- Has lived in Barrie, Ottawa, Maritime provinces, Montreal, Northwest Territories, Alberta and British Columbia.
- Was elected as leader of the Canadian Alliance on July 8, 2000 but lost out to Stephen Harper in March 2002 to continue leading the party.
- Has seven grandchildren.
- While campaigning across the nation Stockwell Day pointed to a river behind him and said,"many educated Canadians are going South just as this river flows." It was quickly pointed out to Day that the river flows north. Day replied, "I'll have someone look into it."
- Mr. Day was appointed minister of family and social services in 1996. For several years he enforced an unwritten policy not to approve "non-traditional families'' for adoption.
- From 1979-1985, Day was administrator of the Bentley Christian Training Centre, an independent school of 100 students and six teachers run by the Bentley Christian Centre, a fundamentalist Pentecostal church, 25 kilometres northwest of Red Deer. The Bentley Christian School taught the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum. The ACE program was American-based and was rooted in a literal interpretation of the Bible. It taught creationism over evolution, for example.
A 1985 government audit of the general curriculum concluded ACE students were rarely called upon to be creative, original or critical. The auditors were concerned the program created 'a degree of insensitivity towards blacks, Jews and natives.' In newspaper articles at the time, Day vigorously denied the curriculum was bigoted in any way. 'God's law is clear,' an angry Day told Alberta Report in 1984. 'Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.' Day refused in an interview recently to say if he still believes that. - Supported a petition to get the John Steinbeck novel "Of Mice and Men" banned from Albertan public schools for it's blasphemous content.
- Frequently expressed a desire end all taxpayer financing of CBC television and eliminate all cultural subsidies to all cultural institutions and individuals. A similar idea was recently proposed by Stephen Harper during the 2004 federal election.
- In 1987, he raised the hackles of women's groups when he disputed a poll indicating one million women had been abused physically, emotionally, sexually or economically.
- He has called official bilingualism an "irritant".
- When he was appointed minister of labour in 1992. He made Alberta's minimum wage the lowest in the country.
- Both he and then Canadian Alliance Party Leader Stephen Harper co-signed a letter published in the Wall Street Journal in March of 2003 that condemned the governing Liberal Party of Canada for refusing to assist the American invasion of Iraq.
- Appointed Minister of Public Safety (2006).
- In his political career, Day has never campaigned on Sundays, believing them to be time for worship and to be with his family. This came under scrutiny in the 2000 election, when his religion became an election issue.
- There was an online petition calling for a referendum on whether Day should change his first name to Doris. The petition garnered more than a million signatures.
- MP for the new Conservative Party. (February 2004)
- Serves as Conservative Foreign Affairs Critic for the Conservative Party Caucus. (March 2005)
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