Word: bri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seats in the 282-member Parliament, up from 103 seats in the 1980 election. The Conservative Party won a plurality of popular votes in all of Canada's ten provinces, making it a truly national party for the first time in 20 years. Drowned in cheers of "Brian! Bri-an!" Mulroney, 45, thanked the 3,000 supporters gathered at an indoor hockey rink in his Quebec home town of Baie Comeau. Said the Prime Minister-elect: "Canada has responded to a call to national unity...