Organized labour thereafter was hostile towards the Conservatives, particularly Meighen and Robertson, for their forceful role in putting down the strike.

He retained his Cabinet portfolios when Arthur Meighen succeeded Borden as Prime Minister of Canada, but was defeated as a Conservative candidate in the 1921 election that brought down the Meighen government.

Meighen was replaced as Tory leader by R. B.

The two men also had an intense rivalry dating from the 1920s when Meighen had previously been Tory leader.

In January 1926, he was appointed Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate by Tory leader Arthur Meighen, and served briefly as Government Leader in the Canadian Senate when Meighen formed a short-lived government later that year.

Meighen was vice-chair of the Senate Committee on National Defence and Security until February 2007 when he and the chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, fellow moderate Tory Hugh Segal, were instructed to resign their positions by the Prime Minister's Office.

King and Conservative leader Arthur Meighen sparred constantly and bitterly in Commons debates.

Opposition leader Meighen unleashed his fierce invective towards King, stating he was hanging onto power " like a lobster with lockjaw.

Instead Byng called upon the Conservative Party leader, Arthur Meighen, to form a government.

During the Chanak Crisis of 1922, King refused to support the British without first consulting Parliament, while the Conservative leader, Arthur Meighen, supported Britain.

In 1942, new Conservative Party leader Arthur Meighen sought to enter the Canadian House of Commons through a by-election in York South.

Meighen resigned as leader following his defeat.

Hepburn openly supported King's rival, Conservative leader Arthur Meighen in a 1942 York South by-election, and seemed to be calling for the defeat of King.

Meighen lost his seat, and Guthrie served as Leader of the Opposition and interim leader of the Conservative Party for a full year.

The Conservative caucus had chosen Hanson as interim leader, and he served as Conservative party leader until Arthur Meighen was appointed the party's new leader in November 1941.

Arthur Meighen agreed to serve a second term as leader in 1941 on condition that he would not have to contest the position.

King therefore immediately resigned and the Conservative leader Arthur Meighen agreed to form a government which itself, although larger, was also a minority one.

Byng then invited Conservative leader Arthur Meighen, who had been prime minister from 1920 to 1921, to form a government.

After his party's defeat and the loss of his own seat, Meighen resigned as Conservative leader.

The riding is notable for the 1942 federal by-election in which newly-elected Conservative leader Arthur Meighen was defeated in his attempt to win a seat in the House of Commons by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's ( CCF ) candidate ( assisted by the Liberals ).

He stood again for the CCF when a by-election was called after the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) resigned in order to allow the new Conservative leader, former Prime Minister Arthur Meighen, to win a seat in the Canadian House of Commons.

Meighen is a longtime friend, advisor and fundraiser for former Progressive Conservative leader and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who appointed Meighen to the Senate in 1990 representing Ontario.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

Nevertheless, Borden's successor, Arthur Meighen appointed Bennett Minister of Justice in his government, as it headed into the 1921 federal election in which both the government and Bennett were defeated.

Notable Conservatives who filled the role include R. B. Bennett, and Arthur Meighen ; however, Meighen served this role after he had been prime minister.

Stevens served as Minister of Trade in the Arthur Meighen government of 1921, and as Minister of Trade and Commerce from 1930 to 1934 in the Depression-era government of R. B. Bennett.

Hugh Guthrie, PC, KC ( 13 August 1866 – 3 November 1939 ) was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister in the governments of Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen and R. B. Bennett.

He returned to the House of Commons in the 1925 federal election and subsequently served as Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived 1926 government of Arthur Meighen and then as Minister without Portfolio in the government of R. B. Bennett following the 1930 federal election.

He became one of Quebec's leading lawyers and was so highly regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Following Meighen into civilian life were: Robert Borden, who served as Chancellor of Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector ; Lester B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University ; Joe Clark and Kim Campbell, who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell working in international diplomacy and as the director of private companies and chairperson of interest groups ; while Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien returned to legal practice.

In the 1921 election, his party defeated Arthur Meighen and the Conservatives, and he became Prime Minister.

The third-place Conservative Party, led by Arthur Meighen, thus became the Official Opposition.

Robertson retained his position as labour minister when Arthur Meighen became Prime Minister of Canada until the government's defeat in the 1921 federal election.

He practiced law in Montreal, and became a senior partner in the firm of McMaster Meighen.

Meighen died at the age of 102, and was interred next to her husband in the St. Marys Cemetery in the town of St. Marys, Ontario.

Borden's successor, Arthur Meighen formally attempted to make the Unionist coalition permanent by creating the " National Liberal and Conservative Party " but most Liberals ended up returning to their old party and some Conservatives balked at what they saw as an attempt to destroy the Conservative Party.

Despite having co-operated with the Liberals at the provincial level, Bracken was asked by a number of senior federal Conservatives ( including Arthur Meighen ) to take over the leadership of the weak national Conservative Party in 1942.

He was elected with the support of defiant Liberal senators after moderate Conservative Senator Michael Meighen resigned his position at the direction of the Prime Minister's Office who reportedly wished to install a more ideologically conservative co-chair.

Byng, who had suggested to King that he ought to resign with such a tenuous mandate, later claimed to have told the Prime Minister: " Well, in any event you must not at any time ask for a dissolution unless Mr Meighen is first given a chance to show whether or not he is able to govern ," to which King acquiesced.

While Meighen and other Conservatives expressed public outrage at what they viewed as a desperate attempt on the part of King to cling to power, some Conservatives were privately relieved by King's decision ; they seriously doubted whether the Tories could convince the Progressives to support a Conservative government, were confident that King's attempt to remain in power would eventually fail, and thought the expected debacle would be so damaging to the Liberals ' reputation that the Conservatives would then be swept into office with a large majority.

Since the 1911 election, the country had been governed by the Conservatives, first under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Borden, and then under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen.