Belinda biography stronach

Belinda biography stronach

Review Before I began this book, I knew that Belinda Stronach was a striking blond university dropout and a former president of Magna International who in facilitated the creation of the new Conservative Party of Canada. I also knew that in she contested the leadership of that party and came in second to Stephen Harper.

That same year she ran as a Conservative MP in Newmarket, Aurora home to the Magna empirewon, became disillusioned with Harper, joined the Liberals as a minister, saved the Liberals in a crucial vote two days later, saw them defeated later that year, ran for re-election as a Liberal, and since February has been a backbencher.

And did I mention that she dresses nicely and has relationships with such high-profile people as Bill Clinton, Peter MacKay, and Tie Domi, not all of which have been platonic?

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I never thought that Stronach would have got as far as she has if her last name had been, say, Hall Findlay, and I regret that Don Martin does little to change my mind. Shut out from key sources, such as Stephen Harper, Martin was forced to rely on interviews with Belinda and her friends, supplemented by the oodles of media reports.

We learn that her parents had a marriage of convenience, that she remains pals with her two ex-husbands, that she spent bundles of money in pursuit of her leadership ambitions.