Brian Mulroney

In 1992, United States President George H.W. Bush, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. What many are not familiar with is how Texas border cities with Mexico, particularly the borderland of El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, saw a significant increase in gender violence after the signing of NAFTA. Since the early 1990’s to the early 2000’s, Ciudad Juárez became the central stage…

Taking a look at the ever-flowing stream of Canada history, there is a bunch of memorable giants showing up successively, Diefenbaker, William Lyon Mackenzie, John MacDonald and Pierre Trudeau, these names are probably engraved deeply in every Canadian’s brain. However, there is another guy should be memorised, Stephen Harper. Harper is an often-underestimated Canadian politician, and he became his country's first conservative prime minister in 13 years when he led his party to victory in…

Bush (United States), President Carlos Salinas De Gortiari (Mexico), and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada). The first negotiation on the NAFTA agreement was done by President Clinton during his first year as commander in chief. He negotiated the labor and environmental side of the trade agreement. In January 1994, NAFTA is implement in full…

Lincoln MacCauley Alexander has been described by Dr. Daniel Hill as, "a proud chapter in Black Canadian History. A soldier, lawyer, and parliamentarian, he is a man of compassion and generosity who has given us pride and our children hope."(1) The impact that Alexander's journey to becoming the first black Member of Parliament in Canada has had is overwhelming. Lincoln M. Alexander played a significant role is positively influencing black Canadians throughout his life. This is demonstrated by…

Canada’s experience as an international relative has been a brief and recent development compared to many other countries. Due to the heroic efforts done in part by Canadian soldiers in World War One, Canada was gifted the statue of Westminster. This gift signaled the end of British primacy to our foreign policy, and crafted Canada’s foreign strategy that has been known around the world for many decades. Canada’s role in World War two to help aid in the fight of Nazism and Fascism played a…

History has proven that Canada’s current voting system allows for most majority governments to be based on false majorities. In the last half decade, ten national governments have been formed by a party with a majority of MPs. However, it was Brian Mulroney, leader of the Progressive Conservatives, who led his party to power in 1984 with over fifty percent support. He was the only one of the ten that had actually won a majority of votes across the country. The two most recent elections had…

World War 1 (WW1) held the defining years of Canada as a nation and united its people. When studying WW1 the main focus of the people are white Canadians, the other races are not highlighted and brings up the discussion as to what their contributions were to the war. Canada was not always known for its multiculturalism, minority groups were discriminated before, during and after the war; through their contributions came liberation many years later when Canadians learned the minority's will to…

“Fear”, “afraid” and “something new” are words that countless people think of when they hear the word “change”. Numerous people are afraid of change and fear the unknown and when given the opportunity for change they dismiss it. Change, however is one of the most important factors in the development of a country. Furthermore, attempts at change whether they fail or not, are important because they provide as a learning experiences for the country and can help them develop further. The 1980s was a…

film has been entirely recognized as a model of what is best in Canadian cinema workmanship, and it is especially well known in light of the fact that it reacts to, and imitates, a striking picture of Canadian life since the prime ministership of Brian Mulroney (i.e., post-NAFTA, worldwide, urban, and post-mechanical) (Beard, 2002). Some enthusiasts of the film additionally consider it to be an encapsulation and a satisfaction of the capability of another Canadian national well known film…

Canada is known for its diversity and equality but ever since the first Japanese immigrant arrived in 1877, they were welcomed with racism and discrimination. At first, they were known as more "desirable" compared to the Chinese but quickly that changed. The Japanese Canadians were regarded as spies that would sabotage Canada, although there was no evidence to support their biased judgement. The treatment of the Japanese Canadians was truly unethical, they suffered unbearable living conditions…