The Canadian Alliance,formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance,was a centre-right to right-wing federal political party in Canada that existed under that name from 2000 to 2003. The Canadian Alliance was the new name of the Reform Party of Canada and inherited many of its populist policies,as well as its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada. The party supported policies that were both fiscally and socially conservative,seeking reduced government spending on social programs and reductions in taxation.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a centre to centre-right federal political party in Canada that existed from 1942 to 2003.
Brian Vincent Tobin is a Canadian businessman and former politician. Tobin served as the sixth premier of Newfoundland from 1996 to 2000. Tobin was also a prominent Member of Parliament and served as a cabinet minister in Jean Chrétien's Liberal government.
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.
The 2004 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election took place on March 20,2004,in Toronto,Ontario,and resulted in the election of Stephen Harper as the first leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada. The Conservative Party was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada,in December 2003.
Tony Peter Clement is a Canadian former federal politician and former Member of Parliament for Parry Sound—Muskoka in Ontario. Before entering federal politics,Clement served as an Ontario cabinet minister,including as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care under premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.
The Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia,is a moderate political party in Nova Scotia,Canada. Like most conservative parties in Atlantic Canada,it has been historically associated with the Red Tory faction of Canadian conservatism. The party is currently led by Pictou East MLA Tim Houston. The party won a majority government in the 2021 provincial election. The Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia and the Conservative Party of Canada are two separate entities.
The Canadian Wheat Board was a marketing board for wheat and barley in Western Canada. Established by the Parliament of Canada on 5 July 1935,its operation was governed by the Canadian Wheat Board Act as a mandatory producer marketing system for wheat and barley in Alberta,Saskatchewan,Manitoba,and a small part of British Columbia. It was illegal for any farmer in areas under the CWB's jurisdiction to sell their wheat and barley through any other channel than the CWB. Although often called a monopoly,it was actually a monopsony since it was the only buyer of wheat and barley. It was a marketing agency acting on behalf of Western Canadian farmers,passing all profits from its operation back to farmers. Its market power over wheat and barley marketing was referred to as the "Single Desk".
Brian William Pallister is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd premier of Manitoba from 2016 until 2021. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 2012 to 2021. He had been a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Gary Filmon and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 to 2008.
James Moore is a Canadian politician who formerly served as the Minister of Industry in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
John Douglas Reynolds is a former Canadian politician. He was the member of Parliament for the riding of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2006 and a former Federal Opposition Leader. He had also been an MP in the 1970s as well as a provincial politician in British Columbia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Larry Maguire is a politician and activist farmer in Manitoba,Canada. Formerly a Progressive Conservative MLA in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba,he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on November 25,2013. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and sits on the House Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. During the 43rd Canadian Parliament Maguire's Private member's bill,Bill C-208,An Act to amend the Income Tax Act was adopted.
Bernard Valcourt,is a Canadian politician and lawyer,who served as Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Madawaska—Restigouche,New Brunswick until he was defeated in the 2015 federal election.
Nathan Cullen is a Canadian politician. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP),he is the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Stikine in British Columbia. He has served in the Executive Council of British Columbia since 2020,currently as Minister of Water,Land and Resource Stewardship and Minister Responsible for Fisheries.
Gary Vincent Lunn is a retired Canadian member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands. He served in the House of Commons from 1997 to 2011,first as a member of the Reform Party of Canada and subsequently as a member of the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party of Canada. He was a Cabinet Minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Official Opposition Critic for Métis and Non-Status Indians,Minister of State for Northern Development,and Critic of the Secretary of State for Human Resources Development. Lunn lost his seat in the 2011 federal election in Canada in an upset to the Leader of the Green Party,Elizabeth May.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee was a committee of Privy Councillors that was empowered to serve as an independent oversight and review body for the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The SIRC was established in 1984 as a result of the reorganization of Canadian intelligence agencies recommended by the McDonald Commission investigating the illegal activities of the former RCMP Security Service.
Bill Nicholson is a Canadian farmer and administrator,and is one of ten elected directors on the Canadian Wheat Board. Nicholson supports the CWB's single-desk marketing approach as the best option for farmers,and has opposed efforts to introduce open market competition to wheat and barley sales.
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.
This article lists some of the controversies in the 2011 Canadian federal election.
Mark R. Strahl is a Canadian politician. He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Chilliwack—Hope and was first elected in 2011. Strahl is the son of former Conservative MP and federal Cabinet Minister Chuck Strahl,who was the predecessor of the riding.
