It was definitely a good time to be a federal Liberal on this date in 1940. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and his party earned a second majority mandate when the polls closed that evening across the nation. This allowed the ever-wily King to wield a better hand as the Second World War continued. Five-years later, Prime Minister King and the Liberals would be victorious at the war’s close, a remarkable achievement.
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.