Jean Chrétien and his Liberals received their first majority mandate from Canadians on this date in 1993. He and his Liberals won 178 seats and would spend the next decade in power. Chrétien and his party would be re-elected after majority victories in 1997 and 2000. Happy anniversary today Mr. Chrétien!
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.