Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is lying in state Tuesday and Wednesday in Ottawa's Sir John A. Macdonald building across from Parliament Hill.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon are set to offer their condolences to the Mulroney family, who arrived in Ottawa a day earlier to hear tributes to their father in Parliament.The public can pay their respects in Ottawa between 12:30 and 6 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, or 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, and sign a book of condolences.Mulroney’s casket will then make its way to Montreal on Wednesday afternoon, where he will lie in repose at St. Patrick’s Basilica.
“It is not just his booming baritone that will forever echo in this chamber, but his values and his leadership,” Trudeau said. “His principles helped shape this nation and the world for the better.” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also honoured Mulroney in the House of Commons, celebrating his “down to earth spirit” that he said came from his small-town Quebec roots.
“ modest Irish working-class upbringing taught him the value of work, family, neighbourhood, loyalty,” Poilievre said.“For us sitting up in the gallery and hearing everybody speak so positively, probably not what he was used to, but he would have loved it. And we did as well,” said Mark Mulroney, the late politician’s third-born child.
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