Frank Duff Moores served as the second premier of Newfoundland as leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1972 until his retirement in 1979.
16 Facts About Frank Moores
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Frank Moores was accused accepting secret commissions as part of the Airbus affair.
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Frank Moores later worked briefly in the Boston fish industry and then returned to Newfoundland, where he worked in his father's fish plant.
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Frank Moores's father, Silas Moores, was a wealthy businessman in that industry.
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Frank Moores worked with his father to expand the family business, North East Fisheries, to the stage that it became the largest fish processor in Newfoundland by the early 1960s and employed 2,000 people.
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Frank Moores was elected to a one-year term as president of the federal PC Party in 1969.
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Frank Moores was asked to form a government in January 1972, several months after the October 1971 election, which resulted in a near tie between Joey Smallwood's Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives.
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Frank Moores soon called a new March 1972 election and won a strong majority.
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Frank Moores brought a more consultative approach to government than had prevailed under Smallwood.
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Frank Moores left politics in March 1979 to re-enter business and became a lobbyist.
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Frank Moores served as an adviser to Mulroney premiership and was appointed to the Board of Air Canada, which was then a crown corporation.
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Frank Moores worked for Government Consultants International, a powerful Ottawa-based international lobbying firm, which then had as clients the airline firms Wardair and Nordair, which were competitors of Air Canada.
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Frank Moores resigned his Air Canada directorship shortly after GCI had taken on the Airbus file.
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Karlheinz Schreiber's accountant alleged that Frank Moores received secret commissions from Schreiber.
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On July 10,2005, Frank Moores died of liver cancer in Perth, Ontario.
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In November 2007, in the wake of new revelations about the Airbus affair by Karlheinz Schreiber, The Globe and Mail published evidence indicating that Frank Moores had written a letter about the Airbus deal to Franz Josef Strauss, the chairman of Airbus Industrie.