n e ig ide o i ory rian ulroney

Focused on his critical role in strengthening the bilateral relationship with the United States and shaping the course of world and Canadian history, studies generally emphasize his negotiation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Acid Rain Treaty, and his multiple efforts to engage in constitutional reform. [...] In the 1950s and 1960s, partly in response to the horrors of the Holocaust and due to increasing anti- racist legislation, a climate of minority rights and multiculturalism, and the official rebuke of antisemitism by the Second Vatican Council, overt antisemitism in Canada and the US subsided (Robinson, 2015, p. [...] He has proposed that “new steps must be taken.” These include the federal government’s appointment of a “blue-ribbon panel” who could “examine the growth of Holocaust denial, introduce action in co- operation with the provinces and territories of obligatory education about the Holocaust and the courageous history of Jewish survival, and urge the consideration and implementation of a national actio. [...] Influenced by his studies at StFX, his years in Montréal, and his awareness of history and his own place within it, Prime Minister Mulroney augmented the number of Jews in federal politics, launched the Deschênes Commission, and promoted the autonomy and safety of Israel; since his time in office, he has continued promulgating the case against antisemitism in his writings and in numerous speeches. [...] The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievemen.