It was a great day for Ontario Liberals on this date in 2014. Premier Kathleen Wynne, who had taken office as Premier after the resignation of Dalton McGuinty only months before, earned her own majority mandate, catching many pundits and partisans by surprise. Many had expected the Progressive Conservatives under Tim Hudak would be elected. Wynne, Ontario’s first female Premier and the first openly gay provincial First Minister in Canadian history, and her party took 58 of the 107 seats in the Ontario Legislature
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.