All eyes were on Ottawa and the House of Commons on this date in 2024 with Joe Biden taken his turn at the House of Commons’ podium to address Canada’s Parliament. He received a rousing reception from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his cabinet and MPs from all parties during his visit. Biden’s was the first U.S. President to address our Parliament since Bill Clinton’s triumphant visit almost 20-years before.
You can watch the President’s historic address at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmX79L3go8
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.