List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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1993-2004: Jean Chrétien (Liberal)

1993 (Majority): Lucien Bouchard (Bloc Québécois), Preston Manning (Reform), Audrey McLaughlin (New Democratic), Kim Campbell (Progressive Conservative)
1997 (Majority): Preston Manning (Reform), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Elise Wayne (Progressive Conservative)
2001 (Majority): Preston Manning (Reform), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Stephen Harper (Progressive Conservative)

2004: Paul Martin (Liberal majority)
2004-2008: Preston Manning (Reform)

2004 (Minority): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), David Orchard (Progressive Conservative)
2006 (Minority): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), David Orchard (Progressive Conservative)
2008-2016: Scott Brison (Liberal)
2008 (Majority): Preston Manning (Reform), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), David Orchard/Paul T. Hellyer (Progressive Conservative-Canadian Action Alliance)
2012 (Majority): Stephen Harper (Reform), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic)
2016-Present: Max Bernier (Reform)
2016 (Minority with Bloc Québécois confidence & supply): Scott Brison (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Peggy Nash (New Democratic)

  • That one guy that tried to kill Chrétien because he felt that he rigged the Quebec referendum decides to kill Charest (who was one of the three leaders of the "non" campaign) because of his weaker security force.
  • Elise Wayne becomes PC leader and as a result of her socially conservative views and lack of charisma has a poorer showing for the Tories.
  • Manning decides to keep Reform, feeling he doesn’t need to rebrand.
  • The PC leadership is won by Manning’s former protege Stephen Harper, who defeats David Orchard and Hugh Segal.
  • 2001 gives a Liberal majority, but one a bit smaller than 2000 IOTL’s. The Reform and Tory campaigns are hurt by the constant reporting on the relationship between Manning and Harper, but Reform seemed to be hit much less.
  • McDonough decides to stay on as NDP leader after a stronger performance.
  • Harper attempts to stay on as Tory leader to finally merger Reform and the Tories, but Orchardites take over the party and remove him from his post. Blues like Harper and Prentice join Reform, while the Reds that hadn’t left over Wayne join the Grits.
  • Martin still kicks out Chrétien but the opposition from Manley and Copps doesn’t give up before the vote.
  • The S P O N S O R S H I P S C A N D A L still happens. Manning, who has polished up his image over the past seventeen years, is able to win the most seats.
  • The NDP make gains from the defection of Shelia Copps after being kicked out of the Liberal nomination by Martin. McDonough retires as part of an agreement made with Lorne Nystrom.
  • Manning is able to prevent a 2005 budget defeat with the backing of Orchard’s Tories (who get some more anti-free trade agenda put in). However, feeling that the arrangement with the “prairie socialist” Orchard can’t hold, he pulls the plug on the government.
  • Manning barely misses a majority but ends Martin’s leadership of the Grits. The election takes away support from the third parties.
  • Orchard kills off the Tories after a deal with Paul Hellyer, which results in their poll numbers (and later seats) going down the drain.
  • Manning calls for a 2008 snap election after Martin attempts to negotiate a coalition right before he leaves as Liberal leader.
  • The financial crisis having a greater impact on Canada means that the Reform Party loses to Brison’s (who runs as a Liberal in 1997) Grits. While the operations of Martin are unpopular, the recession and backbench Reform MPs using language seen as anti-gay results in the Grits getting a small majority.
  • Harper is elected leader of Reform. After 2001, Manning and Harper have an Adams-Jefferson style reconciliation, and Harper becomes Minister of Finance under Manning.
  • Brison’s economic recovery plans and good relations with foreign nations, along with Harper being seen as responsible for the financial crisis allow him to get a second majority against Reform.
  • Harper’s successor as Reform leader is Maxime Bernier, the youngest Foreign Secretary under Manning and the only Reform MP from Quebec. After his 2014 election as Reform leader (defeating Ezra Levant), he gained massive personal popularity with every Canadian publication talking about “Berniermania.” While Brison still remained popular, Bernier was seen as a new direction. Bernier is able to get a plurality of seats through Quebec, which votes Reform in a major shock (like the 2011 Orange Crush) with the recruitment of former Quebec Premier Mario Dumont and evoking of Réal Caouette.
 

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Something's A Bit Strange, If I May Say So.
There are two things here that happen, that lead to the establishment of this list. One is a recurring theme, the other is a direct in-universe event, legally speaking.

