It is a great personal and professional pleasure to send out birthday greetings to Laureen Harper, spouse of our nation’s 22nd Prime Minister, Stephen J. Harper. She (and the entire Harper family) has been a great supporter of my work in the field of political history for many years. Mrs. Harper was her husband’s “secret” campaign weapon and also represented our nation abroad with grace and class. She is remarkable lady I feel very privileged to know. And, it is also the birthday of another dear friend, MP Kelly McCauley. Happy birthday from Kingston Mrs. Harper and Kelly!
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.