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Patricia "Pat" Carney, PC , BA , MA , LLD (born May 26 , 1935 in Shanghai , China ) is a Canadian Senator and former Cabinet minister. Carney first ran for the Canadian House Of Commons as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1979 Election and was defeated. She was elected in the 1980 Election as the Member Of Parliament (MP) from Vancouver Centre . When the Tories formed government under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as a result of the 1984 Election , Carney was appointed to Cabinet as Minister Of Energy, Mines And Resources , and was responsible for dismantling the previous government's unpopular National Energy Policy . In 1986, she was named Minister Of International Trade and, as such, was involved in negotiating the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement . Carney did not run for re-election in the 1988 Election . In 1990, she was appointed to the Canadian Senate. Carney, a Pro-choice advocate of women's rights to abortion, voted against the Abortion law proposed by her successor as MP for Vancouver Centre, Kim Campbell . The bill failed in the Senate by one vote. More recently Carney mused that the Province of British Columbia might benefit from separating from Canada . Carney became a Conservative Senator in 2004 following the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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