Brian Mulroney (1984-1993) and George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)
- President Bush and Prime Minister Mulroney's Relationship:
- President George H.W. Bush made his first trip abroad as president to Ottawa:
- https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-time-a-u-s-president-gave-a-memorable-weather-report-1.4930831
- https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/10/world/bush-visit-today-gratifies-ottawa.html
- https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/history-through-our-eyes/history-through-our-eyes-feb-10-1989-mulroney-hosts-bush
- Prime Minister Mulroney met with President Bush at the White House on May 4, 1989, where the two leaders spoke about NATO, free trade, and the environmental issues:
- Canada joins the Organization of American States in 1990 under Prime Minister Mulroney:
- After over a decade of negotiations, Canada and the US, under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President George W.H. Bush, signed the Canada-US Air Quality Agreement (to combat acid rain, among other environmental concerns) on March 13, 1991:
- https://www.osti.gov/biblio/20006042-fortuitous-consequence-domestic-politics-canada-united-states-agreement-air-quality
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1999.tb01972.x
- https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/03/12/acid-rain-treaty-30th-anniversary/
- https://www.c-span.org/video/?17054-1/acid-rain-accords
- https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-president-and-prime-minister-brian-mulroney-canada-the-air-quality-agreement
- https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2021/03/13/on-this-day-in-canadas-political-history-president-bush-sr-visits-ottawa-to-sign-historic-acid-rain-treaty-with-canada/#.YrTRdezMLt0
- Former Prime Minister Mulroney Article on Acid Rain as a Canada-US Case Study:
- Prime Minister Mulroney insisting upon United Nations Security Council authorization in the First Gulf War an off-the-record meeting with President Bush stating that Canada could not support the initiative without it:
- In 1992, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, US President George H.W. Bush, and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sign the North American Free Trade Agreement:
- The three leaders speaking on NAFTA (1992):
- President Bush remarks on the signing of NAFTA:
- Prime Minister Mulroney officially recognizing Ukraine's independence (and being the first country in the Western world to do so) despite US not supporting the decision (1991):
- https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ukrainians-in-canada-recall-1991-independence-declaration.html
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/41036641
- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/canada-ukraines-crucial-ally
- https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/12/02/Canada-recognizes-Ukraine-as-independent-state/9946691650000/
- Prime Minister Brian Mulroney delivers a tribute (eulogy) to his friend President George H. W. Bush at his funeral in 2018:
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