Talk:List of prime ministers of Canada

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I have a problem with the list of Prime Ministers having many of the early parties fall under the category of 'Historical Conservative Parties,' as it paints a misleading political picture imo, which attempts to make the parties of old look like a continuity with the Conservative Party. For instance why should the Liberal-Conservatives be called 'historical conservative parties,' when they could just as soon be called 'historical liberal parties.' To paint them either way is misleading. It would seem better to use a different colour entirely for parties that are neither liberal or conservative, perhaps orange, green, purple, yellow, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indiansummermh (talk • contribs) 21:17, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment, Indiansummermh. To the best of my knowledge, there is a continuity of the historical conservative parties listed here. The Liberal-Conservative Party wasn't a coalition of Liberals and Conservatives; it was the name of the Conservative Party until they changed it to just "Conservative Party" in 1873, "Unionist Party" in 1917, "National Liberal and Conservative Party" in 1920, and finally to "Progressive Conservative Party" in 1942. The Liberal Party was a completely separate party during the entire time the Conservatives were using each of those names. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:00, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Prime Ministers

With the table the legend shows the colour key and the 3 party groups and its colour but there's no colour with any Prime Minister row section. Tyman222 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Its the first column under "No." -- Moxy (talk) 19:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am seeing it shaded in gray. Could it perhaps be because I'm on my iPhone? Tyman222 (talk • contribs) 19:22, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I fixed it by editing Template:Canadian first minister list. 117Avenue (talk) 02:17, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes you did. Thanks. Tyman222 (talk • contribs) 04:43, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stephan Harper

Stephen Harper did not resign or ceased to be Prime Minister on election night 2015. He's still Prime Minister until he resigns & Justin Trudeau is sworn in. At times like these, I wish IPs were barred from editing Wikipedia. GoodDay (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Correction he resigned as head of the party on election night. Also I am Canadian and have been following the media around the election and both the Canadian Parliament and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) have stated on Oct. 30, 2015 that on Nov. 4, 2015 on Harper will cease to be Prime Minister, and Justin Trudeau be signed in. Therefore, the date SHOULD be included in preparation for that date.

112.208.148.105 (talk) 08:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We don't include the date until Harper actually resigns. GoodDay (talk) 08:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re Stephen Harper 2006-3015. Why is Afghanistan Mission listed under Harper and not earlier? The first group was sent before Harper in 2001. OP Athena was also before Harper in 2003 -2005. AcornAndMaple (talk) 14:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from List of Canadian ministries

We need sources for the bellow--Moxy (talk) 22:51, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

By convention, each Canadian ministry is formed when the chairing prime minister is appointed and dissolved when s/he leaves office. The one exception occurred during the premiership of Robert Borden whose wartime Unionist government is considered a separate ministry from the one he chaired as head of a Conservative government. Elections do not cause dissolution of the ministry unless they result in the government's defeat – this is in contrast to other Commonwealth realms such as Australia and the United Kingdom where a "new" ministry is considered to have been formed after every election regardless of the winner. Therefore, the twenty-eight ministries that have served Canada represent twenty-six occasions since Canadian Confederation that the premiership has changed hands and one occasion when a coalition government was formed by the sitting prime minister.

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Full Names

I reverted an editor who had changed every name to their legal full name (eg. Justin Trudeau --> Justin Pierre James Trudeau) and added British nobility titles (eg. Viscount Bennett). Seems like pretty blatant WP:TMI. Madg2011 (talk) 19:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 19:33, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Joe Clark

For some reason Joe Clark was omitted from the list of living former PMs. After checking the news to make sure he didn't pass on when I wasn't looking, I put him back in. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 21:08, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Laurier removing the right of status Indians to vote

The article simply states (unsourced) that Laurier removed the right of status Indians to vote. It's unsourced and doesn't feature as notable, and also does not give proper context (based on my independent research). Voting had been extended by Macdonald to those status Indians "in possession and occupation of a separate and distinct tract of land in such reserve, and whose improvements on such separate tract are not of the value of at least one hundred and fifty dollars" who lived in Ontario or eastward. But all other status Indians were excluded already (which was the large majority). How can this be properly qualified (and is it notable in light of this qualification)? See https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indigenous-suffrage Homagetocatalonia (talk) 16:10, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Post-1968 dates

I had to correct the dates for the prime ministers (P. Trudeau to J. Trudeau), concerning taking office & resigning. We used to have something in place to explain why the resignation dates were different & showed both dates (but somebody deleted it). Meanwhile, somebody else changed the assumption of office dates, which I just had to correct. GoodDay (talk) 03:32, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of prime ministers of Canada by age

Please see my suggestion at Talk:List of prime ministers of Canada by time in office#List of prime ministers of Canada by age. --142.112.221.64 (talk) 23:21, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]