Mulroney highlights family, business acumen as she runs for Ontario Tories
TORONTO — Caroline Mulroney highlighted her mother’s teachings on conservatism, her grandparents’ immigrant background, and her experience as a parent and businesswoman to a national gathering of conservatives on Friday as she sought to portray herself as a new kind of leader needed in Ontario politics.
The daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney is among three high-profile candidates vying to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, a party thrown into turmoil months ahead of a spring election after the departure of Patrick Brown, who resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations he emphatically denies.
Caroline Mulroney, a 43-year-old Toronto lawyer, said that while Canadians muse about her father’s impact on her politics, it was her mother’s side of the family that influenced her conservatism.
“People talk a lot about my dad and his experience and how that might influence me, but my mother was born in Yugoslavia,” Mulroney said at the Manning Conference in Ottawa Friday.