Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, is celebrating more than Christmas today. December 25, of course, is his birthday and the former PM turns 54. He was born in Ottawa and his proud parents were, of course, then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau. Justin would go onto become PM in 2015 and served until earlier this year in Canada’s most difficult job. Happy birthday from Art’s History Mr. Trudeau! And on a personal note, another reminder, Mr. Trudeau, that you still haven’t joined seven of your colleague Prime Ministers who have previously performed a tree-planting in my famous garden here in Kingston. Over to you Mr. Trudeau!
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.