Today in Canada's Political History - August 2, 2017: Caroline Mulroney announces she will enter politics in Ontario

  • National Newswatch

It was on this date in 2017 that Caroline Mulroney announced she would be seeking the Ontario Progressive Conservative nomination in the provincial riding of York-Simcoe. "I love this province and I believe in a better future for Ontario," she said in a YouTube video announcing her candidacy. “Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect." 

Mulroney was successful, winning the nomination and not long after she was elected and started her service as a MPP and cabinet minister under Premier Doug Ford.




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.