The Pierre Trudeau-era in Canadian politics came to an end on this date in 1984 with the 15th Prime Minister delivering his farewell address at the Liberal leadership convention in Ottawa. All told, he had served 16-years in Canada’s top political job and delivered three majority and one minority victories for his party. He lost only once, to the Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark in 1979.
You can watch Trudeau’s June 14, 1984 speech at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAm_RO5NcJM
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.