Canada’s Minister of Energy, Mélanie Joly, is celebrating her 47th birthday today. Born in Montreal, she went on to become a brilliant student, even winning a scholarship to Oxford. After achieving great success as a lawyer, she entered federal politics in 2015 and was elected a Quebec MP. Ever since she has held many of the most important portfolios in the federal government under Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.
It is a great pleasure to send out birthday greetings to Ms. Joly from Art’s History on her special day.
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.