Brian Mulroney (1984–1993) and Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
- Official Leader of the Opposition, Brian Mulroney, met with President Ronald Reagan on June 21, 1984, prior to becoming Prime Minister in the fall of 1984 proving Reagan’s eagerness to do business with Mulroney:
- Merely days after becoming Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney visited President Ronald Reagan planning to restore good relations with the US (September 25, 1984):
- Prime Minister Mulroney and President Reagan at the Shamrock Summit in 1985 (photograph & singing of “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”):
- Photo of Prime Minister Mulroney and President Reagan as the President arrives in Quebec City for the Shamrock Summit:
- Dialogue of the Shamrock Summit in 1985 (Acid rain, trade, modernization of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, etc):
- Agreement made at the Shamrock Summit on modernizing the Distant Early Warning system:
- President Reagan’s Diary Entry from March 18, 1985, where he says “I have to believe US–Canadian relations have never been better and certainly not at the leader level. Brian M. & I have really established a warm personal friendship.”:
- Prime Minister Mulroney opting out of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) despite being initially interested as it would solidify relations between the PM and President:
- President Reagan’s Diary Entry following Prime Minister Mulroney’s phone call informing him that Canada would not join in the SDI research but that his government approves their efforts:
- President Reagan meeting Prime Minister Mulroney in Ottawa, April 6, 1987:
- Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Canadian Parliament April 6, 1987:
- 1985 publication from the International Journal on the Canada-US Relationship as Mulroney took office:
- President Reagan and Prime Minister Mulroney on the 1988 Arctic Cooperation Agreement, a longstanding policy dispute, which would now require the US to seek out consent before sending ships through the Northwest Passage:
- Settling the Canada-US Free Trade Deal 1987 (a historic moment between Reagan and Mulroney):
- Prime Minister Mulroney and President Reagan & the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement 1988:
- President Reagan signing US-Canada Free Trade Agreement on January 2, 1988 (video of President Reagan on the phone with Prime Minister Mulroney and signing the document):
- In an address to the US Congress Joint Session, Prime Minister Mulroney discusses the acid rain issue saying it does not respect borders and that “What would be said of a generation of North Americans that found a way to explore the stars, but allowed its lakes and forests to languish and die.” (at 16:59) in a plea to take action on the acid rain crisis:
- However, Brian Mulroney and President Reagan did not always agree, they took polarizing stances on the South African Apartheid:
- Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney performs a Eulogy for former President Ronald Reagan:
- February 2011 Interview with Brian Mulroney remembering his friend Ronald Reagan:
- Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, and the Politics of Friendship written by Don E. Abelson (May 2022, Mulroney Papers in Public Policy and Governance No. 8):
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