroney 'wanted big things for the country,' former chief of staff says

Brian Mulroney 'wanted big things for the country,' former chief of staff says | Power & Politics

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5 ай бұрын

Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18th prime minister who steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs, has died at 84. Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay and Mulroney's former chief of staff David McLaughlin react to the news of his passing.
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@dkennedy7502 5 ай бұрын

Brian Mulroney did nothing did nothing for the average working Canada.

@TheInsaneupsdriver 5 ай бұрын

worse then that. he sold us out and killed the middle class with Thatchers trickle down economics.

@solid9999fine 5 ай бұрын

We don't forget the things that he did to start the beginning of the end of Canada. Thief.

@TheInsaneupsdriver 5 ай бұрын

actually started under Pierre Trudeau when they illegally stopped using the bank of Canada costing us around 2.3 trillion in illegal interest payments over the last 50 years, sine 74.

@johndefalque5061 5 ай бұрын

Yeah big corruption and payoffs!

@gerrigleason4877 4 ай бұрын

The only thing that man wanted big was huge payoff to him. It always amazes me when a politician dies the media praises them no matter the corruption he was involved with

@johndefalque5061 4 ай бұрын

He sold off all our factories to China-I can't forget that.Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney brought us austerity-robbed Gen X.@@gerrigleason4877

@gerrigleason4877 2 ай бұрын

No, he wanted big things for himself. What a criminal. Mr. bribe taker himself!!

@Whiskey.T.Foxtrot 5 ай бұрын

Worst PM in Canadian history. The damage he did was incalculable. 35 years later I still hate him with a passion for what he did to me, my family, and the country.

@tanveernaeem1157 5 ай бұрын

The ly'n Brian...Rammed NAFTA on Canadians for kickbacks and personal gains without mandate from the people. He surely will be remembered but for the wrong reasons.

@ccrider3435 5 ай бұрын

Brown bags and Free Trade for me.. but not for thee.

@Liberal_From_Prairies689 5 ай бұрын

Is that why he cut funding and most programs that were established to help low income and aboriginal Canadians, even seniors? Is that why he cut over $64M in funding to CBC? Is that why he privatized and sold Canada's vaccine lab to a French company? Have people forgotten all the programs he cut that hurt Canadians?

@captainzappbrannagan 5 ай бұрын

He made tough choices but correct ones. YOu fail to show the whole scope of these issues and why small sighted people fail and remain tribal.

@patrickgamblin3734 5 ай бұрын

@@captainzappbrannagan Care to give us some context? Just so I have somewhere to start reading.

@captainzappbrannagan 5 ай бұрын

One of the first and most effective advocate for climate responsibility and practice changes getting rid of acid rain, god mode nafta deal for Canada, consolidated taxes (though unpopular obviously still needed as it was only expanded, tremendous new trade deals with foreign countries, influential and respected as a PM of Canada worldwide, UN peacekeeping force funded properly and living up to NATO standards. Dedicated the rest of his life post PM to helping pm's representing Canada in best way possible, list goes on and on.@@patrickgamblin3734

@captainzappbrannagan 5 ай бұрын

He helped stop acid rain climate issues, did god mode nafta deal, strongly pushed end to apartheid, had respect of worldwide leaders, made sure military peacekeeping missions visible and funded. And most importantly kept contributing to helping pm's and politicians for the rest of his days.@@patrickgamblin3734

@Geekeric 5 ай бұрын

I fondly remember living on Kraft dinner while Brian was PM and his kids went to private school. He was right about free trade but otherwise a miserable PM who left his party with only 2 seats in parliament and then they ceased to exist. A fine legacy.

@traviscutler9912 5 ай бұрын

He was a traitor to this country and sold us out with NAFTA which caused the literal destruction of the Canadian middle class, endless layoffs and I'm sure many deaths of despair and suicide as a result. He destroyed the future for us, our children, our grandchildren, and the great promise that was Canada. Unforgivable.

@tremsls 5 ай бұрын

He was just another criminal politician.

@MichaelBellefontaine 5 ай бұрын

I wonder how long the line up is going to be to piss on his grave?

@mbg4681 5 ай бұрын

Pass the asparagus.

@waynemerlo7448 5 ай бұрын

Voters have short memories and Politicians count on it.

@chedabu 5 ай бұрын

Terrible prime minister. Should have ended in jail.

