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Canada’s Prime Minister and the American President participated in a historic phone call on this date in 1985. Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney, who were already enjoying a warm relationship, agreed to begin exploratory talks that would lead to the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. The historic and comprehensive deal would ultimately be signed in 1987 and ratified by Canadians at the November 1988 election.
“Before making the announcement,” Mulroney told Reagan, “I hope I can be confident you will be ready to go to Congress soon thereafter, and support publicly this initiative.” Later the same day Prime Minister Mulroney addressed the House of Commons. “I rise to inform the House and the country that I have today spoken to the President of the United States to express Canada’s interest in pursuing a new trade agreement between our two countries,” he said.
After describing the call with President Reagan and his reporting of it to the Commons, Mulroney ended his account the following way”Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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