It was a good day to be a federal Liberal on this date in 1993. Jean Chrétien was officially sworn-as the nation’s 20th Prime Minister. He had arrived in Canada’s highest political office after serving in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. Chrétien would go on to serve a decade as Prime Minister and retire in 2003.
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.