03/23/2024
Remembering Brian Mulroney:
After visiting South African in January 2024 and reliving Nelson Mandela's first walks of freedom took place in Capetown, I wanted to honour Brian Mulroney today.
Brian Mulroney's law firm posting this recently,
"At a private event with the firm’s Ottawa associates in 2021, when prompted to share the most enjoyable moments of his career, he recounted his first phone call with Nelson Mandela the day after he was released after 27 years in jail. “Mandela said: When I was in prison…I heard that a young Conservative Prime Minister had come to office in Canada and had decided to make my liberation and the fight against Apartheid the main foreign policy objective of his government. And so I followed you all these years…I’m just calling to tell you that if you wish – and because of the kindness and support of the Canadian people, and [as] you were ready to take on my fights when I couldn’t fight for myself – that I would like to make my first speech as a free man, before a free parliament, in a free country, in Canada…He delivered, I thought, the greatest speech in the Commons since Churchill in 1942 and….it was a glorious moment.”
