Peter Gordon MacKay is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015),Minister of National Defence (2007–2013),and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006–2007) in the Cabinet of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada,and he agreed to merge the party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003,forming the Conservative Party of Canada and making MacKay one of the co-founders of the current conservative wing of Canadian politics.
Scott A. Brison is a former Canadian 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.
Gordon S. Earle is a Canadian politician. Earle is a member of the New Democratic Party and a former member of the House of Commons of Canada,representing the riding of Halifax West from 1997 to 2000. Earle is the first black Member of Parliament elected from Nova Scotia.
Gerald Augustine Paul Regan was a Canadian politician,who served as the 19th premier of Nova Scotia from 1970 to 1978.
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia,Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party currently forms the Official Opposition in Nova Scotia,under the leadership of Zach Churchill. The party was in power most recently from the 2013 election until the 2021 election.
William Matthews is a Canadian politician.
Rodger Trueman Cuzner is a Canadian politician and diplomat who currently serves as a Senator for Nova Scotia in the Senate of Canada. He previously served as the Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Cape Breton—Canso and its predecessor,Bras d'Or—Cape Breton,from 2000 to 2019. For most of 2003,he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister under Jean Chrétien,and served as Parliamentary Secretary for Employment,Workforce Development and Labour in the Trudeau government. Between 2020 and 2023,Cuzner served as the Consul General of Canada to the United States (Boston).
William D. Casey is a Canadian politician from Nova Scotia who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada. First elected as a Progressive Conservative in 1988,he later sat as Conservative MP following the party merger in 2003. In 2007,Casey was expelled from the party for voting against the 2007 budget,but he was reelected as an Independent in the 2008 election and sat as such until he resigned his seat in 2009 to work on behalf of the Nova Scotian government for provincial interests in Ottawa. Casey decided to return to federal politics in the 2015 federal election and running as a Liberal easily took the seat with 63.73% of the popular vote.
Larry Miller is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound from 2004 to 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party.
The 2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held on May 31,2003,to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Peter MacKay was elected as leader to replace former Prime Minister Joe Clark,who then retired as party leader. In the end,five candidates emerged as challengers for the leadership by the convention date. Two other candidates had participated in the race but both withdrew as contestants before the vote. Quebec Member of Parliament (MP) AndréBachand withdrew his candidacy from the race due to financial concerns and backed Peter MacKay. Former Cabinet Minister and Quebec MP Heward Grafftey also withdrew his candidacy from the race due to health concerns and backed David Orchard.
AndréHarvey,PC is a Canadian consultant,politician and former teacher in Quebec,Canada.
John Michael William Curphey Forrestall,known as Michael Forrestall,was a Canadian politician. Forrestall served in both the Senate of Canada and House of Commons of Canada.
Keith John Ashfield was a Canadian politician. He served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the electoral district of Fredericton from 2008 to 2015 and,before that,was a member of the New Brunswick Legislature from 1999 to 2008. He served in the federal cabinet in various capacities from 2008 to 2013.
Derek M. Wells is a former Canadian politician who served as the Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of South Shore from 1993 to 1997.
Sterling William Wallace Belliveau is a Canadian politician. Belliveau represented the electoral district of Shelburne in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2006 to 2017 as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.
Christopher Andréd'Entremont is a Canadian politician who has represented West Nova in the House of Commons since 2019,as a member of the Conservative Party. Before entering federal politics,he represented the Argyle-Barrington in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2003 to 2019 as a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives. D'Entremont was elected the deputy speaker and chair of Committees of the Whole in 2021 on a secret ballot. He is the first person of Acadian descent to serve as deputy speaker and the first Nova Scotian deputy speaker of the House of Commons of Canada since 1916.
Kerry Morash is a Canadian former safety co-ordinator and political figure in Nova Scotia.
David Scott Armstrong is a Canadian politician,who was elected as a Conservative member to represent the electoral district of Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley in the federal by-elections on November 9,2009. He served until his defeat in the 2015 election.
Jamie Baillie is a former Canadian politician. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia from 2010 to 2018,and was the Leader of the Opposition from 2013 until January 2018,when he resigned and returned to the private sector. At the same time,he resigned as MLA for Cumberland South,the riding he had represented in the House of Assembly since 2010.
Kimberly "Kim" Dawn Masland is a Canadian politician. She was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2017 provincial election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia,she represents the electoral district of Queens-Shelburne.
