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Today in Canada’s Political History: Happy Dominion-Canada Day; Sir Robert Borden announces his resignation as Prime Minister to his caucusAs readers of Art’s History know, I am no fan of calling our national day “Canada Day.” Instead, I, like my late father before me, still say today is “Dominion Day.” But, in the interest of celebrating each July 1 the work of the Fathers of Confederation in establishing and then nurturing the new nation in 1867, I’ll accept an amalgamation of the two names.
“May I add that,” Borden concluded, “although the path of duty was not always to be discerned clearly, I have never consciously departed from able discharge. I have the permission of His Excellency the Governor-General to inform you of my retirement in the immediate future.” A few days later, Sir Robert would be on hand as his successor, Arthur Meighen, was sworn-in as Canada’s 9Prime Minister. Months later, in November 1920, Borden, in the privacy of his diary, had no regrets at stepping down.
“Democracy is always ungrateful, forgetful and neglected,” he wrote. “I am very happy to have given up my public duties and to have retired from public life.”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.
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