On this date in 1984 – 40-years-ago – Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced his resignation plans. He would make way for a new Liberal Party leader and PM that would come to power in June.
Our American friends, naturally, took note of the resignation. A columnist at the Los Angeles Times noted the following: “Trudeau always seemed to know that he could not be accepted by his own people,” he wrote. “A society which eulogizes the average citizen is one which breeds mediocrity. And if there is one thing nearly everyone agrees on here, it is that Trudeau was never mediocre.”
One suspects that if he had read the above piece, Pierre Trudeau probably – quietly mind you -- enjoyed it.
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.