Presentation about significant events happening during 1986 to 1995 in Canadian history for Grade 10 History

1. 1986to1995In Canadian History
The Post War Decades
JUNE 2014
SHARON SAVANNAH FELIX CHRIS MERLYN
CHC2DG MR. MACKINLAY

2. 1985
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
THESHAMROCK SUMMIT
- Prime Minister BrainMulroney and President Ronald Reagan
- Relations between the two governments
- Free trade
- Military Defence Programs
- “When IrishEyes Are Smiling”

3. 1986
TRIVIA- May 2nd: Expo ‘86 Vancouver
- The Canadian dollar hit an all-time low of 70.2¢ U.S. on
international money markets, January 31
- October 6th: United Nations award for shelteringworld refugees
- Canadian JohnPolanyi sharedthe Nobel Prize for Chemistry
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
CHALLENGINGTHEAPARTHEID
- Total sanctions against South Africa due to the apartheid
(previous warnings in September 1985)
- BrianMulroney seen as a world leader
- By the end of the 1980stheUS andGreat Britain hadagreed
to the sanctions

4. 1986
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
caribcan
- Canadian government programme
- Promote trade, investment, and provide industrial
cooperation
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Goingagainstreagan
- Canada accepts refugees fromNicaragua, El Salvador,
and Guatemala
- Reagan Doctrine, conflicts risenfromthe Cold War

5. 1987 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
GoingagainstreaganBrianmulroney
POLITICIANS
Highlights asPrime Minister
- Canada-U.S.Free Trade Agreement (1988)
- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992)
- Canada MulticulturalismAct(1988)
- Canadian participation in Gulf War(1991)
- Goods and ServiceTax (1991)
- NunavutSettlementAgreement (1993)
- ElectedLeader of the Progressive Conservative Partyin 1983
- First Conservative leader from Québec
- MeechLakeAccord (1987), Charlottetown Accord (1992) were
defeated
- 1993: resigned and returned to Montrealto practice law

6. 1987
GoingagainstreaganMEECH LAKE ACCORDINTERNAL POLITICS
- Bring Quebecintothe Constitution
- All Premiersagreed, butAccord had to be passed in Legislature
within 3 years
- Newfoundland changeofpremiers, didn’tsupport
- Manitoba ElijahHarperdelayed pastexpirydate
- Mixed reviews
ELIJAHHARPERMINORITY AND NATIVECANADIAN LEADERS
- First AboriginalMember of Legislative Assembly in Manitoba
- Served as Ministerof Northern Affairs
- Refused to accept the constitutional amendment of Meech Lake
- Harper also opposed CharlottetownAccordin 1992

7. 1987
Goingagainstreagan
INTERNAL POLITICS
GEORGESERASMUSMINORITY AND NATIVECANADIAN LEADERS
Reformparty INTERNAL POLITICS
BREAKTHROUGHS, DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS
NEWTSUIT
- National Chiefof the AssemblyofFirst Nations
- Appointed tothe OrderofCanada asa memberin 1987
- Presidentofthe DeneNation
- Was National ChiefofAFN during theOka Crisis
- atmosphericdiving suitdesigned andoriginallybuiltbyPhil Nuytten
- ocean drillingrigs,pipelines, salvagejobs, photographicsurveys
- Reform Partyin the west, Slogan was“the West wantsin”,
believed Ottawa ignored needsofWestern Provinces

8. 1988
TRIVIA
- The WinterOlympicsin Calgary opened on February 13
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS
CUFTA- Canada and Free trade agreement
- Eliminate tariffs
- Solution to settle disputes
- Investment and Energy
- Agriculture
- Liberal, NDP and Labour unions against it

9. 1988
TRIVIA
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS
ARCTIC COOPERATION
SPORTSFIGURES
BENJOHNSON
- 1984:two time medalist for sprinting
- World record of 9.79seconds for 100m
- Tested positive for drug use
- Questioned drug use in sports
- Agreement allowing Icebreakers into CanadianArctic
- ‘Undertaken with the consent of the Government of
Canada’

10. 1989
- Develops anti-virusmedication
- Important component in HIV/AIDS treatment
BREAKTHROUGHS, DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS
LAMIVUDINE
- Worked on child welfare and aboriginalSelf-governance
projects
- First representativeof Yukon in House of Commons
- Voted against Meech Lake Accord
- First female leader of Federal Political Party
PROMINENT WOMEN
AUDREYMCLAUGHLIN

11. 1989
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS
APEC
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
THETIANAMENSQUAREMASSACRE
- Student protest for pro-democracy government
- Chinese government dispatches military, results in thousands of deaths
- Mulroney canceled minor trade agreements
- Relationship withChina remains the same
- Canadabecomes foundingmember of APEC
- Focuses on business in Asia-Pacific region
- Working to raise livingstandards

12. 1989
BREAKTHROUGHS, DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS
ACTAR911
MONTREALMASSACRE
PUBLIC POLICIES
- Legally armedstudent shoots 28 people
- Raises awareness of violence against womenand child welfare
- Cause attributed to violence in media, poverty, abuse
- Gun laws become stricter
- FirstActar 911, CPR Mannequin
- Helpsteach basicsof CPR
- DianneCroteau: StudioInnova
trivia
- Canadian one-dollar bills were replacedwith the new one-dollar coin,
popularly namedthe 'Loonie' because of the engraving of a loonon the 'tail' side

