Official Ottawa and the Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau were all abuzz on this date in 1975 when John Napier Turner -- the very popular Finance Minister -- resigned. Mr. Turner, who passed into history in 2020, could not support the Prime Minister’s plans to impose wage and price controls after the party had campaigned against them only one year before.Turner, who would go on to be elected party leader and then serve as Prime Minister in 1984, withdrew from public life and entered the business world based in Toronto. Despite the 1975 dispute between Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Turner, I have long believed that stories of the personal tension between the two men, have been exaggerated.  Both intellectuals – Mr. Turner had been a Rhodes Scholar -- they enjoyed a mutually-respectful friendship during their years together in the Liberal cabinet of Lester Pearson and afterwards.I spent many hours with Mr. Turner in off-the-record historical discussions and never heard Mr. Turner disparage Mr. Trudeau.  He spoke of Trudeau with great respect and admiration.Birthdays: Sending out birthday best wishes to MPs Darren Fisher, Matthew Green, Ben Lobb and Senators Daniel Christmas and Paul Massicotte.[caption id="attachment_583583" align="alignleft" width="252"] Pierre Trudeau and John Turner[/caption]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.