Canadian politics could be heading for an extremely rare situation: a prime minister who doesn’t have a seat in the House of ...

“The prime minister does not have to be an MP. John Turner was not an MP,” he said. Turner was Canada’s 17th prime minister and while he had been elected as an MP in previous elections, he was not one ...

Turner didn't have a seat when he ran for and won the Liberal leadership in 1984. He would be sworn in as prime minister in June of that year — but he never sat in the House of Commons as prime ...

Nevertheless, Clark was sworn in as the western province's premier. Former prime minister John Turner was also not a member of Parliament when he won the Liberal leadership race in 1984 and ...

He cites the example of John Turner, who in 1975 dominated national headlines when he left cabinet. The Canadian Encyclopedia notes that former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s supporters ...