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1987 Jun 30 - 1988 Aug 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2453
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad (Prime Minister's visit to G7 Economic Summit in Toronto and to Ottawa, June 1988: administrative arrangements)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 318
Any docs withheld? 7

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88 May 19 Th Minor G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Toronto Economic Summit") [proposed UK delegation] [released July 2016]
88 May 19 Th Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa") [need draft speech for signing bilateral agreements] [released July 2016]
88 May 20 Fr Minor G7: Conrad Black letter to Charles Powell (Economic Summit 1988) [invitation to dinner in Toronto] [released July 2016]
88 May 25 We Trivial G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit and Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Travel Plans") [released July 2016]
88 May 28 Sa Major G7: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Speech to the Canadian Parliament") [Mulroney's purpose in inviting MT "unabashedly electoral"; hoping for comments on British economic changes, free trade, strong defence, East/West relations] [released July 2016]
88 May 30 Mo Minor G7: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO ("Toronto Summit: Events in the Margins: Possible Call on the Prime Minister by the Premier of Ontario") [federal government wants to keep the (Liberal) provincial government out of the limelight] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 1 We Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit, Toronto: Programme") [will accompany MT to dinners] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 1 We Major G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Possible Meeting with the Premier of Ontario") [MT rejects proposal; Mulroney would not want to see MT boosting Ontatio Premier's standing] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 1 We Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Prime Minister's Bilateral with the Italian Prime Minister") [doubtful if proposed time (equivalent of midnight in the UK) would be very wise] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 1 We Minor G7: Charles Powell to Conrad Black (Economic Summit 1988) [thanks for invitation to dinner in Toronto] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 3 Fr Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Economic Summit: Welcoming Ceremony") [will accompany MT but "give my well-known impression of a Special Branch officer when I get there"] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 3 Fr Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Canada") [revised programme for arrivals and departures] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 3 Fr Minor G7: Bernard Ingham note to Charles Powell (Economic Summit 1988) [arrangements for press conferences] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 3 Fr Minor G7: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Wreath") [arrangements, normal practice in Canada, MT's preferences for wreath] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 7 Tu Trivial G7: No.10 Duty Clerk note to Charles Powell (Toronto Economic Summit) [office arrangements] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 8 We Minor G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa, 22 June: Programme") [how to spend the final hour of the programme] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 8 We Minor G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to be an Honorary Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada") [a high honour in Canada] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 8 We Minor G7: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Economic Summit: Possible Meeting with the Premier of Ontario") [FCO accepts that MT should decline the meeting] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 9 Th Minor G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Invitation to the Prime Minister to be an Honorary Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada") [MT accepts with "great pleasure", but with shortest possible ceremonial] [released July 2016]
88 Jun 9 Th Major G7: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to Ottawa: Programme") [not helpful to have main talks with Mulroney before MT's speech to Parliament, which will preoccupy her] [released July 2016]