One of Canada’s longest-serving parliamentarians passed into history on this date in 2017. Marcel Prud’homme was 82. First elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1964, he would hold his Quebec seat until his appointment to the Red Chamber in 1993 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. All told he served more than 45 years on Parliament Hill.
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.