The Conservative rank and file elected Saskatchewan’s Andrew Scheer their first permanent leader since the defeat of the Harper government on this date in 2017. A career politician, the new leader was first elected to the Commons in 2004. Between 2011 and 2015 he had also served as Speaker of the House.After leading his party’s defeat in 2019, Scheer’s leadership came under attack from within Conservative ranks. In 2019 he resigned and was replaced by Erin O’Toole.Scheer remains a MP today.
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.
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.