Canada and the world lost a champion of peace and human rights one year-ago today with the death of Jimmy Carter. To mark this anniversary, readers of Art’s History will find below video – thanks to CPAC’s archives – of speeches in the House of Commons on March 26, 1979. That was the day all party leaders, along with former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, celebrated President Carter for his work achieving the Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt – one of the greatest diplomatic achievements in modern history. The House unanimously approved Mr. Diefenbaker’s motion calling for President Carter to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
You can watch the debate at this link. Note that the speeches honouring President Carter start with Mr. Diefenbaker’s address about six minutes in. https://www.cpac.ca/house-of-commons-proceedings/episode/house-of-commons-debates--march-26-1979?id=452f4fdf-bfbe-4d91-a9af-dc82e9e35b17
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.