Over the past 40 years, there have been many important politicians on the federal level for Canada. Some have served as Prime Ministers, others as leaders of party. Arguably, one of the most influential would be Preston Manning. While he never...
For a brief time, between when Gilles Duceppe was the interim leader of the Bloc Quebecois, and before he became the permanent leader of the party for a decade and a half, there was Michel Gauthier, who led the party and the Official Opposition for...
After Lucien Bouchard left the Bloc Quebecois to lead Quebec as the premier of the province in 1997, the leadership of the party fell to a new man, Gilles Duceppe. With assuming the leadership of the party, Duceppe would also become the Leader of...
Arguably one of the most influential men to ever be leader of the official opposition, but not become prime minister was Lucien Bouchard. His role as a founding member of the Bloc Quebecois would completely change the Canadian politics forever. For...
Following Erik Nielsen’s time as Leader of the Official Opposition in 1983, we have to jump ahead to 1990 to get to the next individual who led the Official Opposition but never became prime minister. That person was Herb Gray. He would only serve...
Last week we looked at one of the most well-known individuals to serve as the Leader of the Official Opposition, who never became Prime Minister, Robert Stanfield. Now, I am going to look at a man who had a multi-decade career in the House of...
He is referred to as the best prime minister Canada never had and from 1967 to 1976, he served as the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Leader of the Official Opposition. In that time, he took part in three elections, more than...
As we are back looking at the Opposition leaders who never became prime minister, we have reached the 1960s. John Diefenbaker had taken over as leader of the Progressive Conservatives on Dec. 14, 1956, and he would remain in charge until Sept. 8...
Well, we made it folks. We have hit the final election in the series. It has been a long 36 days and we have covered a lot of elections and I want to thank all of you for following along. After gaining the second most seats in the history of the...
After Stephen Harper was able to obtain a majority government in 2011, it would mean that Canada would get several years before another election was called. During that time, the major parties would go through some major changes in leadership. While...