It is a great pleasure to send out birthday greetings from Art’s History to the newest member of the Prime Minister’s Club, the Right Honourable Mark Carney. The 24th Prime Minister is celebrating his 61st birthday. I know that all readers of my column, regardless of party views, will join with me wishing the PM a happy birthday today. And, today I issue my first public invitation to Prime Minister Carney to join seven of his predecessors in performing a ceremonial tree planting in my famous Kingston garden. Over to you Prime Minister.
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.