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applegrove

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5. He was a US branch plant candidate. He'd been in the pocket of big US business

Reply to Spazito (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 16, 2021, 09:53 PM

Sep 2021

for a long time. What he did for the African National Congress and South Africa was his rare own original thinking and was good. I guess big US republicans could not put lipstick on that pig Apartheid. But Mulroney out front for O'Toole while Stephen Harper hides shows that they think canadians see him as more benign. And he probably was.

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Former PM Mulroney got rid of Connaught Labratories that had [View all] applegrove Sep 2021 OP

O'Toole 5 days before the election: applegrove Sep 2021 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Sep 2021 #2

O'Toole evades on the COVID crisis in Alberta: applegrove Sep 2021 #3

Mulroney and his Cons went from a majority government down to... Spazito Sep 2021 #4

He was a US branch plant candidate. He'd been in the pocket of big US business applegrove Sep 2021 #5

Yep, I'll never forget him and Reagan singing... Spazito Sep 2021 #6

Well former prime Minister Chretien did come out and attack O'Toole applegrove Sep 2021 #7