Last week, I talked about John Bracken, a former premier who became the Leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1943 to 1948. Today, we have another premier, George Drew, who served as the premier of Ontario during the same years Bracken led...
John Bracken The last episode, I looked at Gordon Graydon, the man who was the Leader of the Official Opposition, but who did not lead his actual party. The party leader was another man named John Bracken. Bracken had become leader of the...
Following Richard Hanson, a new man would come into the role of the Leader of Opposition, and like Hanson, he too was not the leader of his party. Gordon Graydon would serve as the leader of the Official Opposition from 1943 to 1945, while at the...
For three years, Richard Hanson led the Conservatives during a transitional period for the party, and through the bulk of the Second World War. His story is not a long one, but as with many others I will profile in this series, for a time he was one...
The role of the conscription crisis in Canadian politics can’t be understated. It would fracture the Liberal Party and many of its supporters would move over to the Conservatives or the Progressives. That was seen with the last episode and Hugh...
So far, we have looked at two Liberal leaders who never became prime minister. Today, we reach our first Conservative Leader of the Opposition who never became prime minister, and it comes only a few years after our last individual, Daniel Duncan...
Last episode, I talked about Edward Blake, the first Leader of the Official Opposition to never become prime minister when he served from 1880 to 1887. Today, we are going to jump ahead three decades, past the First World War, for the next person...
I had originally planned to do an episode in which I look at my own ranking of the prime ministers of Canada, but I realized that its subjective and my own ranking of the prime ministers won’t be the same as anyone else’s. Not to mention it can be...
Today, we come to the end of the line for Part 1 of From John to Justin. Over the past 23 weeks, I have looked at every prime minister in Canadian history and today we finish with the current prime minister, Justin Trudeau. I will be returning next...
To find a Conservative prime minister who served longer then Stephen Harper, you have to go back all the way to Sir John A. Macdonald. The only Conservative Party of Canada leader to become prime minister so far, Harper helped take Canada from the...