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Mulroney was catapulted to prominence in 1974, when he was appointed to a three-member commission investigating corruption in the Quebec construction industry. Thousands of Canadians followed the panel's televised hearings, which seethed with daily testimonies of bribes and beatings. Mulroney and his fellow commission members received several death threats and were given round-the-clock police guards. The panel's 600-page final report led to 24 indictments. Emboldened by that burst of public acclaim, Mulroney decided to run for the Tory party leadership in 1976. He barnstormed the country, flying by private jet and giving...
...workers. Mulroney succeeded admirably, raising widows' pensions and distributing worker bonuses when the company broke the $100 million mark in earnings. Faced with the U.S. auto recession and declining demand for steel, Mulroney in 1982 shut down a company mine at Schefferville in northeastern Quebec. The closing put 285 miners out of work and turned Schefferville into a ghost town of boarded-up stores and FOR SALE signs...
...Progressive Conservatives could easily regain their penchant for bickering over ideological and regional issues. In a parliamentary majority this lopsided, Tory backbenchers may grow restless, or find it safe to dissent from the government line, or even−form cabals to pursue narrow issues. The 58 Tory members from Quebec may prove especially difficult to control. Most of them are parliamentary newcomers with little experience in the customs and folkways of Ottawa−and with much dedication to their province's distinct identity. Mulroney is no doubt aware of the hazards. Diefenbaker, his onetime mentor, won a large majority...
Weary of separatism, Quebec decides to give Canada a chance...
...Quebec has often struck outsiders as a byword for radicals and recalcitrance. The French-speaking province sends its own delegates abroad and calls its legislature the National Assembly. In 1970 a lunatic fringe agitating for Quebec's secession from Canada murdered a Cabinet minister, kidnaped a British diplomat, and set off so many explosions, both verbal and physical, that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, Canada's equivalent of martial law. Even today the nation's most eccentric voice of disaffection, the nonsensical Rhinoceros Party, is based and enjoys its greatest following in Montreal...