Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister and his team came a step closer to earning a strong, stable and national majority mandate from Canadians on this date in 2011 with their defeat on a motion of non-confidence in the Commons. This forced an election and Stephen J. Harper would lead his party to the promised land of a majority government weeks later.
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.