Scott A. Brison is a Canadian former politician from Nova Scotia. Brison served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Kings-Hants from the 1997 federal election until July 2000,then from November 2000 to February 2019. He was the first openly gay MP to sit as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 2003,just days after the Progressive Conservatives and the more socially conservative Canadian Alliance voted to merge into the Conservative Party of Canada,Brison crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party.
Ralph Edward Goodale is a Canadian diplomat and retired politician who has served as the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom since April 19,2021.
Hazen Robert Argue was a Canadian politician who served in the House of Commons and the Senate. He was first elected as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) Member of Parliament (MP) in 1945 and was the last leader of the party,from 1960 to 1961. He crossed the floor to the Liberal Party in 1962 and was defeated in 1963. In 1966 he was appointed to the Senate. He entered the federal cabinet in 1980,as the only Saskatchewan representative,with responsibilities for the Canadian Wheat Board. He is well known for being a strong proponent of the proposed Canadian annexation of the Turks and Caicos Islands. He was the first senator ever to have been charged with fraud,in 1989. The charges were eventually dropped as he had been suffering from cancer for a year;he died shortly thereafter in 1991.
John Moody Roberts,was a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for 13 years interspersed between 1968 and 1984. He was a member of cabinet in the government of Pierre Trudeau.
Geoffrey Paul Regan is a former Canadian politician who served as the 36th Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax West 2000 to 2021,previously holding the seat from 1993 to 1997. Under Paul Martin,he was Minister of Fisheries and Oceans from 2003 to 2006.
Dominic A. LeBlanc is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as the minister of intergovernmental affairs since 2020 and also became the minister of infrastructure and communities in 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,LeBlanc sits as the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauséjour,representing the New Brunswick riding in the House of Commons since 2000. He has held a number of Cabinet portfolios throughout his tenure in government.
David Paul Smith,was a Canadian lawyer,politician and Senator.
Reginald "Jerry" Pickard was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 until his retirement in 2005,representing the riding of Chatham-Kent—Essex for the Liberal Party in his later terms in office.
Jack Sydney George "Bud" Cullen,was a Canadian Federal Court judge and politician.
Ralph Ferguson,was a Canadian farmer and politician.
Hunter A. Tootoo is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Nunavut from 2015 to 2019. Elected as a Liberal to the House of Commons,he was appointed Minister of Fisheries,Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard by Justin Trudeau on November 4,2015. Tootoo resigned from that position on May 31,2016,to take a leave from Parliament to seek treatment for alcohol addiction. He returned to Parliament by the end of July 2016 after the completion of his treatment program,but sat as an independent member for the remainder of the 42nd Parliament and did not run for re-election.
Joseph-Philippe Guay,was a Canadian parliamentarian,serving as a member of the Liberal Party.
Omar Alghabra is a Saudi-born Syrian-Canadian politician who has served as the minister of transport since January 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,he has represented the riding of Mississauga Centre in the House of Commons since the 2015 election. He was previously the member of Parliament (MP) for Mississauga—Erindale from 2006 to 2008.
The 1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was called for June 16,1984,to replace retiring Liberal leader and sitting Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The convention elected former Finance Minister John Turner,who at the time was not sitting in the House of Commons,as its leader on the second ballot,defeating another former finance minister,Jean Chrétien.
The 1990 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was held on 23 June 1990 in Calgary,Alberta. The party chose former Deputy Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as its new leader,replacing the outgoing leader,former Prime Minister John Turner.
Robert Oliphant is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He served in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011. He returned to office after re-election in 2015 and subsequently in 2019.
Marco Mendicino is a Canadian politician who has been the Minister of Public Safety since October 26,2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Mendicino represents Eglinton—Lawrence in the House of Commons,sitting as a member of Parliament (MP) since 2015. He was the Minister of Immigration,Refugees and Citizenship from 2019 to 2021.
Bardish Chagger is a Canadian politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Chagger has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Waterloo since the 2015 federal election.
Randy Paul Andrew Boissonnault is a Canadian politician who has served as Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance since October 26,2021. A member of the Liberal Party,he represents the riding of Edmonton Centre in the House of Commons. Boissonnault was initially elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) in the 2015 federal election and served until his defeat in 2019. He later went on to win back his seat in the 2021 federal election. He was one of five openly gay MPs elected in 2015 and the first to be elected from Alberta.
Celina R. Caesar-Chavannes is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Whitby in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2019. Elected as a Liberal in the 2015 federal election,she later sat as an independent member. Caesar-Chavannes is currently a candidate in the 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election.
