How can you tell #brianMulroney was a spineless sellout who (like his buddy #reagan) severed the last shackles that controlled corporations, gutted the national infrastructure, public housing, public everything? Just look at this picture.
He was an unrepentant greedy, murderous, scum sucking vomit vacuum who profited from suffering and death in his companies mines.
My first political memory was the election of #BrianMulroney in 1984. I won't claim to have followed #CanPol that closely for the next few years, but I remember in 1988, in elementary school, that we all kept journals of where the leaders were and what they were promising. That was the Free Trade election, and as I recall I decided that free trade would be good for Canada. (No, I didn't really know anything about economics at the time.)
And even later on I tended to support the Mulroney government -- let me tell you, it was lonely in Northern BC in the 1990s, backing the #MeechLakeAccord and the #CharlottetownAccord . And I defended the GST as a replacement for the Manufacturers' Sales Tax.
Mr. Mulroney swung big, sometimes hitting a home run, sometimes striking out. But I do think most of his initiatives were good for Canada and the world.
On Friday, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa issued a statement giving condolences to Canada on behalf of his nation, saying Mulroney was a “leader that holds a special place in South Africa’s history.”