FILE - Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, May 16, 2006. Diplomats, public servants and former ferocious critics seem to agree that Stockwell Day has emerged from the ashes of one of the most spectacular implosions of a party leader in modern Canadian history to become one of the Conservative government's best performers in cabinet. (CP PHOTO ARCHIVE/Tom Hanson)