1915 - 1921: Charles B. Clark / William Howard Taft (Republican)
1921 - 1927: Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) / William Randolph Hearst (Democratic)
1927 - 1933: Woodrow Wilson / Albert F. Polk (Democratic)
1933 - 1939: Nicholas Murray Butler / Malin Craig (Republican)
1939 - 1945: John Nance Garner / Smedley Butler (Democratic)
1945 - 1951: Thomas J. Watson / George Putnam (Republican)
1951 - 1957: John L. Lewis / Huey Long (Democratic)
1957 - 1963: Hugo Black / Ernest Hemingway (Democratic)
1963 - 1969: J. Paul Getty / Howard Hughes (Republican)
1969 - 1975: Paul Robeson / Ronald Reagan (Democratic)
1975 - 1981: Theodor Geisel / John Kennedy (Democratic)
1981 - 1987: Paulette Goddard (Democratic) / Alan Shephard (Republican)
1987 - 1993: Gregory Peck / Martin Luther King, Jr. (Republican)
1993 - 1999: Frances Gumm-Deans / Elvis Presley (Democratic)
1999 - 2005: Shirley Temple Black / Richard Cheney (Republican)
2005 - 2011: James Earl Jones / Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican)
2011 - 2017: Martin Sheen / Cynthia Ann Lauper (Democratic)
2017 - incumbent: William Clinton / Allison Janney (Democratic)

I don't have much in the way of elaboration because this was done for memetics and theming, not for anything else.
 
NIE! NIE! NIE!

1950-1963: Walter Ulbricht (SED leading National Front)
1963-1969: Albert Norden (SED leading National Front)
1969-1971: Hermann Axen (SED leading National Front)
1971-1972: Erich Honecker (SED leading National Front)
1972: Erich Honecker (SED-CDU-FDP coalition)
1972-1973: Alexei Kosygin (Temporary Soviet Administration)

The shock retirement of Walter Ulbricht was supplanted by the narrow victory of moderate (and jewish) official Albert Norden over the more hardline Erich Honecker. Norden's government would be one of reconciliation, opening up regional elections to opposing candidates, holding festivals to attract trade to East Germany, inviting West German Premier Erhard to East Berlin, and trying to revitalise the economy in general. Norden faced severe internal opposition for trying to reduce the extent of the security state and trying to restore rights to opposition figures, who were beginning to converge and protest on the streets. More radical figures were arising and soon, authorities were beginning to see the surging of radical pro-unification groups and growing tensions between communities. Soviet officials such as Frol Kozlov were threatening severe action if Norden could not get his act together. Unfortunately, he could not. His points for reform were considered too severe and not severe enough by both sides, and after seeing his control over the Volkskammer disappear completely, handed power over to the more respected Hermann Axen, who would enact reforms that he previously disapproved of. This saw the expansion of far-left political groupings seeking to return to the days of Ulbricht and the total cracking down on non-communist thought. By this time Soviet troops had been deployed throughout the GDR.

Axen himself resigned out of sheer exhaustion, handing power over to supposed hardliner Erich Honecker, who had conspired to remove Norden during the 60's but was now compelled to press on with his more moderate line of thought. At the behest of the Kulakov government in Moscow, Honecker forced himself into calling elections with the intentions of forming a coalition with non-communist parties, a surprising first for the GDR. Elections came and went, Honecker was in an uneasy position as hardliners split off to support the new CDUP or Vorhut parties. A general strike brought Honecker low, and he resigned from the new Volkskammer. Tired and without options, the Soviets took matters into their own hands and installed what was known as 'direkt regieren' for the time being. However, it looks unlikely that the two sides will ever work things out.
 
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NIE! NIE! NIE!

1950-1963: Walter Ulbricht (SED)
1963-1969: Albert Norden (SED)
1969-1971: Hermann Axen (SED)
1971-1972: Erich Honecker (SED)
1972: Erich Honecker (SED-CDU-FDP coalition)
1972-1973: Alexei Kosygin (Temporary Soviet Administration)

The shock retirement of Walter Ulbricht was supplanted by the narrow victory of moderate (and jewish) official Albert Norden over the more hardline Erich Honecker. Norden's government would be one of reconciliation, opening up regional elections to opposing candidates, holding festivals to attract trade to East Germany, inviting West German Premier Erhard to East Berlin, and trying to revitalise the economy in general. Norden faced severe internal opposition for trying to reduce the extent of the security state and trying to restore rights to opposition figures, who were beginning to converge and protest on the streets. More radical figures were arising and soon, authorities were beginning to see the surging of radical pro-unification groups and growing tensions between communities. Soviet officials such as Frol Kozlov were threatening severe action if Norden could not get his act together. Unfortunately, he could not. His points for reform were considered too severe and not severe enough by both sides, and after seeing his control over the Volkskammer disappear completely, handed power over to the more respected Hermann Axen, who would enact reforms that he previously disapproved of. This saw the expansion of far-left political groupings seeking to return to the days of Ulbricht and the total cracking down on non-communist thought. By this time Soviet troops had been deployed throughout the GDR.

Axen himself resigned out of sheer exhaustion, handing power over to supposed hardliner Erich Honecker, who had conspired to remove Norden during the 60's but was now compelled to press on with his more moderate line of thought. At the behest of the Kulakov government in Moscow, Honecker forced himself into calling elections with the intentions of forming a coalition with non-communist parties, a surprising first for the GDR. Elections came and went, Honecker was in an uneasy position as hardliners split off to support the new CDUP or Vorhut parties. A general strike brought Honecker low, and he resigned from the new Volkskammer. Tired and without options, the Soviets took matters into their own hands and installed what was known as 'direkt regieren' for the time being. However, it looks unlikely that the two sides will ever work things out.
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As I can't resist, minor quibble - the post-war governments were of course already coalitions including as they did representatives of the various other anti-fascist and democratic parties participating in the National Front.
 