13. 1990 SPORTSFIGURES
KURTBROWNING
MILITARYOPERATIONS AND AGREEMENTS
THEOKACRISIS
ROYALCOMMISSIONONABORIGINALPEOPLES
PUBLIC POLICIES
- Season1990-1991 wins 1stplace medal atFigure Skating Worlds
Championships for the third time in a row
- Four-time Canadian National Champion
- Dispute betweenFirstNations and Canadian Government
- Golf course built on a burial ground
- Aboriginals protestexpansionof course
- Contributes to Royal Commisionon Aboriginal Peoples
- Commission establishedwith Aboriginal input
- Focuses onAboriginal Self-Government
- Compensation for poor treatment

14. 1990
MILITARYOPERATIONS AND AGREEMENTS
THEGULFWAR
PCPARTY INTERNAL POLITICS
- PC broke into three parts, due to regional disputes
- Saddam Husseininvades Kuwait
- UN action authorizes force
- Multinational force formed
- Canada mainly patrolled
trivia
- Bob Rae upsetDavid Petersonwith a surprisingmajority and became Ontario's
firstNDP (NewDemocratic Party) Premier in September
- The governmentfinally and officially announced that Canada was in recession

15. 1991
BLOCQUEBECOIS INTERNAL POLITICS
JAMESGOSLINGINVENTORS
- Bloc Quebecois Party formed
- Bloc Quebecois formed by Lucien Bouchard,became
dissatisfied with Conservative government, resigned and
with other Quebec MPs formBloc Quebecois
- Same aim as provincialParti Quebecois, sovereignty of
Quebec as a nation separate from Canada
- JAVA

16. 1991
GST PUBLIC POLICIES
trivia
- Originally hadManufacturer sales tax
- Various problems
- Introduced GST
- Poor reception fromthe public
- David Schindler, of the University of Alberta, won the first
international Stockholm Water Prize for environmental research
- First Native allowed to swear native oath, instead of Bible

17. 1992
MIKELAZARIDISINVENTORS
BREAKTHROUGHS, DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS
OTTAWAANKLERULES
SPORTING VICTORIES
TORONTOBLUEJAYS- Toronto Blue Jays wonthe World Series
- Won again in 1993
- Milestone for Canadian baseball
- Develops ResearchinMotion
- Revolutionizes communication
- Developed Blackberry
- Ian Stiell creates guidelines to determine a brokenfootor ankle
- Reduces use of X-rays, saves money andtime

18. 1992
TORONTOBLUEJAYSCharlottetownaccordINTERNAL POLITICS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Genocideinyugoslavia
trivia
- Same objectives as MeechLake
- Additions to Constitutions
- Like the first, itfails
- FirstNATO-led, UN-Organized peacekeepingmission
- BetweenSerbians and Bosnians/Croats
- 16,000 Canadian peacekeepers
- Could be consideredafailure
- RobertaBondar became Canada's firstfemale astronaut in space
- Ontario lawyers voted in January to no-longer be requiredto swear an oath to the Queen

19. 1993
TORONTOBLUEJAYS
trivia
POLITALCHANGE INTERNAL POLITICS
KimCampbellPOLITICIANS
PROMINENT WOMEN
Kimcampbell
- Mulroney resigns after failure in Charlottetown Accord
- Campbell succeededby Liberal, JeanChretien
- Bloc Quebecois is Official Opposition
- First female prime minister of Canada
- Studied in Law School
- Was Cabinet member underBrian Mulroney
- First women to serve as Minister of Justice
and Attorney General

20. 1993 SPORTING VICTORIES
MILITARYOPERATIONS AND AGREEMENTS
THESOMALIAAFFAIR
FIGURESKATINGRECORD
trivia
- BestOlympic Skating worldchampionships since 1962
- Kurt Browning (Gold Medalist)
- Elvis Stojko (Silver Medalist)
- Isabelle Brasseur/LloydEisler (GoldMedalists)
- Military Scandaldubbed, “Canada’sMilitary Shame”
- Acts of the CanadianAirborne Regiment, CAR disbanded
- Damaged Canadiansoldiers morales
- The Nunavut Settlement Agreementwiththe Inuit setinto motion the
plans to divide the NorthwestTerritories to formathirdterritory, Nunavut

21. 1994 SPORTING VICTORIES
TORONTOBLUEJAYS
SPORTING VICTORIES
FIGURESKATINGRECORDECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND AGREEMENTS
nafta
- Agreement between Mexico,United States and Canada
- Aimed to eliminate tariffs
- Canada did not want to losethe US to Mexico
- Created a trading bloc of 390 MillionNorth Americans

22. 1995
QuébecreferendumINTERNAL POLITICS
BREAKTHROUGHS, DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS
Canadarmredesigned
trivia
- Separatism in FrenchCanadians grewafter failure in Accords
- Parti Quebecois holds referendumonQuebec’s Independence
- Parizeau resigns day after
- Robotic Arms usedonSpace Shuttle
- Original Canadarm capable of deploying or retrieving733 lb in space
- Redesignedin 1995 allowing up to 7,260 lbmovement
- The Québec Cree and Inuit peoples held their own referendumandrejectedseparation
fromCanada