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Perhaps it is time for some clarity on the late Brian Mulroney’s harsh legacy. Before becoming prime minister in 1983, “labour lawyer” Mulroney was president of the Iron Ore Company of Canada, and after arranging severance for redundant Schefferville, Que., employees, he quietly dismissed the company’s Labrador workers with nothing. He subsequently co-operated with the corporate elite to gradually erode Canada’s social democratic character, thus creating an increasingly individualistic nation.
As well, his unreported cash payments from German-Canadian figure Karlheinz Schreiber and Mulroney’s subsequent wrist slap from the Canada Revenue Agency undermined public faith in Canada’s legal and taxation systems. The infamous Somalia scandal would not have occurred if Mulroney had resisted pressure from then-U.S. president George H.W. Bush, and not sent the elite—but ill-suited—Airborne Regiment on what later became a disastrous peacekeeping mission.
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