One of the anchors of the Stephen J. Harper cabinet announced his intentions to leave federal politics on this date in 2015. John Baird, who was serving as Minister of Foreign Affair at the time of his resignation, had previously served as Minister of the Environment, Minister of Transport, Government House Leader and President of the Treasury Board. This popular and effective Harper minster was replaced at the Pearson Building by Rob Nicholson.
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.