In the September 1984 general election, Brian Mulroney became Canada's 18th prime minister. He was re-elected with a majority government four years later, thereby becoming the first Canadian prime minister in 35 years to win successive majority governments for his Progressive Conservative party. His government introduced the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Canada-U.S. Acid Rain Treaty, among other significant policies. Prime Minister Mulroney also served as co-chairman of the United Nations Summit on Children and his government played leading roles in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa, the creation of Le Sommet de la Francophonie, and the Gulf War. He resigned in June 1993, having served almost nine years as prime minister.
Upon resigning, Mr. Mulroney rejoined the Montreal law firm of Ogilvy Renault as senior partner. He serves as chairman of the Board of Quebecor World Inc. (Montreal); chairman of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold Corporation (Toronto), Independent News and Media, PLC (Dublin) and member of the advisory group of Lion Capital LLP (London), and serves as a director of several corporations and privately held companies around Canada and internationally. Mr. Mulroney is also a trustee of the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation, the International Advisory Council of the École des Hautes études commerciales de Montréal and of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).
Mr. Mulroney has been awarded Canada's highest honour, companion of the Order of Canada, and has also been made a grand officer of the Ordre national du Québec. He has received honorary degrees and awards from universities and governments at home and abroad. In 2003, the Institute for Research on Public Policy placed Mr. Mulroney second in a ranking of the best prime ministers of the previous 50 years. In 2007, Mr. Mulroney’s autobiography, Memoirs, became Canada’s top national bestseller and was described by the Ottawa Citizen as “the finest and most comprehensive memoir of any Prime Minister in Canadian history.”
In 1973, he married Mila Pivnicki and they have four children: Caroline (1974), Benedict (1976), Mark (1979) and Nicolas (1985). They reside in Westmount, Quebec.
Joe Clark is a former Canadian prime minister, foreign minister, and minister of constitutional affairs. He served 25 years as an elected member of the House of Commons of Canada.
Mr. Clark is chairman of Clark Sustainable Resource Developments Ltd, President of Joe Clark and Associates Ltd, vice-chairman of Stratus Royalty Corporation, and a member of the board of BDA (La Fondation Biotechnologie pour le Développement Durable en Afrique) and several NGOs. He is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, the Inter-American Dialogue, the board of trustees of Pearson College, the advisory council of the Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the international advisory board of governors of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He is a professor in the Centre for Developing-Area Studies at McGill University in Montreal.
Mr. Clark is a companion of the Order of Canada, a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence and l’Ordre de la Pleiades, and the first recipient of the Vimy Award. He is married to the Canadian author and lawyer Maureen McTeer, who specializes in law and public policy respecting health, science, and reproductive technologies. They live in Ottawa, Ontario and in Brennan’s Hill, Quebec.
In 1993, Kim Campbell served as the 19th prime minister and was the first female prime minister of Canada. She also held the cabinet portfolios of minister of state for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, minister of Justice and Attorney General, minister of National Defence and minister of Veterans Affairs. She was the first woman to hold the Justice and Defence portfolios and the first woman minister of Defence of a NATO country.
Ms. Campbell served as Canadian consul general in Los Angeles (1996-2000) and taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2001-2004) and is past chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and past president of the International Women's Forum. From 2004-2006 she was secretary general of the Club of Madrid, an organization of former presidents and prime ministers of which she is a founding member.
Today, Kim Campbell chairs the board of international advisors of the Foundation for Effective Governance in Kiev as well as the steering committee for the World Movement for Democracy. She serves on the boards and advisory committees of a number of international organizations including the Club of Madrid, Crisis Group, Salk Institute, Middle Powers Initiative, Arab Democracy Foundation, Forum of Federations, International Center for the Study of Radicalization among others, and also serves on corporate boards as well as does consulting in the field of leadership.
She is married to composer, pianist, and actor Hershey Felder.
Paul Martin was the 21st prime minister of Canada and served as the Member of Parliament for LaSalle-Émard in Montreal, Quebec. He was first elected federally in 1988, was sworn in as finance minister in November 1993 and served in that role until June 2002.
As prime minister, from December 2003 to February 2006, Mr. Martin negotiated a 10-year plan to improve health care and reduce hospital wait times, and signed agreements with all of the provinces to establish a national early learning and child care program. And under his leadership in November 2005, the Canadian government reached an historic consensus with Canada's provinces, territories, First Nations, Métis and Inuit people that would eliminate the gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians in the areas of health, education, housing and economic opportunity. This became known as the Kelowna Accord.
As Canada's finance minister, in September l999, Mr. Martin was named inaugural chair of the G20, an international group of finance ministers and Central Bank governors, composed of the G7 nations and emerging market nations. He is respected internationally in part for his leadership working to forge a new global financial order.
Mr. Martin co-chairs, with Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, a $100 million poverty alleviation fund for the Congo Rainforest Basin. Domestically, he is leading a new initiative, in cooperation with local business communities and departments of education, designed to help Canadian Aboriginal youth complete high school. As co-chair of a high level panel Mr. Martin has just submitted a report on a new strategic vision for the African Development Bank and earlier co-chaired a UN report on private sector investment with the third world.
He married Sheila Ann Cowan in 1965. They have three sons: Paul, Jamie and David and they are proud grandparents of two grandsons, Ethan and Liam, sons of David and his wife Laurence.
