Stockwell Day successfully ran for leader of the newly formed Canadian Alliance against former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, winning that position on July 8,2000.
38 Facts About Stockwell Day
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Stockwell Day then held several cabinet portfolios under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and was widely seen as a prominent voice for social conservatives within the Conservative Party.
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On March 12,2011, Stockwell Day announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the 2011 federal election.
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Stockwell Day lived in a number of places in Canada during his youth, including Atlantic Canada; Ottawa, where he attended Ashbury College; and Montreal, where he graduated from Westmount High School.
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Stockwell Day attended the University of Victoria and Vanguard College, then known as Northwest Bible College, in Edmonton, Alberta, but did not graduate from either.
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Stockwell Day's father, who was born in Montreal, was long associated with the Social Credit Party of Canada.
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From 1978 to 1985, Stockwell Day was assistant pastor and school administrator at the Bentley Christian Centre in Bentley, Alberta.
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In 1986, Stockwell Day was elected to represent Red Deer North in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a Progressive Conservative, a position that he held until 2000.
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In May 1996, Stockwell Day was made Minister of Social Services, and in March 1997, he became Treasurer.
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In 2000, Stockwell Day decided to run for leader of the newly formed Canadian Alliance party.
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Stockwell Day won the by-election on September 11,2000, arriving at his first news conference on a Jet Ski wearing a wetsuit.
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Nonetheless, the new party went into the election with high hopes, as Stockwell Day was expected to appeal far more to the crucial Ontario voters than his predecessors.
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Stockwell Day began by denying that he had ever referred to homosexuality as a "mental disorder".
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Stockwell Day filed a complaint with the CBC for the fact that he was at no time asked for comment on the matter.
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Stockwell Day was a victim of an incident during the election.
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Stockwell Day stumbled during two campaign appearances in the first week.
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The next day, at Niagara Falls, Stockwell Day remarked that Canadian jobs were flowing south "just like the Niagara River", when in fact the river flows north.
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The Liberals' attacks on Stockwell Day ended up decimating the NDP and Progressive Conservatives, as many voters who would otherwise have supported those parties voted strategically for the Liberals to prevent an Alliance victory.
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Stockwell Day was criticized for the costs and eventually re-paid the province $60,000, the settlement amount excluding legal fees.
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Stockwell Day later made it clear that he never did hire or approve of the hiring of an investigator.
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Stockwell Day offered an amnesty, but seven of them turned it down and formed the Democratic Representative Caucus, led by Strahl and Grey.
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Stockwell Day later appeared as a speaker at a "Canadians for Bush" rally in the Niagara region, organized by controversial right-wing minister Tristan Emmanuel.
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Stockwell Day did not run for the leadership of the new party, but remained as Foreign Affairs critic.
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Stockwell Day was easily re-elected to Parliament in the 2004,2006, and 2008 elections.
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In November 2004, Stockwell Day provoked controversy by not offering condolences to Palestinians after the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
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The controversy was heightened when it was leaked to the media that Stockwell Day had attempted to justify his actions to his party colleagues by circulating an article by David Frum which suggested that Arafat had died of AIDS.
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On March 12,2011, Stockwell Day announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the 2011 federal election.
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On February 6,2006, Stockwell Day was promoted to the Minister of Public Safety in the Conservative government and was sworn into the Privy Council.
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When, in May 2008, Israeli Ambassador Alan Baker warned that Canada's Muslim population will influence its policies, Stockwell Day responded by saying that Canada was proud of its multicultural composition.
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On October 30,2008, Stockwell Day was sworn in as Minister of International Trade in the Conservative Government.
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Stockwell Day was appointed president of the Treasury Board by Stephen Harper on January 19,2010.
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In March 2011, Stockwell Day announced that he would not seek re-election in the next federal elections.
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Stockwell Day currently holds a position on the board of directors the Canada China Business Council.
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Stockwell Day previously sat on the boards of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and the Canada-India Business Council.
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Stockwell Day had said that systemic racism did not exist in Canada and referenced his experience of being bullied as a child for wearing glasses, suggesting it was the same as having to endure racism.
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Stockwell Day noted the difference between the Floyd family asking for the violence to stop with the reaction of a number of celebrities who were not condemning the violence and offering to pay the bill of arrested people.
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Stockwell Day apologized the next day to those who had been hurt by any of his comments and vowed to continue the fight against racism in all its forms.
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Since October 2021, Stockwell Day has served as the interim president of the King's College, a small Christian liberal arts college in New York City.