The Liberal Party of Canada fielded a full slate of 295 candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election, and won 177 seats to form a majority government.
Subsequent debts threatened its viability, and the company required a bailout from Pierre Trudeau's federal government to remain solvent.
[1] Richards left the company in 1983, and later become president of the Canadian International Centre of Commerce,[2] turning his attention to investment in apartment buildings and shopping malls.
Gainer supported official recognition for same-sex marriages during the 1993 campaign, several years before the issue became prominent in Canadian politics (CH, 6 October 1993).
[1] Gainer called on Croatian president Franjo Tuđman to recognize the country's independent election monitoring group in 1997 (CH, 19 June 1997).
During the 2000 Croatian presidential election, she compared frontrunner Stipe Mesić with Jean Chrétien in an interview with a Canadian newspaper (National Post, 24 January 2000).