Rookie American President Bill Clinton made history on this date in 1993 when he affixed his signature to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at a special ceremony in Washington. It marked a milestone moment in Canada-US relations, one that seems so far away now as Donald Trump levies punishing tariffs on Canada and other nations.
You can watch Clinton’s signing ceremony at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDuMUgt-og
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.