Allan Kerpan | |
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Interim Deputy Leader of the Maverick Party | |
Assumed office June 2022 | |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan | |
In office 2003–2007 | |
Preceded by | Carl Kwiatkowski |
Succeeded by | Fred Bradshaw |
Constituency | Carrot River Valley |
Member of Parliament | |
In office 1997–2000 | |
Preceded by | Riding established |
Succeeded by | Lynne Yelich |
Constituency | Blackstrap |
In office 1993–1997 | |
Preceded by | Rod Laporte |
Succeeded by | Riding dissolved |
Constituency | Moose Jaw—Lake Centre |
Personal details | |
Born | Allen Edward Joseph Kerpan 9 December 1954 Kenaston,Saskatchewan,Canada |
Political party |
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Spouse | Melanie Kieper (m. 1976) |
Occupation | Farmer |
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Allan Edward Joseph Kerpan (born 1954) is a Canadian politician. He is the current interim deputy leader of the Maverick Party, a right-wing Western Canadian separatist party.
Kerpan was born on 9 December 1954 in Kenaston, Saskatchewan. He attended public school in Kenaston from 1960 to 1972, but attended St Peter's College, Muenster, during 1969–70. [1]
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the Moose Jaw—Lake Centre electoral district in the 1993 federal election. After realignment of riding boundaries, he was re-elected at the Blackstrap electoral district in the 1997 federal election. [2] Kerpan was a member of the Reform Party, later renamed the Canadian Alliance. After serving in the 35th and 36th Canadian parliaments, he did not seek a third term of office, leaving federal politics as of the 2000 federal election.
Allan Kerpan was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a member of the Saskatchewan Party. He entered provincial politics in June 2003 when he won a by-election at the Carrot River Valley riding succeeding Carl Kwiatkowski whose death left the provincial electoral district vacant. [3] [4] Later that year, Kerpan was re-elected in the general provincial elections, after the boundaries of Carrot River Valley were realigned. [5]
Kerpan was succeeded in the riding of Carrot River Valley by the Saskatchewan Party's Fred Bradshaw. [6]
Following the 2019 federal election, Kerpan became involved with the Western separatist movement known as Wexit Canada, [7] later renamed the Maverick Party.
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