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Former PM Mulroney got rid of Connaught Labratories that had (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2021 OP
O'Toole 5 days before the election: applegrove Sep 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Sep 2021 #2
O'Toole evades on the COVID crisis in Alberta: applegrove Sep 2021 #3
Mulroney and his Cons went from a majority government down to... Spazito Sep 2021 #4
He was a US branch plant candidate. He'd been in the pocket of big US business applegrove Sep 2021 #5
Yep, I'll never forget him and Reagan singing... Spazito Sep 2021 #6
Well former prime Minister Chretien did come out and attack O'Toole applegrove Sep 2021 #7

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Spazito

(49,765 posts)
4. Mulroney and his Cons went from a majority government down to...
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 09:50 PM
Sep 2021

winning only TWO seats in Parliament in 1993 under his leadership. He 'retired' before the election leaving Kim Campbell to inherit his mess.

He was, is and always will be a slimy POS, imo.

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
5. He was a US branch plant candidate. He'd been in the pocket of big US business
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 09:53 PM
Sep 2021

for a long time. What he did for the African National Congress and South Africa was his rare own original thinking and was good. I guess big US republicans could not put lipstick on that pig Apartheid. But Mulroney out front for O'Toole while Stephen Harper hides shows that they think canadians see him as more benign. And he probably was.

Spazito

(49,765 posts)
6. Yep, I'll never forget him and Reagan singing...
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 10:00 PM
Sep 2021

'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling' when Reagan was here at the Shamrock Summit in Quebec City in 1985. I still get nauseous just thinking about it.

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
7. Well former prime Minister Chretien did come out and attack O'Toole
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 11:26 PM
Sep 2021

for Trudeau. He said "unlike O'Toole, I don't speak out of both sides of my mouth". (Chretien has a type of palsy in his face which means he literally can only speak out of one side of his mouth and it has been that way his whole career)

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