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OTTAWA — Members of Parliament are absent from the House of Commons as Canadians mourn the death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney.
A family spokesman says Mulroney died surrounded by his family in a Palm Beach hospital, where he’d been since a recent fall.Erin O’Toole, a former Conservative MP and party leader, is among the many people who counted Mulroney as a close friend and mentor who “would always be there, in thick and thin.”“There’ll be a lot of people there when the skies are sunny, but on a cloudy day, he would call when a lot of others wouldn’t.
Mulroney, a charismatic and compelling leader with convictions as deep as his trademark languid baritone, led the country as the leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1984 until 1993. He had no fear of trying “controversial things,” said former prime minister Jean Chrétien, including twice trying unsuccessfully to amend the Constitution with the Meech Lake and Charlottetown accords.
“I tried to take that approach in the pandemic,” O’Toole said, recalling some of his cross-partisan efforts at the time. Trudeau said he was “devastated” by Mulroney’s death. He said his first thoughts were for Mulroney’s family, and also for Canada.
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