It was a great day to be an Ontario Liberal on this date in 1987. The province’s voters handed Premier David Peterson and his team a massive majority mandate that saw the Liberals, who had taken office two-years previously, returning to Queen’s Park with a 95 member caucus. The once mighty Ontario Tories were reduced to third-party status, with Bob Rae and his NDP forming the Official Opposition with 19 MPPs elected.
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.