Barbara Frum,OC was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist,acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
David Jeffrey Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003,Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. He has taken credit for the famous phrase "axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address.
Hugh Segal was a Canadian political strategist,author,commentator,academic,and senator. He served as chief of staff to Ontario Premier Bill Davis and later to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Segal resigned from the Senate of Canada on June 15,2014,as a result of his appointment as master of Massey College in Toronto.
Pamela Wallin is a Canadian senator,former television journalist,and diplomat. She was appointed to the senate on January 2,2009,where she initially sat as a Conservative.
The Jewish National Fund is a non-profit organization founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria for Jewish settlement. By 2007,it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception,the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs,developed 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) of land and established more than 1,000 parks.
Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Watson is the former Member of Parliament for the Essex electoral district in Ontario,2004-2015 under Stephen Harper's Prime Ministership.
Linda Jeffrey is a politician in Ontario,Canada. From 2003 to 2014 she was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the ridings of Brampton Centre and then Brampton—Springdale. She served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. On March 25,2014,she resigned from the legislature to run for Mayor of Brampton,and was elected on October 27,2014. On 22 October 2018,Jeffrey was narrowly defeated in the mayoral race by former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown.
Michael Arthur Meighen,is a Canadian lawyer,cultural patron,and former senator. He practised as a litigation and commercial lawyer in Montreal and Toronto. He is a grandson of Arthur Meighen,the ninth Prime Minister of Canada.
Marjory LeBreton is a Canadian former leader of the Government in the Senate of Canada;a member of the Canadian cabinet;and past national chair of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Canada. She worked with four leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - John Diefenbaker,Robert Stanfield,Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney - from 1962 to 1993 before being appointed to the Senate on the advice of Mulroney. She sat as a Progressive Conservative Senator from her appointment until moving with most of her caucus colleagues to the new Conservative Party of Canada in 2004,of which she was soon elected to Chief Whip. She served as an advisor to then opposition leader Stephen Harper during the 2006 election,which the Conservative Party won. After the election,she was named to the cabinet position Leader of the Government in the Senate. On July 4,2013,LeBreton announced she would not continue in the position as of the next cabinet shuffle,which occurred later that summer. She retired from the Senate upon reaching her 75th birthday on July 4,2015.
Allan Grossman was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario,Canada,for 20 years,a provincial cabinet minister and the father of the late former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party,Larry Grossman. Together,the father and son represented the downtown Toronto,Ontario,riding of St. Andrew,and its successor St. Andrew—St. Patrick,for 32 consecutive years. Allan was also the second Jewish Canadian Cabinet minister in Ontario,after David Croll,and the first to be a Tory. He was also the first elected Canadian official to visit China.
Diane Finley is a former Canadian politician. From 2006 through 2015,she served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Her ministerial portfolios included Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development,Minister of Public Works and Government Services,Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation,or CMHC,and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. She was a member of the House of Commons of Canada,representing the riding of Haldimand—Norfolk for the Conservative Party from 2004 to 2021. In August 2020,she announced that she would not be running in the 2021 Canadian federal election. She resigned from office on May 11,2021.
Nancy Ruth Rowell Jackman is a Canadian heiress,activist,philanthropist and former Canadian senator. She was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 24,2005. While initially appointed as a Progressive Conservative,she joined the Conservative caucus on March 28,2006. She was Canada's first openly lesbian senator. She retired from the Senate on January 6,2017,upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Stephen Greene is a Canadian politician and an independent member of the Senate of Canada. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2,2009,and sat as a Conservative Senator until May 2017,when Senate Leader Larry Smith removed him for his support for Senate reform proposals put forth by the governing Liberal Party. Greene then decided to sit as an "Independent Reform" Senator.
Dr. Khristinn Kellie Leitch is a Canadian surgeon and former politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Simcoe—Grey from 2011 to 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party. She was first elected in the 2011 federal election,succeeding Member of Parliament Helena Guergis who was dismissed from the Conservative Party caucus. Following her election,Leitch was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development. On July 15,2013,Prime Minister Stephen Harper named Leitch Minister of Labour and Minister for the Status of Women. She served in Cabinet until the defeat of the Conservative government in the 2015 federal election. Leitch ran in the 2017 contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party. On January 23,2018,Leitch announced that she would not be seeking re-election for the 43rd Canadian federal election and would return to being a full-time surgeon.
David Osborn Braley was a Canadian businessman and politician who was the owner of three Canadian Football League (CFL) teams during his lifetime:the BC Lions,Toronto Argonauts,and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2010 as a Conservative,but resigned three years later stating no official reason. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Denise Leanne Batters is a Canadian politician who has served as a senator from Saskatchewan since January 25,2013. She was briefly ousted from the national Conservative Party of Canada caucus from November 2021 to February 2022,after criticizing then-leader Erin O'Toole,but remained a member of the Senate Conservative Caucus.
Howard Sokolowski,is a property developer,philanthropist and sport business owner from Toronto. He is the husband of Linda Frum and was the former co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts with David Cynamon from 2003 to 2010. His parents,Henry and Eva Sokolowski,were Holocaust survivors from Poland.
Ratna Omidvar is a Canadian politician and academic,who was named to the Senate of Canada to represent Ontario on March 18,2016.
Murray Frum was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist.
Melissa Lantsman is a Canadian politician and public relations executive who serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Thornhill since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party,she is the party's co-deputy leader and the co-deputy leader of the Official Opposition,serving with Tim Uppal. Lantsman is the first openly gay and first Jewish woman ever elected as a Conservative MP. Upon Pierre Poilievre's election as Conservative Leader,he named Lantsman one of two deputy leaders along with Uppal.
