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Article: Canada's Brian Mulroney; R. Carney of Puyallup, Wash., asks, 'Whatever happened to...?'.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 14, 1999
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In Canada's 1984 general election, Brian Mulroney led the Conservatives to a landslide victory, winning the largest number of seats (211) in history.
"You won't recognize Canada, 20 years from now," declared the then-most-popular man in the country, as he launched the two major projects of his administration: the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Meech Lake Accord. NAFTA was approved in 1988. But Meech Lake, which addressed Quebec's constitutional status, was never ratified and finally was rejected in a 1992 referendum. The two-term prime minister's popularity was slipping when he left politics in 1993.
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