@Crotone79 5 ай бұрын

Good riddance!!!!

@rok1475 5 ай бұрын

It happened on leap day so the memories of him will only be dredged every 4 years.

@JD-gv4uz 5 ай бұрын

How much cash was in the brown bag

@dkennedy7502 5 ай бұрын

$100,000 three times

@Dan-nt2yb 5 ай бұрын

As a 61-year old I’m STILL trying to forget the 80s nightmare of Regan, Thatcher and Mulroney. Terrible times…terrible politics.👎🏾

@TomVCunningham 5 ай бұрын

The terrible trio!

@DaveedBoowie 5 ай бұрын

They didn't call him Reagan's shoe shine boy for nothing!

@ccrider3435 5 ай бұрын

I am sorry to remind you: 'They're Back!"

@vmitchinson 5 ай бұрын

He wanted big things like the biggest debt ever.

@Liberal_From_Prairies689 5 ай бұрын

Maybe you should check your facts. He actually cut funding to crucial programs low income Canadians needed. He introduced austerity measures that left low income Canadians reeling. A trademark of conservative Prime Ministers throughout the past century and such funding cuts and not giving a damn about low income people would continue if Poilievre becomes prime minister.

@TheInsaneupsdriver 5 ай бұрын

@@Liberal_From_Prairies6892nd worst debt Harper is number one, Trudeau 3rd, but only 3rd because he inherited Harper's record debt on his last illegal year in office. and i say illegal cause he committed election fraud and plied guilty to it in 2012. I got one of their 65000 illegal robocalls in the 2011 election myself so i KNOW it happened. trying to send non con voters to the wrong voting locations saying they were elections Canada using their own non con voter lists. then they did it again in 2015 only this time they used the Proud boys of whom they helped create in 2013.

@ericjeffries4576 5 ай бұрын

I was always puzzled how someone who had no memory of $$$ in envelopes could be on corporate boards!! Was libelled by a legal letter to the Swiss about that money and got $$$ from taxpayers, ;leaked by whom? But he championed Mandela. ? Sociopath???

@DaveedBoowie 5 ай бұрын

I wasn't puzzled...he was a crook and a liar, simple.

@alexiapucci4482 5 ай бұрын

This Liberal/NDP collation gov bulldozed Brians dreams.

@vt1340 5 ай бұрын

I won't mourn his passing, nor denigrate his life. His effect on Canada was Great, but not necessarily for the better. He was after all, a proponent of Reaganomics, with great love of the "American" dream.

@dissinfo6358 5 ай бұрын

Is that the dream you have to be asleep to believe?

@harrycooper5231 5 ай бұрын

Good riddance! He was a criminal and grifter, hated universally, who resigned in disgrace with an 11% approval rating. Read "On the Take" if you have any doubts.

@carletonrutherford1799 5 ай бұрын

He was the prototypical conservative Prime Minister. He cared about the rich, and corporations, but didn't give a damn about regular working people. How did NAFTA work out for Canada?

@TomVCunningham 5 ай бұрын

Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney were the trifecta of evil as far as I'm concerned.

@Liberal_From_Prairies689 5 ай бұрын

Actually he didn't establish NAFTA.

@jaygray7102 5 ай бұрын

Pretty good, not perfect but nothing ever is. All the people won't be satisfied all the time. He came with scandals, just like all leaders, but at least he was polite. We don't get that with today's conservatives, we get donald trump.

@GWFHegel-ms7gz 5 ай бұрын

@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 Lmfao, stop. He established the Free Trade Agreement with the US, which soon thereafter grew into NAFTA

@GolfYourself 5 ай бұрын

@@jaygray7102 Trump is a Republican, which is probably going to fix America pretty soon.

@rickboer7715 4 ай бұрын

Outragious interest rates over 21%

@pjimmbojimmbo1990 5 ай бұрын

YEE HA!!!! GREAT RIDDANCE!!!!

@vmitchinson 5 ай бұрын

The election after he resigned managed to elect two MPs, that was two too many.

@polarnights7005 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad it didn't happen.

@charlieharper981 5 ай бұрын

300k cash in paper bags was not enough for the crook. He wanted more cash pay outs.

