18Th Prime Minister
...that governments should balance budgets; that industry, being the motor of the country, must be kept turning; that initiative should be rewarded; that relations between labour and management should be civil; that research and development are the keys to our national wellbeing; that the essence of federalism, or any system of administration is cooperation and consensus." (Ondaatje, 175)
Brain Mulroney did many things to help our government and to benefit Canada during his nine year term. One thing that he did was pass the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, which help open the door for North American Free Trade Agreement.
Brian Mulroney's background contributed greatly towards his win as Prime Minister. He was on born march 20th 1939, in the small town of Baie Comeau, just three hundred fifty kilometers downstream from Quebec City. The small town depended on its fishing, mining and pulp industry. It was a newly established town, accessible only by boat in the summer, and not accessible at all in the winter. Brian Mulroney's father, Benedict Mulroney and his wife Irene both immigrated here from Ireland. During the Great Depression Benedict found work as an electrician, and was later offered a permanent job within a new pulp mill. Benedict wanted to give his six children more so he also kept his electrician job, so that he could fund his children's education. The Mulroney family spoke English at home, but the children spoke French when with their friends. When Brian was sixteen, he decided to go away to St. Thomas High School, a Catholic boys boarding school in Chatham, New Brunswick. Once out of high school Brian went to St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. While attend their Brian made the decision that he want to become prime minister, and committed himself to the Conservative Party, regardless of the fact that Liberals were...
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