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This is a list of Canadian Senate appointments during a prime ministers tenure. Members of the Canadian Senate are appointed by the Governor General of Canada on the recommendation of his or her Prime Minister. This list is sorted by party, and further sorted into three categories, Senators appointed who sat in the government caucus, Senators appointed who sat in opposition caucuses, and Senators appointed who sat in neither.
Only Prime Minsters Pierre Trudeau, Sir John A. Macdonald, John Thompson, and Paul Martin recommended with any frequency the appointment of Senators belonging to opposition parties; all together, only six opposition Senators have been appointed on the recommendation of other Prime Ministers. Of those six, only four have been from the party forming the Official Opposition. Of those four, three were appointed on the recommendation of Prime Minister Robert Borden, who was trying to create a cross-party coalition National Government during World War I. The other appointment was made on the recommendation of Louis St. Laurent, upon the advice of his strategists, as the PC Party was in danger of losing official party status in the Senate by dropping below five seats. No other Prime Minister appointed opposition senators, and some, namely Kim Campbell, appointed none.
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Stephen Harper -Conservative- 2006.02.06 -
Total = 2
Conservative = 2 1
Pro-Government senators appointed - 2 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
1 One of these Senators had been Elected by the people of Alberta
Paul Martin -Liberal- 2003.12.12 - 2006.02.06
Liberal = 12
Conservative = 2
Progressive Conservative = 2
New Democratic Party = 11
Total = 17
Pro-Government senators appointed - 12 - 70.6%
Opposition senators appointed - 5 - 29.4%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
1 Not recognized as a New Democratic Party senator by the New Democratic Party.
Jean Chrétien -Liberal- 1993.11.04 - 2003.12.11
Liberal = 72
Independent = 3
Total = 75
Pro-Government senators appointed - 72 - 96.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 4.0%
Kim Campbell -Progressive Conservative- 1993.06.25 - 1993.11.03
Total = 0
Pro-Government senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Brian Mulroney -Progressive Conservative- 1984.09.17 - 1993.06.24
Progressive Conservative 55
Reform = 1 1
Independent = 1
Total = 57
Pro-Government senators appointed - 55 - 96.4%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 1.8%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.8%
1 This Senator had been Elected by the people of Alberta
John Turner -Liberal- 1984.06.30 - 1984.09.16
Liberal = 3
Total = 3
Pro-Government senators appointed - 3 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Joe Clark -Progressive Conservative- 1979.06.04 - 1980.03.02
Progressive Conservative = 11
Total = 11
Pro-Government senators appointed - 11 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - - 0 0.0%
Pierre Trudeau -Liberal- 1980.03.03 - 1984.06.29
1968.04.20 - 1979.06.03
Liberal = 70
Progressive Conservative = 7
Independent = 3
Social Credit = 1
Total = 81
Pro-Government senators appointed - 70 - 86.4%
Opposition senators appointed - 8 - 9.9%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 3.7%
Lester B. Pearson -Liberal- 1963.04.22 - 1968.04.19
Liberal = 38
Independent Liberal = 1
Total = 39
Pro-Government senators appointed - 38 - 97.4%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 2.6%
John Diefenbaker -Progressive Conservative- 1957.06.21 - 1963.04.21
Progressive Conservative = 36
Independent Conservative = 1
Total = 37
Pro-Government senators appointed - 36 - 97.3%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 2.7%
Louis St. Laurent -Liberal- 1948.11.15 - 1957.06.20
Liberal = 51
Independent Liberal = 2
Progressive Conservative = 1
Independent = 1
Total = 55
Pro-Government senators appointed - 51 - 92.7%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 1.8%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 5.5%
Richard Bedford Bennett -Conservative- 1930.08.07 - 1935.10.22
Conservative = 32
Independent = 1
Total = 33
Pro-Government senators appointed - 32 - 97.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 3.0%
William Lyon Mackenzie King -Liberal- 1935.10.23 - 1948.11.14
1921.12.29 - 1926.06.28
1926.09.25 - 1930.08.06
Liberal = 101
Liberal (Unionist) = 1
Liberal Progressive = 1
Total = 103
Pro-Government senators appointed - 102 - 99.1%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 0.9%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Arthur Meighen -National Liberal and Conservative Party- 1920.07.10 - 1921.12.28
Conservative 1926.06.29 - 1926.09.24
Conservative = 13
Independent = 1
Liberal (Unionist) = 1
Total = 15
Pro-Government senators appointed - 14 - 93.3%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 6.7%
Robert Laird Borden -Conservative- 1911.10.10 - 1917.10.11
Unionist 1917.10.12 - 1920.07.09
Conservative = 57
Liberal = 3
Liberal (Unionist) = 1
Independent Conservative = 1
Total = 62
Pro-Government senators appointed - 58 - 93.5%
Opposition senators appointed - 3 - 4.8%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.6%
Wilfrid Laurier -Liberal- 1896.07.11 - 1911.10.06
Liberal = 80
Independent Liberal = 1
Total = 81
Pro-Government senators appointed - 80 - 98.8%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.2%
Charles Tupper -Conservative- 1896.05.01 - 1896.07.08
Conservative = 1
Total = 1
Pro-Government senators appointed - 1 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Mackenzie Bowell -Conservative- 1894.12.21 - 1896.04.27
Conservative = 9
Liberal-Conservative = 4
Total = 13
Pro-Government senators appointed - 13 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
John Sparrow David Thompson -Liberal-Conservative- 1892.12.05 - 1894.12.12
Conservative = 4
Liberal = 1
Total = 5
Pro-Government senators appointed - 4 - 80.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 20.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
John Joseph Caldwell Abbott -Liberal-Conservative- 1891.06.16 - 1892.11.24
Conservative = 5
Liberal-Conservative = 1
Total = 6
Pro-Government senators appointed - 6 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Alexander Mackenzie -Liberal- 1873.11.07 - 1878.10.08
Liberal = 13
Nationalist = 2
Reformer = 1
Total = 16
Pro-Government senators appointed - 16 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
John A. Macdonald -Liberal-Conservative- 1878.10.17 - 1891.06.06
1867.07.01 - 1873.11.05
Conservative = 53
Liberal-Conservative = 24
Liberal = 10
Independent Liberal = 1
Independent Conservative = 1
Independent = 1
Nationalist Conservative = 1
Total = 91
Pro-Government senators appointed - 78 - 85.7%
Opposition senators appointed - 10 - 11.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 3.2%
Royal Proclamation 1867.07.01 - 1867.07.01
Conservative = 36
Liberal = 24
Liberal-Conservative = 7
Nationalist Liberal = 2
Independent Conservative = 1
Declined Appointment = 3
Total = 73
Pro-Government* senators appointed - 43 - 58.90%
Opposition senators appointed - 26 - 35.62%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.37%
Declined senators - 3 - 4.11%
* The first government of Canada was that of the Conservatives. Although the Royal Proclamation was a non-partisan one, for the purposes of this article, the Government of the day is represented in this statistic