It was on this date in 1981 that Ontario Premier Bill Davis proved that bland definitely works as his Progressive Conservative Party won a majority of the seats in the provincial election.  Davis had spent the previous six years heading minority governments that featured, for two years, NDP leader Stephen Lewis as Ontario’s Leader of the Opposition. When asked by a Queen’s Park journalist to describe the secret behind his political success, Davis responded "bland works".   Davis had first been elected at the age of 29 and served almost 26 uninterrupted years in the provincial legislature, eventually winning four election as party leader. Davis would continue his service as Premier until early 1985 when Frank Miller replaced him as Ontario PC leader.  Most observers today rank Mr. Davis as one of the best Ontario Premiers of the modern era. caption id="attachment_540038" align="aligncenter" width="204" Bill Davis 1984/caption Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist.  He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.  A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.