@jaygray7102 5 ай бұрын

Conservatives do nothing but take and waste money on themselves, over $750 million just for pictures of themselves under Harper and they have the nerve to complain about Trudeau selfies. They spent that while they cut back on essential services, even taking sick new mothers and infants to court to stop them from getting benefits. PP has the nerve to come out on Women's Day to let everyone know how he "thinks" about women - he failed to mention he thinks about how he's going to screw them over

@LOZi175 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the GST, Brian!!! 🙄

@tubedude4859 5 ай бұрын

Is it true in honor of Mulroneys passing the GST will be eliminated on all future sales of fog horns ?

@mikeboone390 5 ай бұрын

Thats Rich

@GOODJMR 5 ай бұрын

NAFTA opened borders to drug cartels, destroyed middle-class families & started or increased the opioid epidemic. RIP Mulroney.

@user-om9dp4qd8n 5 ай бұрын

How about Trudeau's legacy?

@user-hs4tq7hv1z 5 ай бұрын

What prison ?

@chuckeles2549 5 ай бұрын

Condolences to his family. He wasn't my favorite PM, the free trade agreement gave away our country to the Americans. As I also remember, economically it was challenging times for workers.

@jaygray7102 5 ай бұрын

Also not my fav, but at least he was polite Conservatives always create challenging times for workers. That's because they make a point of keeping wages low, unions mean nothing to them, they'll order them back to work - this helps subsidize the huge tax cuts they give millionaires

@dsbarclayeng1 5 ай бұрын

I didn't agree with everything Mulroney did, but At Least - he tried to do some things for Canada. Trudeau does absolutely Nothing at all.

@bertpeters8048 5 ай бұрын

this guy was no different than justin turdo. Never ever did we have a good pm. Waiting for Pier to step in and change that

@Octasia1 5 ай бұрын

Same animal different stripes you haven’t figured that out yet? SMH

@TheInsaneupsdriver 5 ай бұрын

LOL Pierre is already worse like when he took 2.6 billion from our pensions in 2015 to hide all the corporate handouts on the highest deficit in Canadian history as finance minister on Harper's order. both parties suck and if you think the cons are going to fix anything get your head examined. they created this mess, but the Libs do nothing to fix it and usually make it worse by not doing so. Trudeau isn't any worse then any other conservative since the 70s. 74 to be precise when his father on the advice of both parties stopped following the bank of Canada act selling us out to private banks costing us around 2.3 trillion in illegal interest for the last 50 years. BOTH PARTIES ARE GUILTY!

@pauldonovan9713 5 ай бұрын

He had common decency... something that is lacking in the current conservative leader.

@TheInsaneupsdriver 5 ай бұрын

the bringer of GST NAFTA and free trade, and the big one trickle down economics, Decency? LOL maybe he was hiding it with the money in the brown paper bags, $300,000 if i remember.

@GWFHegel-ms7gz 5 ай бұрын

I disagree with 95% of what Mulroney did. But the amount of disrespectful comments are entirely unneeded. Just let the man's family cope in silence.

@rok1475 5 ай бұрын

A disrespectful comment is the only thing available to people he hurt.

@GWFHegel-ms7gz 5 ай бұрын

@@rok1475 No, it isn't. They can resist and transform society, and undo the policies he implemented.

@TheInsaneupsdriver 5 ай бұрын

@@GWFHegel-ms7gzonly way that'll happen is if people stop voting con or liberal.

@rok1475 5 ай бұрын

@@GWFHegel-ms7gz You can’t undo pain and suffering that resulted from his actions.

@GWFHegel-ms7gz 5 ай бұрын

@@rok1475 I agree. But that's not what you said initially.

@test40323 5 ай бұрын

Condolences to families and friends. I will remember Mulroney's achievements and doing what's necessary for Canada.

@rok1475 5 ай бұрын

He did what HE thought was necessary for people close to him, completely ignoring the opinion of the voting public, which rewarded his efforts with 2 seats in parliament for his party.

@kouroshkhorshid5294 5 ай бұрын

RIP to the Great PM

@captainzappbrannagan 5 ай бұрын

He was a pioneer and excellent rep for Canada. His many policies and initiatives created by his gov't live on. RIP

@gutsygutman2475 5 ай бұрын

OK my child, you were probably not even around in the 80's 90's. After NAFTA was forced through so many companies just packed up and went south anyways. That was the plan all along to sell us out to the Americans for personal kickbacks. Many people lost their jobs including my father and mother. You have no idea.