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As I can't resist, minor quibble - the post-war governments were of course already coalitions including as they did representatives of the various other anti-fascist and democratic parties participating in the National Front.
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I got some inspiration from the discussion in this thread to make this list, though obviously the main premise of the thread is not included.

List of Prime Ministers of Canada

1957-1963: John Diefenbaker, Progressive Conservative
1957: Progressive Conservative minority, def. Liberal (Louis St. Laurent), Co-operative Commonwealth (Major James Caldwell), Social Credit (Solon Earl Low)
1958: Progressive Conservative majority, def. Liberal (Lester B. Pearson), Co-operative Commonwealth (Major James Caldwell), Social Credit (Solon Earl Low)
1962: Progressive Conservative minority, def. Liberal (Lester B. Pearson), Social Credit (Robert N. Thompson), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas)

1963-1968: Lester B. Pearson, Liberal
1963: Liberal minority, def. Progressive Conservative (John Diefenbaker), Social Credit (Robert N. Thompson), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas)
1965: Liberal minority, def. Progressive Conservative (John Diefenbaker), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas), Ralliement créditiste (Réal Caouette), Social Credit (Robert N. Thompson)

1968: Robert Winters, Liberal [1]
1968: Mitchell Sharp, Liberal [2]
1968-1978: Robert Stanfield, Progressive Conservative [3]
1968: Progressive Conservative majority, def. Liberal (Mitchell Sharp), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas), Social Credit (A.B. Patterson), Ralliement créditiste (Réal Caouette)
1972: Progressive Conservative majority, def. New Democratic (Pierre Trudeau), Liberal (Paul Hellyer), Social Credit (A.B. Patterson)
1976: Progressive Conservative minority, def. New Democratic (Pierre Trudeau), Liberal (John Turner), Social Credit (Preston Manning)

1978-1979: Yves Ryan, Progressive Conservative
1979-1987: Pierre Trudeau, New Democratic
[4]
1979: New Democratic majority, def. Progressive Conservative (Yves Ryan), Liberal (John Turner), Social Credit (Preston Manning)
1984: New Democratic majority, def. Progressive Conservative (Yves Ryan), Liberal (John Turner), Social Credit (Preston Manning)

1987-1988: Lorne Nystrom, New Democratic
1988-1989: Peter Blaikie, Progressive Conservative
[5]
1988: Progressive Conservative minority, def. New Democratic (Lorne Nystrom), Liberal (Herb Gray), Social Credit (Preston Manning)
1989-1990: Lorne Nystrom, New Democratic [6]
1989: New Democratic minority, def. Progressive Conservative (Peter Blaikie), Liberal (Herb Gray), Social Credit (Preston Manning)
1990-1994: Peter Blaikie, Progressive Conservative [7]
1990: Progressive Conservative-Liberal coalition, def. New Democratic (Lorne Nystrom), Social Credit (Preston Manning), Justice (John Rodriguez)
1994-2004: Jack Layton, New Democratic [8]
1994: New Democratic majority, def. Progressive Conservative (Peter Blaikie), Social Credit (Preston Manning), Liberal (Herb Gray), Justice (John Rodriguez)
1998: New Democratic majority, def. Progressive Conservative (Mike Harris), Social Credit (Preston Manning), Liberal (Jean Chrétien), Justice (John Rodriguez)
2002: New Democratic minority, def. Progressive Conservative (Joe Clark), Liberal (Stephen Harper), Social Credit (Preston Manning), Justice (Svend Robinson)

2004-2011: Maureen MacDonald, New Democratic [9]
2004: New Democratic majority, def. Progressive Conservative (Joe Clark), Liberal (Stephen Harper), Social Credit (Stockwell Day), Justice (Svend Robinson)
2008: New Democratic minority, def. Progressive Conservative (Hugh McFadyen), Liberal (Stephen Harper), Social Credit (Stockwell Day), Justice (Svend Robinson)

2011-2019: Hugh MacFadyen, Liberal Conservative [10]
2011: Liberal Conservative majority, def. New Democratic (Maureen MacDonald), Justice (Svend Robinson), Social Credit (Stockwell Day), Alliance Nationale (Pierre Karl Péladeau)
2015: Liberal Conservative majority, def. New Democratic (Pierre Pettigrew), Alliance nationale (Pierre Karl Péladeau), Justice (Svend Robinson), Social Credit (Ted Cruz)

2019-2023: Philippe Couillard, Liberal Conservative [11]
2019: Liberal Conservative majority, def. New Democratic (Adrian Dix), Justice (Naomi Klein), Alliance Nationale (Pierre Karl Péladeau), Social Credit (Ted Cruz)
2023-20??: Laurin Liu, New Democratic [12]
2023: New Democratic majority, def. Liberal Conservative (Philippe Couillard), Social Credit (Ted Cruz), Justice (Naomi Klein), Alliance Nationale (Pierre Karl Péladeau)

