It was a big day in Ottawa on this date in 1989 as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney shuffled his cabinet in light of his re-election before Christmas. Future Prime Minister Kim Campbell entered the cabinet for the first time, with Mulroney tapping her to serve as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development.“The shuffle was designed both to replace veterans who had been defeated in the election and to inject some new blood into the government’s front benches,” Mulroney later wrote in his Memoirs.Notably, Lucien Bouchard was named Minister of the Environment and to the two most important cabinet committees, Priorities and Planning and the Operations Committee, respectively.“Emphasizing the importance I attached to the environment, I told the media gathered outside Rideau Hall that, ‘this places the environment at the forefront of all our initiatives. We have created as well a ministerial committee on the environment whose evolution will ensure that the environment not only receives priority treatment, but is not subject to override by other committees of cabinet,’” he wrote.Mulroney’s second term as PM had begun.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.