[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2015-10-23 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
And what of Stornoway?

Because I suspect Reasons for his family renting that place in Rockcliffe Park instead of living there. Reasons not unrelated to the issues with 24 Sussex.

[identity profile] keithmm.livejournal.com 2015-10-23 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, there were good reasons. He couldn't live there. The Liberals weren't the official opposition. Mulcair and his wife were living there after he succeeded Layton (and Layton officially occupied it for the short time between the 2011 election and his death).

It will be unoccupied until the Conservatives choose their new leader.
Edited 2015-10-23 21:44 (UTC)

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2015-10-23 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Now why the Devil did I blank on remembering that basic detail?

[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2015-10-24 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
For a moment I forgot it too. Pretty sure this is the first time in Canadian federal history that an incoming PM after a change of party was not the leader of the opposition.

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2015-10-25 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I believe you're right on that one, but given my brain-misfire above, I don't trust that belief.

[identity profile] keithmm.livejournal.com 2015-10-26 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
1917, the Unionist Party (coalition of Liberals and Conservatives) which didn't exist before, won, but that doesn't really count. Other than that, your belief is correct.