Brian Mulroney returns to Parliament Hill for final time as dignitaries, politicos, diplomats, and public pay respects to former prime minister lying in state in Ottawa

Politicians, diplomats, family members, and the public paid tribute to Mulroney, who was prime minister from 1984 to 1993, during a lying-in-state ceremony in Ottawa.

RCMP pallbearers carry the late prime minister Brian Mulroney’s casket into the Sir John A. Macdonald building on March 19, 2024, where Mulroney lies in state before his state funeral in Montreal.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

March 19, 2024

His casket draped in a Canadian flag, former prime minister Brian Mulroney arrived in Ottawa on March 19 for the final time as a number of dignitaries and members of the public making their way to the capital to pay their respects to the man and to his family.

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