Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political future was once again in jeopardy on this date in 2024. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, whose party had been propping up the government during a minority Parliament, released an open letter to Canadians announcing his decision. “Justin Trudeau failed in the biggest job a Prime Minister has: to work for people, not the powerful,” he said on X in releasing his letter. “The NDP will vote to bring this government down, and give Canadians a chance to vote for a government who will work for them.”
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.