There have been 12 designated Prime Ministers in Canada, half of which were Conservative:

      1873 – Alexander Mackenzie – Liberal

      1891 – John Abbott – Conservative-Liberal

      1892 – John Thompson – Conservative

      1894 – Mackenzie Bowell – Conservative

      1896 – Charles Tupper – Conservative

      1920 – Arthur Meighen – National Liberal & Conservative Party

      1926 – Arthur Meighen – Conservative

      1948 – Louis St. Laurent – Liberal

      1968 – Pierre Trudeau – Liberal

      1984 – John Turner – Liberal

      1993 – Kim Campbell – Conservative

      2003 – Paul Martin – Liberal

John Abbott and MacKenzie Bowell were non-elected Senators while Charles Tupper and John Turner were never elected as an MP.

There have been 15 designated Premiers of Ontario:

1867 John S MacDonald - Liberal-Conservative

1872 Oliver Mowatt – Liberal

1896 Arthur Hardy – Liberal

1899 George W Ross – Liberal

1914 William Hearst - Conservative

1930 George Henry  - Conservative

1942 Gordon Conant  -  Liberal

1943 Harry Nixon  - Liberal

1948 Thomas Kennedy  - Conservative

1949 Leslie Frost  -  Conservative

1961 John Robarts  - Conservative

1971 Bill Davis  - Conservative

1985 Frank Miller  -  Conservative

1985 David Petersen  - Liberal

2002 Ernie Eves  - Conservative

There have been 22 designated premiers of Quebec:

1873 Gédéon Ouimet – Conservative

1874 Charles Boucher de Boucherville – Conservative

1878 Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière – Liberal

1879 Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau – Conservative

1882 Joseph-Alfred Mousseau – Conservative

1884 John Jones Ross – Conservative

1887 Louis-Olivier Taillon – Conservative

1887 Honoré Mercier – Parti National

1891 Charles Boucher de Boucherville – Conservative

1892 Louis-Olivier Taillon – Conservative

1896 Edmund James Flynn – Conservative

1900 Simon-Napoléon Parent – Liberal

1905 Lomer Gouin – Liberal

1920 Louis-Alexandre Taschereau – Liberal

1936 Adélard Godbout – Liberal

1959 Paul Sauvé – Union Nationale

1960 Antonio Barrette – Union Nationale

1968 Jean-Jacques Bertrand – Union Nationale

1985 Pierre-Marc Johnson – Parti Québécois

1994 Daniel Johnson – Liberal

1996 Lucien Bouchard – Parti Québécois

2003 Bernard Landry- Parti Québécois

In fact, 170,000 FEWER Conservatives voted for him.

Yet due to the lack of proportional representation in the House of Commons he managed to obtain 20 more seats – yet still has a minority of the seats.

So why should he be allowed to prorogue Parliament and govern like a King without opposition?

Stephen Harper’s lies about the Coalition are getting more and more divisive.

He lied when he said “Here we have these three parties signing a document, and they wouldn’t even have a the Canadian flag behind them! They had to be photographed without it, because a member of the coalition doesn’t even believe in the country.”

He lied when he said that it includes the Separatists in the Coalition.  In fact, the Coalition is between the NDP and the Liberals with the support of the BQ and the Green Party.

He lied when he said that it is something that he would never work with the BQ.  In fact, he relied on the BQ to bail him out in 40 non-confidence votes during the last 2 years.

He lied when he used a different speech in English than in French on Dec 4 referring to “separatists” in the highly provocative English speech while cowardly using the term “souverainiste” in the French speech 5 minutes later.  Harper knows full well the difference in the two terms when used in French in Quebec. 

Separatist has a distinctly negative connotation that focuses on the division of Canada, while sovereigntist has a postitive connotation that focuses on promoting independence without necessarily damaging Canada.  As in Sovereignty-Association.

He lied when he claimed that his economic statement contained new initiatives to support the economy.  In fact all he did was summarize intiatives already announced in prior budgets.  There was nothing new other than an attack on pay equity for women.

Finally he lied when he said that our oldest democratic traditions dating back 141 years were based on electing a government.  In fact our parliamentary tradition was started by a coalition government in the 1860s and is based on electing members to the House of Commons who are responsible for forming a government based on a majority of members.  Our country has subsequently had several coalition governments both federally and provincially.

The real question is how can Harper claim that proroguing Parliament is a democratic act?