Canada

What a story!

I was too young then to understand what he was doing. And I never heard of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. I wish I did.

The committee was stopped in 2007, but I think they should come back. With the wave of anti-abortion wacko laws south of the border, it's only a matter of time until our conservative politicians try to reproduce this here.

Feminism helps everybody. Not just women. We still have a way to go. We need another committee like this.

Oh, this is how I find out he died.

I was a kid when he was prime minister. I just know him from the creation of the GST and his resignation leading to Kim Campbell becoming prime minister.

This article is a fairly poor explanation of why he was absolutely terrible.

The anti-abortion issue was huge. When Morgentaler got the existing law struct down, Mulroney tried to take women's rights thirty years farther back.

Free Trade was potentially beneficial, but it was structured from the outset to help companies at the detriment to citizens and social services. In the end, the US got most of the benefit from it anyway.

Economically, he followed the same trickle-down, privatize everything bullshit that defined Reaganomics and Thatcherism.

He sold us out for 30 pieces of silver, and sanctimoniously lectured us on 'integrity.'

I was expecting this to be worse, honestly. Anti-abortion isn't surprising for the 80's, and international trade is actually something I agree with.

This isn’t a good take, because the Con party has fallen so much from then (due to reform party takeover)

We should celebrate the progressive parts of him to show present day conservatives that those are the good things

If we just dismiss him then they get to pick what is good