Prime Minister Harper has called a by-election for November 17, 2015 to replace the late Jim Flaherty in the riding of Whitby-Oshawa. The Ontario riding has been vacant since Mr. Flaherty’s death in April, There will also be an election in the Alberta riding of Yellowhead which was vacated last month when former MP Rob Merrifield quit to take a job as Alberta’s envoy to Washington.