Party leaders:
Leaders of the Liberal Party
1958-1968: Lester B. Pearson
1968: Robert Winters
1968: Mitchell Sharp
1968-1972: Paul Hellyer
1972-1984: John Turner
1984-1994: Herb Gray
1994-2000: Jean Chrétien
2000-2009: Stephen Harper
Party merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form the Liberal Conservative Party

Leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party
1967-1978: Robert Stanfield
1978-1984: Yves Ryan
1984-1994: Peter Blaikie
1994-1995: Jean Corbeil (interim)
1995-1998: Mike Harris
1998-1999: Pauline Browes (interim)
1999-2006: Joe Clark
2006-2009: Hugh McFadyen
Party merged with Liberal Party to form the Liberal Conservative Party

Leaders of the Liberal Conservative Party
2009-2019: Hugh McFadyen
2019-2023: Philippe Couillard
2023-20??: Scott Brison (interim)

Leaders of the New Democratic Party
1961-1971: Tommy Douglas
1971-1987: Pierre Trudeau
1987-1992: Lorne Nystrom
1992-2004: Jack Layton
2004-2011: Maureen MacDonald
2011-2012: Raj Pannu (interim)
2012-2015: Pierre Pettigrew
2015-2016: Anne McGrath (interim)
2016-2019: Adrian Dix
2019-2020: Anne McGrath (interim)
2020-2023: Brian Topp
2023-20??: Laurin Liu

Leaders of the Social Credit Party
1967-1975: A.B. Patterson
1975-2003: Preston Manning
2003-2012: Stockwell Day
2012-20??: Ted Cruz

Leaders of the Justice Party
1989-1999: John Rodriguez
1999-2016: Svend Robinson
2016-20??: Naomi Klein

Leaders of Alliance Nationale
2010-2024: Pierre Karl Péladeau
2024-20??: Nicole Léger

