As always at Art’s History, we pause each anniversary date to recall the maiden House addresses of all our Prime Ministers. And, today, it is Brian Mulroney’s turn.  Elected PC leader in June 1983, Mr. Mulroney was successful shortly afterwards, in a Nova Scotia by-election, sent to the House to represent the citizens of Central Nova. It was a great moment in Commons history when he first took to his feet in the House on this date, only weeks after winning his party’s leadership. Mr. Mulroney’s good-natured address was well received by members of his own party. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and NDP leader Ed Broadbent both welcomed the new Leader of the Opposition with good humour and good-natured partisan salvos sent across the floor at the new kid on the block. All three speeches are worth recalling today when civility is too often missing in our politics. You can find the 18^th Prime Minister’s first-ever House address here. You can also watch that day’s events here. Birthdays: Sending out birthday greetings to Don Martin of CTV fame and to MP Emmanuella Lambropoulos. 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.