Mulroney is presented with a feather by Indigenous elder Alex Skead before the start of the second day of the first ministers’ conference on Indigenous constitutional matters, in Ottawa on March 27, 1987. (Greg Teckles/The Canadian Press) OTTAWA- Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was remembered by politicians of all political stripes Thursday as a “giant” and a “visionary,” as the country absorbed the news of his death at the age of 84. “Mr. Mulroney was one of the greatest prime ministers in Canadian history,” said former Quebec premier Jean Charest, who served in Mulroney’s cabinet. Mulroney died peacefully while surrounded by his family, his daughter Caroline, an Ontario cabinet minister, said on social media. Her spokesman later said he had been hospitalized in Palm Beach, Fla., after a recent…
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