Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

The DRC entered a short-lived coalition agreement with the Tories which was seen as an attempt by PC leader Joe Clark to reunite the Canadian right on his terms. He was easily re-elected to Parliament in both the 2004 2006 and 2008 elections. He acknowledged having gay staffers working on his campaign: "First of all as far as my campaign I don't ask people if they're homosexual lesbian or heterosexual.

Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of the Treasury Board. Stockwell Burt Day Jr.