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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Mulroney was Reagan's lapdog and did a lot of damage to Canada. He signed NAFTA that primarily benefited the US, advanced privatization of Crown corps, cut business taxes, brought in new restrictions to and cut EI benefits, introduced the GST, cut universal healthcare funding, failed to foresee that offering Quebec "distinct society" status - but not to First Nations, Inuit and Metis people - would cause the failure of the Meech Lake accord, and was implicated in the Airbus affair (by accepting bribes/payments).

He was never the face of the 'good old Conservative party' because it's doubtful they ever were "good".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe, but it wasn't some faith based (im)moral obsessed party then. That was the reformist party (of I recall).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Reform Party of Canada changed its name to the Alliance Party in 2000, then merged with the Cons in 2003.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's right. Thank you for the clarification.