Footnotes:
[1] Won the Liberal leadership race to replace Pearson with a comfortable margin over Jean Marchand and called an election soon afterwards, hoping to capitalize on the change in leadership. However he proved to be a lacklustre campaigner with the Liberals lagging behind Stanfield's Progressive Conservatives and bleeding left-leaning voters to the NDP. Unfortunately he never truly got the chance to prove himself in an election as he died suddenly from a heart attack whilst campaigning in Vancouver just under two weeks prior to polling day.
[2] With the Liberals in disarray after having lost their new leader so close to the election, the caucus turned to a pair of experienced hand to take over the reins. However Sharp had legitimacy problems from the start, with people well aware of his previous disagreements with Winters, which annoyed a great deal of the former leader's supporters who almost saw his election as a coup. He was unable to turn around the party's fortunes and the Liberals lost a significant amount of seats in the election, with Robert Stanfield winning a majority and the NDP making inroads in Quebec.
[3] One of the most iconic Prime Ministers of the 20th century, who governed during a period of changing political landscapes where the NDP under the young and charismatic Quebecois lawyer Pierre Trudeau, first elected in 1968, replaced the Liberals as main political force on the left. His greatest accomplishment is perhaps that he successfully negotiated with provincial Premiers to patriate the Constitution, culminating in the signing of the Constitution Act of 1975. His focus on constitutional matters and Quebec however led to a growth in discontent among the western province which was a driving force behind the resurgence of Social Credit in the 1976 election as a western oriented political movement under the leadership of the 34-year old Preston Manning. Led a minority government during his last two years in power and drew some criticism from his party's right flank for how often he relied on working with John Turner's Liberals rather than what many saw as the Progressive Conservatives' natural allies; Social Credit.
[4] The first New Democrat to ever win a federal election, Pierre Trudeau came into office in 1979 after defeating Stanfield's successor Yves Ryan by a comfortable margin as the economy was in a downward slump and voters had begun to tire of the PCs. Had to tackle a severe economic slump during most of his first term in office which coupled with some rookie mistakes from the new cabinet and caucus members caused pundits to speculate that the first NDP government would also be the last. However an improving economic situation towards the end of his first term turned things around for PET and he was reelected with a slightly increased majority. His second term saw the introduction of the national child care program and the reopening of the constitutional debate with the reform and expansion of the Charter of Rights. After eight relatively successful years in power which cemented the NDP as one of the country's big two political parties, he decided it was at last time to step down. In polls Pierre Trudeau is often ranked somewhere among the top 5 best Prime Ministers, usually right behind Robert Stanfield.
[5] Peter Blaikie, the Minister of Justice in the shortlived Ryan Ministry who narrowly managed to win the leadership election in 1984, against all the odds eeked out a tiny plurality over Lorne Nystrom's NDP in the 1988 election. However leading such a weak government, dependent on both the Liberals and Social Credit to achieve a majority soon proved an impossible task and the government was brought down after only 7 months in power.
[6] Nystrom returned to 24 Sussex after just slightly more than half a year in opposition, but he faced the same exact problems as Blaikie. Thanks to the resurgent Liberals the government was far from a majority, something which proved especially problematic as the economy was beginning to go into a recession. Conflicts with the NDPs left flank over the political direction also came to a head during his time in office as the Left Caucus under the leadership of John Rodriguez left the government benches and formed the Justice Party. After 14 months in office Nystrom's government was brought down as well and a snap election was called.
[7] To the frustration of everyone, the third election in as many years resulted in yet another hung parliament. The NDP lost ground, as did the Progressive Conservatives even though they narrowly won the popular vote, while the Liberals and Social Credit both surged. With the largest party, the NDP, still only holding 91 seats the House of Commons was woefully split and in post-election negotiations both the NDP and the PCs tried to convince the Liberals to join them in a coalition. Ultimately it simply came down to which party made the most appealing offer and that turned out to be the Tories. The two former nemeses joined together in the grand experiment that was Canada's first ever coalition government. However the worsening economic situation soon meant that the two parties' plummeted in the polls as their harsh spending cuts dominated the political discourse during their entire term in office.
[8] After attempting to hold on to the leadership after his second election loss, Nystrom eventually threw in the towel in early 1992 as the surging Justice Party worried MPs who thought there was a need for a fresh start. Jack Layton soon proved to be the perfect candidate. First elected to parliament in 1979, appointed Minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development as well as Secretary of State for Canada replacing Rosemary Brown in 1984, Layton had significant cabinet experience with stints as both Transport and Labour Minister during the two Nystrom ministries, along with strong leftwing credentials from his activist days. An effective parliamentarian and campaigner, he seized his oppurtunity in February of 1994 with the collapse of the coalition and the following election where he won in a landslide. In his time as Prime Minister, which lasted until October of 2004, the economic situation greatly improved which presented an opportunity for the NDP to implement a great deal of policies that their base had long craved for. The Justice Party seemed to have been stopped in its tracks while the Tories and Liberals were too busy licking their wounds from the coalition to mount a serious challenge. In 1998 he repeated his landslide win as Mike Harris and Jean Chrétien, two critics of the coalition in their own parties, seemed too busy with attacking each other rather than the Prime Minister. The 2002 election was more of a disappointment as the government lost its majority, but with the votes of the Justice Party it was still relatively easy to get things done. With high approvals, Layton stepped down after the election of his successor in 2004 and retired at the subsequent snap election.
[9] Canada's first female Prime Minister, Maureen MacDonald had entered parliament in Layton's 1994 landslide and was appointed to the cabinet the very same year. As one of the strongest performers in the Layton Ministry, MacDonald won praise both within the party and outside in her various roles in the cabinet, so when she announced her leadership bid in May 2004 she immediately became the front runner. Seeing the bounce in the polls after becoming Prime Minister she took a gamble called for a snap election in November of 2004, surprising the opposition which had expected that there wouldn't be an election until after Christmas and New Year's. The gamble paid off and the NDP regained its majority and could go on implementing further manifesto promises, even though the economy was beginning to show sings of slowing down. In the 2008 election the NDP once again became a minority government, and aside from brief speculation of a Tory-Liberal-Social Credit pact, MacDonald's position was safe as such an alliance would only have a 3-seat majority and find it very difficult to agree on anything. However growing fatigue and scandals which popped up here and there was beginning to wear on the government, and when it lost a confidence motion in 2011 few thought that MacDonald would be able to pull off yet another victory.
[10] Ended 17 years of NDP rule with his landslide victory in 2011 after successfully uniting the centre and centre-right in the Liberal Conservative Party. In spite of initial speculation that the new party would be just as dysfunctional - if not moreso - as the Blaikie coalition, the pundits who made those predictions had often missed that a new generation had taken hold of the Tories and the Liberals after the merger. This generation had had most of their formative political years during times of NDP dominance and had seen what a split opposition led to. They knew that their best chance of getting back into power was by proving that they could work together in order to come off as a credible government-in-waiting. They were proved right as McFadyen not only won the 2011 election, but won reelection in 2015 as well, granting the party the opportunity to implement several long-dreamed of reforms while they reining the spending programs introduced during the NDP years. The man who united the centre-right stepped down shortly before the 2019 election and retired from political life.
[11] A dark horse candidate in the race to replace McFadyen, managing to beat frontrunners Bill Morneau and Peter MacKay, Couillard secured a third term for the Liberal Conservatives in part due to an unexpectedly strong showing in Quebec. In spite of some minor scandals which impacted other cabinet members, the economy was in good shape and Couillard's term in office was not too controversial, so with the party flying high in the polls he looked set for reelection. Little could he have expected what would come to pass.
[12] With the NDP, after nearly 12 years out of power, the polls still pointed to a major landslide for Liberal Conservatives in the next election. Party leader Brian Topp had failed to make a strong impression on the voters, with his approval ratings miles behind Couillard and the NDP hovering somewhere around 20% in the polls. After two provincial landslide losses in quick succession in Saskatchewan and Ontario in the spring of '23, Topp decided to do what was right for the party and resigned. With the next election seen as unwinnable, a lot of the most prominent potential successors decided against running for the job, but even so it was still a major shock to the country when Laurin Liu won the leadership election in the first round. Only 33 years old and an MP since the 2015 election, Liu optimistic message of change appealed to the NDP selectorate and intrigued the general public who wondered how someone so young could rise to such a position so fast. As the campaign kicked into gear Liu proved to be a significant asset to on the campaign trail as her personal ratings soon eclipsed Couillard's and Laurinmania seemed to grip the nation. Meanwhile on the Liberal Conservative side, a series of tactical misteps, gaffes and even an ad which was interpreted as levelling racially tinged attacks on Liu, gave the impression that the previously so well-oiled campaign machine had broken down. Even so, few people thought that Liu had a chance of winning, this campaign was seen by many as a stepping stone to win the next election. Therefore it came as a huge surprise on election night as seat after seat fell to the NDP and it soon became a fact that Canada had not only elected its first Asian-Canadian Prime Minister, but also its youngest Prime Minister in history. But how she will perform once in office, that still remains to be seen.
 
