It is a great pleasure today to send out birthday greetings to my old boss, Brian Mulroney, who is turning 83. One of the most significant 20th century prime ministers, Mr. Mulroney served as PM between 1984 and 1993, becoming the only Conservative to win back-to-back majority mandates from Canadians since Sir John A. Macdonald himself.It was my high honour to serve as Mr. Mulroney’s memoirs assistant, and I will never be able to repay him for the incredible journey through Canadian history he took me on. Along the way he extended his personal friendship to myself and my entire family and remains a firm supporter of my work in the field of political history. It is therefore a great personal pleasure to send out birthday wishes to our 18th Prime Minister today.It is also important to note that March 20 is a banner day for Alberta’s political history anniversaries. On this date in 1971 the great Peter Lougheed was elected Premier. And, on March 20, 1989, Ralph Klein was first elected to the Alberta Legislature. Finally, on this date in 2004 the Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper was elected the first leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada.caption id="attachment_314567" align="alignleft" width="620"
Former PM Brian Mulroney/captionArthur 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.
Former PM Brian Mulroney/captionArthur 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.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.