Business leaders remember Mulroney's 'critically important' economic impact
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Colleagues of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who since shifted to the business world are remembering the “critically important” impact he had on the Canadian economy.
A spokesperson for Caroline Mulroney, Brian’s daughter, said Brian was hospitalized after a fall at his home in Pam Beach, Fla. He passed away Thursday evening, surrounded by his wife Mila and four kids: Caroline, Ben, Mark and Nicolas.
John Manley, a former finance minister and former deputy prime minister who is now chair of Jefferies Securities and a senior advisor at Bennett Jones, specifically highlighted Mulroney’s work in the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the Government Sales Tax (GST).
“These are critically important and long-lasting structural changes that he took on a great political risk for the benefit to Canada,” Manley told BNN Bloomberg in a television interview on Friday.
