It is a great personal and professional pleasure to send out birthday greetings to my fellow fan of the movie Wayne’s World – a tribute to my hometown of Scarborough – former federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair. He and I once bonded while discussing the movie while on a trip overseas as part of the Canadian delegation to Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa. As a proud son of Scarborough, I was more than impressed that Mr. Mulcair had visited the very donut shop where scenes from Wayne’s World were filmed.
Now a much sought-after political commentator, Mr. Mulcair turns 71 today.
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.