Peter Scott Smith-September 28, 1959-October 18, 2009 Despite the myth, neo-liberals tell today of the good old days of the 1990s, my parents had no government support to take care of Peter. What Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney hadn't obliterated of the Welfare State in the 1980s, Clinton, Blair, Chretien and a host of Canadian premiers pounded away at it in the 1990s