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Very nice list, and definitely something I could see Craig spouting. One minor quibble is that Carson, after the fourth Home Rule Act and the Anglo-Irish Agreement would not agree to serve as UUP leader. He initially sought to use Ulster as a wedge to help kill Home Rule. The fact he appeared in public to have sold off his fellow southern Irish Unionists was something that haunted him politically for the rest of his life, and contributed to his resignation as UUP leader and refusal to become Prime Minister of NI IRL.
 
Excellent. I see you've worked in a Liberal Harper, too! And… Ted Cruz…

A Liberal/Conservative merger is always a fun time and I'm surprised it's not used more often.

Thanks! At first I was thinking about working in a Tory Tom Mulcair for a complete trifecta of party-swapping, but ultimately I decided against it. I've already used him as a Tory in my TL so it felt a bit like I would be repeating myself.

As for Cruz, given the successful Stanfield premiership and the Red Tory-dominated PCs I felt that I couldn't leave @CanadianTory feeling too happy about the state of TTL's Canada. As if long periods of NDP government wasn't enough...
 
Don't worry @EvilSpaceAlien, I've been working on my own thread based on our thread. It's basically a "What if Canada kept the same political parties from the 1970s?" :p

Prime Ministers of Canada

John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative) 1957-1963

1957 (minority): Louis St. Laurent (Liberal), Major James Coldwell (Co-operative Commonwealth), Solon Earl Low (Social Credit)
1958: Lester B. Pearson (Liberal), Major James Coldwell (Co-operative Commonwealth), Solon Earl Low (Social Credit)
1962 (minority): Lester B. Pearson (Liberal), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic)

Lester B. Pearson (Liberal) 1963-1968
1963 (minority): John Diefenbaker (Prog. Conservative), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic)
1965 (minority): John Diefenbaker (Prog. Conservative), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste), Robert N. Thompson (Social Credit)

Robert Winters (Liberal) 1968
Paul Hellyer (Liberal) 1968
Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative)
1968-1977
1968: Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Robert Winters (Liberal); later Paul Hellyer (Liberal), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1972 (minority): Robert Cliche (New Democratic), Paul Hellyer (Liberal), Réal Caouette (Social Credit)
1973: Robert Cliche (New Democratic), Paul Hellyer (Liberal), Réal Caouette (Social Credit)

John Turner (Liberal) 1977-1983
1977: Robert Stanfield (Prog. Conservative), Robert Cliche (New Democratic), Martin Hattersley (Social Credit)
1981 (minority): Yves Ryan (Prog. Conservative), Eric Kierans (New Democratic), Martin Hattersley (Social Credit)

Yves Ryan (Progressive Conservative) 1983-1985
1983 (minority): John Turner (Liberal), Eric Kierans (New Democratic), Martin Hattersley (Social Credit)
John Turner (Liberal) 1985-1986
1985 (minority): Yves Ryan (Prog. Conservative), Robert Curtis Clark (Social Credit), Eric Kierans (New Democratic)
Yves Ryan (Progressive Conservative) 1986-1990
1986: John Turner (Liberal), Robert Curtis Clark (Social Credit), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
Lloyd Axworthy (Liberal) 1990-2000
1990: Yves Ryan (Prog. Conservative), Robert Curtis Clark (Social Credit), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
1994: Michael Meighen (Prog. Conservative), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
1998: Barbara McDougall (Prog. Conservative), Raymond Speaker (Social Credit), Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic)

Paul Martin (Liberal) 2000-2005
2002 (minority): Barbara McDougall (Prog. Conservative), Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Social Credit)
Bill Casey (Progressive Conservative) 2005-2010
2005 (minority): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Social Credit)
2007 (minority): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic), David Chatters (Social Credit)
2008 (minority): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic), David Chatters (Social Credit)

Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic) 2010-2017
2010 (minority): Bill Casey (Prog. Conservative), Sheila Copps (Liberal), David Chatters (Social Credit)
2012 (minority): John Baird (Prog. Conservative), Kevin Lamoureux (Liberal), John Cummins (Social Credit)
2013: John Baird (Prog. Conservative), Kevin Lamoureux (Liberal), John Cummins (Social Credit)

André Bachand (Progressive Conservative) 2017-
2017: Gilles Duceppe (New Democratic), Kevin Lamoureux (Liberal)
 
I somehow had the feeling you would. ;)

Gilles Duceppe as leader of the NDP? That's actually a really inspired choice, I'm almost envious that I didn't think of it first. :p
 
Since it's Canada night in this thread apparently, I guess I should put this list up from my test thread. Some of us have been talking about a True North reboot and this is one of the lists I've come up with for the project. It isn't an original work entirely. It is based on the same Canada of the original thread, but has been influenced by @lord caedus, @Oppo, @Turquoise Blue, @CanadianTory, @True Grit, and a number of others. I also took inspiration from a number of threads new and old (the latest being "No Trudeau") for elements of this. Consider this an amalgamation of AH work rather than an actual original list.

