AHC Canadian PM Stockwell Day

Your challenge, should you accept it, is with no PoD before 1993, have Stockwell Day get elected and serve a term as Prime Minister of Canada. How could this be done? What would be the effects? What would this TL be like?
 
Chretien dies of a stroke or something and is unavailable to make his last minute speech during the 1995 Quebec referendum.

The Quebec separatists win by the narrowest of margins. Bouchard immediately declares independence. The result is some sort of political showdown with the Premier of Quebec ordering the QPP and other provincial law enforcement and agencies to confront the Canadian military withdrawing gold reserves. Tensions run high for weeks with soldiers and police stationed everywhere and by accident a couple of Canadian soldiers are killed by university students. The Liberals declare martial law, but that only creates more problems and is largely seen as too little too late. The rest of Canada is disgusted and the Liberal Party is discredited as weak and ineffective. As well, Sponsorship Scandal comes to light much earlier, during the Liberal's reign in the late 90's, except this time lots of money was spent to lose and is directly tied to several Liberal Party MPPs who resign and face criminal prosecution. The final nail in the coffin is 9/11, where a dual citizenship Canadian with Quebec separatist leanings was a muscle hijacker. The PCs declare their utmost support for the War on Terror and the Liberal's downsizing of the military is seen as a root cause of terrorism. The Liberals lose official party status even worse than the PCs after GST.

This creates a situation for the next twenty years where Conservatism is the driving ideology in Canada. The PCs dominate the elections with Western separatism at its peak and Ontario grudgingly going along with Joe Clark or some other dignified PC leader. Stockwell Day serves as Deputy Prime Minister, and on Clark's retirement Day becomes Prime Minister.
 
Basically you're saying that Day is very unlikely to ever become prime minister? Is there not a plausible way that keeps Canada united?
 
A far easier way to make this happen would be to have him run a much better campaign in 2000, pushing the Liberals to a minority and resulting in the Alliance, PCs, and Bloc combined holding a majority of seats. As has since been revealed, the three parties had discussed forming a coalition government had this scenario had occurred, so had the Liberals lost their majority in 2000 Day would have had a pretty good chance of becoming Prime Minister.

I don't see the government lasting long, though. Even if the Bloc isn't actually a formal part of the coalition (itself a problem as the government would almost completely lack Quebec cabinet ministers), the policy differences between it and the other two parties make me think the agreement would fall apart pretty quickly. Plus, there's also the problem that Canadians might not like the fact that Day formed a coalition at all (for example, look at the outrage caused by the attempted Liberal-NDP coalition in 2008).
 
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