“In what would be any advance person’s worst nightmare, April 10 also happened to be the day the House of Commons approved the GST,” he wrote. “And here I, the leader of the majority party that had pushed the new tax through the House, would be walking out in front of thousands of full-throated Canadians in a baseball stadium, with television cameras on hand as well. As expected, I was given a terrible raspberry by the crowd. Afterwards, members of the American media covering the event asked how I felt at hearing all the boos with George Bush by my side. With a smile I told them that I felt as ashamed as any other Canadian to see the visiting president of the United States treated in such a manner! Memo to all future prime ministers: don’t attend a Blue Jays game after you bring forth a new tax.”
Brian Mulroney and George Bush at the Blue Jays' home opener/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.
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.