The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.

The DRC entered a short-lived coalition agreement with the Tories which was seen as an attempt by PC leader Joe Clark to reunite the Canadian right on his terms. He was easily re-elected to Parliament in both the 2004 2006 and 2008 elections. He acknowledged having gay staffers working on his campaign: "First of all as far as my campaign I don't ask people if they're homosexual lesbian or heterosexual.

Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of the Treasury Board. Stockwell Burt Day Jr.