Prime Ministers of Canada
1867-1872: John MacDonald (Liberal-Conservative) (1)

1867: Liberal Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Reform (Edward Blake), Unionist (Edward Everett), Anti-Confederate (Joseph Howe)
1872-1877: Edward Blake (Liberal) (2)
1872: Liberal (Edward Blake) def. Conservative (John MacDonald)
1877-1891: John MacDonald (Conservative) (3)*
1877: Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Liberal (Edward Blake)
1882: Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Liberal (Edward Blake)
1885: Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Liberal (Edward Blake)
1890: Conservative (John MacDonald) def. Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier), Populist (William Jennings Bryan)

1891-1897: William McKinley (Conservative) (4)
1892: Conservative (William McKinley) def. Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier), Populist (William Jennings Bryan)
1897-1911: Wilfrid Laurier (Liberal) (5)
1897: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier) def. Conservative (William McKinley), Populist (William Jennings Bryan)
1900: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier) def. Conservative (Robert Borden), Populist (William Jennings Bryan), Prohibition (Silas Swallow)
1905: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier) def. Conservative (Charles Fairbanks), Progressive (Theodore Roosevelt), Populist (William Jennings Bryan)
1908: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier) def. Conservative (Charles Fairbanks), Progressive (Theodore Roosevelt), Populist (William Jennings Bryan)

1911-1923: Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (Progressive Conservative) (6)
1911: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt) def. Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier), Socialist (Eugene Debbs)
1916: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt) def. "Laurier Liberal" (Wilfrid Laurier), "National Liberal" (Newton Rowell), Socialist (Eugene Debbs)
1920: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt) def. Liberal (Thomas Marshall), Socialist (Eugene Debbs)

1923-1930: Arthur Meighen (Progressive Conservative) (7)
1924: Progressive Conservative (Arthur Meighen) def. Liberal (Thomas Marshall), Socialist (Eugene Debbs)
1928: Progressive Conservative (Arthur Meighen) def. Liberal (Albert Smith), Socialist (Norman Thomas)

1930-1933: Robert Bennett (Progressive Conservative) (8)
1933-1938: Norman Thomas (Commonwealth Cooperative Federation) (9)

1933: Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Norman Thomas) def. Liberal (Albert Smith), Progressive Conservative (Robert Bennett), Social Credit (John Blackmore), Reconstruction (H.H. Stevens)
1938-1944: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Progressive Conservative) (10)*
1938: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) def. Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Norman Thomas), Liberal (Albert Smith), Social Credit (John Blackmore)
1943: Progressive Conservative (Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) def. Liberal (Wendell Wilkie), Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Henry Wallace), Social Credit (John Blackmore)

1944-1948: Louis Saint Laurent (Progressive Conservative) (11)
1945: Progressive Conservative (Louis Saint Laurent) def. Liberal (W. Averell Harriman), Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Henry Wallace), Social Credit (Solon Earl Low)
1948-1957: W. Averell Harriman (Liberal) (12)
1948: Liberal (W. Averell Harriman) def. Progressive Conservative (Louis Saint Laurent), Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Henry Wallace), Social Credit (Solon Earl Low)
1952: Liberal (W. Averell Harriman) def. Progressive Conservative (George Drew), Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Glen Taylor), Social Credit (Solon Earl Low)

1957-1963: George Pearkes (Progressive Conservative) (13)
1957: Progressive Conservative (George Pearkes) def. Liberal (W. Averell Harriman), Commonwealth Cooperative Federation (Major James Caldwell), Social Credit (Solon Earl Low)
1962: Progressive Conservative (George Pearkes) def. Liberal (Hubert Humphrey), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas), Social Credit (Robert Thompson)

1963-1970: Hubert Humphrey (Liberal) (14)
1963: Liberal (Hubert Humphrey) def. Progressive Conservative (John Diefenbaker), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas), Social Credit (Robert Thompson)
1965: Liberal (Hubert Humphrey) def. Progressive Conservative (Nelson Rockefeller), New Democratic (Tommy Douglas), Social Credit (Robert Thompson)

1970-1974: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative) (15)
1970: Progressive Conservative (Robert Stanfield) def. Liberal (Hubert Humphrey), New Democratic (George McGovern), Social Credit (Real Caouette) (16
1974-1976: Hubert Humphrey (Liberal-New Democratic coalition) (16)*
1974: Liberal (Hubert Humphrey) def. Progressive Conservative (Robert Stanfield), New Democratic (George McGovern), Social Credit (Real Caouette)
1976-1979: Allen MacEachen (Liberal-New Democratic coalition) (17)
1979-1981: Flora MacDonald (Progressive Conservative-Social Credit coalition) (18)

