{"id":5361,"date":"2014-09-04T08:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2021-04-11T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T22:38:51","slug":"30-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"30 years ago today!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5362 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mulroney_04.jpg\" alt=\"MULRONEY MILA\" width=\"520\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mulroney_04.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mulroney_04-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mulroney_04-450x334.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>30-years ago today, the Progressive Conservatives swept across Canada in a remarkable election that ushered in Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.<\/p>\n<p>This government did a lot of small things wrong, and Mr. Mulroney wasn&#8217;t the most popular of Prime Ministers. However, he and his government got a few big things right: Canada &#8211; US Free Trade leading to a North American agreement, GST helping to eliminate deficit spending, an enviable environmental record, leading the call for the end to apartheid and projecting Canada favourably on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Happy Anniversary Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservatives of 1984!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30-years ago today, the Progressive Conservatives swept across Canada in a remarkable election that ushered in Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. This government did a lot of small things wrong, and Mr. Mulroney wasn&#8217;t the most popular of Prime Ministers. However, he and his government got a few big things right: Canada &#8211; US Free Trade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,30,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13187,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/13187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}