Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Minister of Finance, François-Philippe Champagne, is celebrating his 55th birthday today. Born in Quebec, he went on to study at Université de Montréal and Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Ohio. After enjoying a successful business career, Champagne entered politics in 2015 and was elected as a Liberal to represent former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s old riding. He held a variety of cabinet posts under then PM Justin Trudeau. Earlier this year he was named Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Mark Carney and continues in this crucial post today.
Happy birthday from Art’s History Minister Champagne!
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.