The Conservative Party was defeated in the 42nd Canadian federal election on October 19, 2015 and Harper is expected to be succeeded by Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau.till, Richard Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.