1979: Progressive Conservative (Flora MacDonald) def. Liberal (Allen MacEachen), New Democratic (George McGovern), Social Credit (Grace McCarthy), Green (Ralph Nader)
1981-1984: Walter Mondale (Liberal) (19)
1981: Liberal (Walter Mondale) def. Progressive Conservative (Flora MacDonald), New Democratic (Pierre Trudeau), Social Credit (Grace McCarthy), Green (Ralph Nader)
1984-1993: Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative) (20)
1984: Progressive Conservative (Brian Mulroney) def. Liberal (Walter Mondale), New Democratic (Pierre Trudeau), Green (Ralph Nader), Social Credit (Grace McCarthy)
1988: Progressive Conservative (Brian Mulroney) def. New Democratic (Pierre Trudeau), Liberal (Michael Dukakis), Green (Ralph Nader), Social Credit (Grace McCarthy)

1993-1993: Lynn Martin (Progressive Conservative) (21)
1993-2003: Jean Chretien (Liberal) (22)

1993: Liberal (Jean Chretien) def. Bloc Quebecois (Pauline Marois), Reform (Preston Manning), New Democratic (Lorne Nystrom), Green (Ralph Nader), Progressive Conservative (Lynn Martin), Social Credit (Kim Campbell)
1997: Liberal (Jean Chretien) def. Reform (Preston Manning), New Democratic (Paul Wellstone), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Progressive Conservative (Garth Turner), Green (Ralph Nader)
2000: Liberal (Jean Chretien) def. Canadian Alliance (Stockwell Day), New Democratic (Paul Wellstone), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Progressive Conservative (Joseph Clark), Green (Ralph Nader)

2003-2008: Joseph Biden (Liberal) (23)
2003: Liberal (Joseph Biden) def. Canadian Alliance (Stephen Harper), New Democratic (Jack Layton), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Progressive Conservative (Peter MacKay), Green (Winona LaDuke)
2006: Liberal (Joseph Biden) def. Canadian Alliance (Stephen Harper), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), New Democratic (Jack Layton), Progressive Conservative (Peter MacKay), Green (Winona LaDuke)

2008-2011: Barack Obama (Liberal/Liberal-New Democratic coalition) (24)
2008: Liberal (Barack Obama) def. Canadian Alliance (Stephen Harper), New Democratic (Jack Layton), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Progressive Conservative (Peter MacKay), Green (Elizabeth May)
2011-2017: Jack Layton (New Democratic) (25)
2011: New Democratic (Jack Layton) def. Liberal (Barack Obama), Canadian Alliance (Stephen Harper), Progressive Conservative (Peter MacKay), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Green (Elizabeth May)
2015: New Democratic (Jack Layton) def. Canadian Alliance (Paul Ryan), Liberal (Hillary Rodham), Progressive Conservative (Peter MacKay), Bloc Quebecois (Gilles Duceppe), Green (Elizabeth May)

2017-20XX: TBD at NDP Leadership Convention (26)

A few things worth noting.
  • As of 2017, Jack Layton is still alive but not well. His cancer has returned, forcing him to resign as Prime Minister. The ensuing NDP leadership battle would be interesting to cover through the lens of True North (Prime Minister Sanders anyone?)
  • The right remains divided, with the Progressive Conservatives under longtime leader Peter MacKay while the Canadian Alliance has Paul Ryan (class of '97) as their leader. The Canadian Alliance politically is very similar to the Ryan-Pence-Rubio-Haley wing of the OTL GOP (neoconservatism, family values, economic liberalism) where as the Progressive Conservatives are carrying on the traditions of Red Toryism.
  • Party leaders as of 2017 in this potential scenario are TBD (NDP), Paul Ryan (Canadian Alliance), Maxine Ouellet (Bloc), Elizabeth May (Green), Peter MacKay (Progressive Conservative), and TBD (Liberal). The NDP/Liberal leadership elections could potentially be covered here.
  • A few parallels to OTL exist; for example, the 2008 Liberal leadership contest comes down to Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham of New York (with a third place finish by Dion), the 1993 election is largely the same except with Lynn Martin at the helm of the PC's rather than Kim Campbell. The Humphrey/Stanfield dynamic is a direct copy of Heath/Wilson in the seventies while Pearkes is based around SuperMac (they even look alike!) while lastly, the seven year Premiership and eventual succession of Layton in this scenario - should we choose to go with it - was somewhat inspired by the fall of Cameron and the rise of Theresa May (different circumstances, same type of news event).
  • Anyone have any suggestions for a potential Mulroney replacement? I feel like he is too convergent and would like to see a different free-trader in there. I thought about Reagan but decided against it. Any recommendations?
 
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I don't understand why Jason Kander is so popular on this site given that he lost in his only bid for office.
I agree that it’s odd that’s he’s being played as a 2020 contender, but he had won races for Secretary if State and the State House.
 
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