What contributions did Prime Minister Brian Mulroney give to Canada?

Question

Brian Mulroney was the Canadian Prime Minister for nine years from 1984-1993. We are studying his policies and era in Canadian history class and we are supposed to do a paper on his contributions.

Does anyone here know?

Answer 1

I am having difficulty with the term "contributions" in your question. But his major infamous deeds were NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement, and GST - (National) Goods and Services Tax.

NAFTA – was probably a good idea, but unpopular. When the US is our major trading partner and you watch how badly they treat Canada and break the trade agreement, you have to wonder how much worse it would be if there was no agreement. You can look into the billions they stole from us in Softwood Lumber. Brian and Ronald was the peak of US/Canada relations as far as PM to President chemistry.

GST – was also a good idea but unpopular. It was a replacement tax, not new taxes. The tax that it replaced was hidden, it was built into some prices and you only knew the final price not how much was tax. Turns out Canadians preferred it that way – not knowing. The old tax was also a tax on made in Canada goods sold in Canada. So domestic made products were taxed, and foreign goods were tax free and could appear to be cheaper in price. The GST was to get rid of penalizing our own goods and spread it out over a wider range of things so it wasn’t as high.

One of the last things he did was create Nunavut Territory. But I missed a documentary on that last night that was saying it wasn’t all beneficial either.

Edit: I just read where someone said his only contribution to us was Ben Mulroney. So funny, and yet it might be true.

Answer 2

nothing i can think of. He sold us out to the US big time with NAFTA, took bribes, and then sued the canadian people when accused of it, stealing millions of dollars more in the settlement. It has since been proven that he DID take the alleged bribes, but he has never returned the money.

Since leaving power he has spent his life in the States, where he notably gave a speech at Reagan's funeral saying how horrible Canadians are.

He is more of a blight on Canada than any sort of "contributer"