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Mulroney

Mulroney became the 18th prime minister of Canada on September 17, 1984, after
his party, the Progressive Conservatives won the greatest parliamentary victory
ever in Canadian history. Mulroney was born in 1939, the son of an electrician,
in the paper mill town of Baie Comeau, Quebec. Mulroney attended a very strict
military type all boys’ school until the age of 16 when he entered Saint
Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. There he earned an honor
degree in political science. While at St. FX he was active in on campus
politics. During his first year he became a member of the youth wing of the P.C.
Party of Nova Scotia. Before he graduated he was to become the Prime Minister of
St. FX’s famous mock Parliament, a position that had been held for years by
Liberal students. After graduation he studied law at Dalhousie in Halifax and
later at Laval University in Quebec, from which he graduated in 1962. It was
during these years in Quebec that Mulroney became known as the life of the
party. He frequented most Montreal nightclubs and was quite a lady’s man.
Mulroney also became a slightly more than social drinker. After becoming a
lawyer in 1965 he joined a prestigious law firm known as Cate Ogilvy, later
becoming a partner in that firm. In May 1973 at the age of 34 he married a
beautiful 20 year old Mila Pivnicki, daughter of Yugoslav immigrants. The
Mulroneys would go on to have three children. Mulroney worked energetically for
the Progressive Conservative Party as a young lawyer, serving on the party's
finance and policy committees and on its 1968 and 1972 campaign committees. He
first came into the public eye in 1974 as a member of the Cliche Royal
Commission, which investigated corruption and violence in the Quebec
construction industry. Also involved in this commission was Mulroney’s friend
and future Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard. Although Mulroney had not yet held
public office, he ran for election as Conservative leader at the party's 1976
national convention. He waged a vigorous and expensive campaign but lost to Joe
Clark after being critisized as the Cadillac Cantidate for spending so much
money. Following this failure, Mulroney became very depressed and bitter. This
was a very bleak time in his life. His drinking and his tongue often got him in
trouble. During this period he would often attend social events, get very drunk,
and make an ass of himself. He took the Leadership loss very personally and it
almost ruined him. A...

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