Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservative team were handed a massive majority mandate by Canadians on this date in 1984. When the polls closed and all the votes were counted, the Boy from Baie Comeau would be leading a government caucus of 211 Members of Parliament! The once might Liberals were reduced from majority statues to a caucus of only 40, while the NDP had 30 Members of Parliament in their caucus. Prime Minister Mulroney would be returned with another majority mandate in 1988.
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.