Posted on 02/29/2024 4:51:03 PM PST by Kriggerel
Brian Mulroney — who, as Canada's 18th prime minister, steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs — has died. He was 84.
His daughter Caroline Mulroney shared the news Thursday afternoon on social media.
"On behalf of my mother and our family, it is with great sadness we announce the passing of my father, The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18th Prime Minister. He died peacefully, surrounded by family," she said on X, formerly Twitter.
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Yep agree. RIP
Head and shoulders above Justin Castro. RIP.
Seen by real conservatives in Canada as an event about like if W or Romney passed away — mixed legacies, better than alternatives but not ideal.
Very close to Bush family, and supportive of Trudeau.
Stayed silent on mandates and various other Liberal initiatives after his time in office, when we desperately needed some respected figure to oppose them.
Best years were 1984 to 1989, began to fail 1990-92, resigned and left our conservative movement divided, which continues to this day.
So a glass alf full at best.
A Giant compared to those French guys....
Dubya should have gotten on the Trump train. But anyway, I’ll still vote for him over Gore and Kerry because at least I could fill up my tank with gas. ⛽️
“Mulroney was not the best Prime Minister Canada ever had, but he was certainly better than both Trudeaus put together. By a LONG shot. “
Wrong ! This is why clueless “conservatives” always lose.
Muldoon doubled immigration over Pierre Trudeau levels.
Muldoon introduced the value added tax.
Muldoon rest-started the Quebec separation crisis by trying to give Quebec special status.
Muldoon took cash in a bag from a convicted arms dealer and briber.
Muldoon pushed Canada into NAFTA.
Muldoon pushed the Montreal Accord ban on R12, which was the first of the Greenhouse gas fake crises.
Muldoon did the 1991 gun control law which banned every pistol below 4 inches, by setting the barrel length at 100mm. Also 5 shot magazine limits on semi auto rifles, and 10 on pistols.
A liar, a douche, a crook, and not a conservative !
He was in his prime in the 1980’s free trade and all that Thatcher and Reagan.
Mulroney’s challenge finance Canada’s welfare state he chose the GST a national sales tax.
That would help to kill much of the popularity he enjoyed when he first got elected.
Kept the corporate tax rate attractively low in Canada the Liberals do the same.
correction on the pistol barrel length.
They set the minimum length at 105mm and any pistol below became “Prohibited”. Four inches is 101.6 mm
Muldoon introduced the value added tax.
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I don’t think Canada has ever had a tax called the ‘value added tax’.... What was in place in the era preceding Mulroney was the ‘federal sales tax’ and it was buried deep in the price of everything so that it couldn’t be seen. As I recall, what Mulroney did was that he made it visible and called it the GST (general sales tax).
Bottom line is that he didn’t introduce the tax... he took one that was hidden and made it visible. Is my memory correct on this?
The GST is a value added tax. And it was an entirely new tax that Muldoon created.
People forget that he wanted the rate to be 9 percent. But public pressure lowered it to 7 percent.
Harper later lowered it to 5 percent.
Maybe the Regime will raise it back to 7 (or 9) to commemorate Muldoon’s death.
Because raising taxes for the Liberal welfare state is one of his great legacies.
The GST is a value added tax. And it was an entirely new tax that Muldoon created.
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Sure... but what the GST replaced was the Manufacturers’ Sales Tax and it was 13.5% and put exports at a huge disadvantage. You don’t think that Canadians are better off with the GST (now called the HST)?
http://www.davidmckie.com/twenty-five-years-later-gst-has-increased-competition-for-manufacturers-but-experts-and-industry-say-more-tax-incentives-needed/
You don’t think that Canadians are better off with the GST (now called the HST)?
Absolutely not.
The old manufacturers sales tax only taxed manufactured goods, not everything. And there were so many exemptions and special deals (especially around exported goods) that the actual rate that almost everyone paid was much lower.
If Muldoon was really worried about the economic effect of the MST, he should have just got rid of it instead of cutting income taxes, cutting corporate taxes, and creating the GST.
Allowing the Administrative State to create a new tax is always stupid.
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