It was a good time to be an Ontario Liberal on this date in 2007 as Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty was given his second majority mandate by Ontario voters. McGuinty had first come to power four years earlier after defeating Progressive Conservative Premier Ernie Eves and his team.All told, McGuinty would lead his party to victory three times, a record of election wins only matched in his party by Sir Oliver Mowat a century and more before. After being held to a minority in the 2011 election, Premier McGuinty soon resigned from his high office and was replaced by Kathleen Wynne, the first woman ever to become Premier of Ontario.[caption id="attachment_288663" align="alignleft" width="435"]
Former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty[/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.
Former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty[/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.