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Canada

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Sun Jul 26, 2015, 11:40 PM Jul 2015

"Red Tory" Flora MacDonald dies at 89

First serious female candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership, external affairs minister under Joe Clark in 1979-80.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/07/26/veteran-federal-politician-flora-macdonald-dead-at-age-89.html

(note: a "Red Tory" for the benefit of U.S. readers, was a member of the more progressive wing of the Prpgressive Conservatives. Ms. MacDonald had no use for the current Conservative Party under Stephen Harper-reportedly voting NDP in recent elections.)

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"Red Tory" Flora MacDonald dies at 89 (Original Post) Ken Burch Jul 2015 OP

Didn't some opposition MP say of her "she was the finest applegrove Jul 2015 #1

applegrove

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1. Didn't some opposition MP say of her "she was the finest

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Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:20 AM

Jul 2015

woman to walk the streets of Kingston". She had to put up with a lot I bet. Being the first is a tough slog. I saw her presentation of her fact finding mission to Congo refugee camps just after the Rwandan genocide. She certainly was not 'slowed down' in her retirement.

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