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Brian Mulroney: Majority Government

Business Lobby Dept: Twenty-three years ago, on Nov. 21, 1988, Brian Mulroney's Conservatives won their second majority government and signed the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement subsequently the North American Free Trade Agreement , although a clear majority of Canadians -- 52 per cent to 43 per cent -- voted for parties opposed to it, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Instead, the U.S. got everything it wanted, while Canada and Mexico, which sought constraints on U.S. power as well as "secure access," got neither and brian Mulroney pauses at a Vancouver television studio where he was taping CTV's Question Period while campaigning in B.C. in 1984. CANADIAN PRESS ARCHIVES Neither Mulroney, nor his successors, nor the big business lobby that spent $5 million helping him "sell" free trade by branding its opponents "liars," have delivered on their promise to gain Canada "secure access" to the U.S. market. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.