On Brian Mulroneys birthday, members of the public continue to pay their respects [Video]

People have another brief window to pay their respects to Brian Mulroney in Ottawa before the public tributes move to Montreal.

Members of the former prime minister’s family were in a ballroom across the street from Parliament Hill on Wednesday for a second day to receive condolences from a lineup of visitors.

Small groups were being let in after passing through security at the Sir John A. Macdonald building. A few dozen people had lined up to be there right at 9 a.m. when the doors opened.

The mood in the room where Mulroney’s casket remained, draped with the Canadian flag and surrounded with a military honour guard, was less sombre than it was the day before.

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Wednesday would have been Mulroney’s 85th birthday. He died on Feb. 29.

“It’s his birthday today. Make sure you tell him happy birthday,” his son Mark Mulroney told some guests as they made their way up to the casket.

He said the family …