Roy John Romanow is a Canadian politician who served as the 12th premier of Saskatchewan from 1991 to 2001. He was the leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party from 1987 until his retirement in 2001. He was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Saskatoon Riversdale from 1967 to 1982 and from 1986 to 2001.
Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada,serving as the party's first leader from 2004 to 2015.
Robert Keith Rae is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who is the current Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations since 2020. He previously served as the 21st premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995,leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1982 to 1996,and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. Between 1978 and 2013,he was elected 11 times to federal and provincial parliaments.
William Alexander "Bill" Blaikie was a Canadian politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2008,representing Elmwood—Transcona and its antecedent ridings in the House of Commons of Canada for the federal New Democratic Party. Following his retirement from federal politics,he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 2009 until 2011,representing the Winnipeg division of Elmwood as a member of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba,and served as Minister of Conservation and Government House Leader.
Peter Arend Stoffer is a Canadian politician,who represented the riding of Sackville—Eastern Shore or its redistributed equivalents from the 1997 election until his defeat in the 2015 election. A member of the New Democratic Party,Stoffer served as the Official Opposition Critic for Veterans Affairs after his party became the official opposition after the 2011 election.
Irene R. Mathyssen is a Canadian politician and was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada from 2006 until 2019. She was previously a New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in Ontario from 1990 to 1995,and briefly served as a minister in the government of Premier Bob Rae.
Veterans Affairs Canada is the department within the Government of Canada with responsibility for pensions,benefits and services for war veterans,retired and still-serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),their families,as well as some civilians.
Lawrence Cannon,is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006,he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30,2008,he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012,and he served in that position until September 2017.
Steven Blaney is a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician. He served as the Minister of Public Safety Canada and previously as the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He has represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons since the 2006 federal election. Despite his anglophone-sounding name,Blaney is a Francophone. He was reelected in the 2015 election. In 2017,he unsuccessfully ran for Conservative party leader.
John L. (Jack) Frazer OMM,MSC was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997. He was born in Kamloops,British Columbia.
Jocelyn Coulon is an author,columnist,journalist,political analyst,and an international research expert in Quebec,Canada. He is well known for authoring various military and other international-related works. Coulon ran in a 2007 by-election for the Liberal Party of Canada in which he lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Thomas Mulcair.
Operation Harpoon was the code name of a joint American–Canadian military operation which took place in March 2002 in Paktia Province,Afghanistan. This operation took place in roughly the same region as Operation Anaconda. It was also the first major Canadian combat mission in half a century.
Brian Thomas Macdonald is a Canadian politician,who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Fredericton West-Hanwell until 2018 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.
The 2015 Canadian federal election held on October 19,2015,saw the Liberal Party,led by Justin Trudeau,win 184 seats,allowing it to form a majority government with Trudeau becoming the next prime minister.
The 2017 New Democratic Party leadership election was won by Jagmeet Singh. The election was triggered by Tom Mulcair having lost a vote on leadership review at the party's federal convention held in Edmonton,Alberta,on April 10,2016,which resulted in a majority of delegates voting in favor of holding a new leadership election. Mulcair declined to partake in the subsequent leadership election and stated that he would remain leader until the party chose a replacement.
Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South since 2019. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2011,representing Bramalea—Gore—Malton until his entry into federal politics. A practicing Sikh of Punjabi descent,Singh is an Indo-Canadian,making him the first Sikh and the first member of a visible minority group to be elected to lead a major federal political party in Canada.
The 2019 Alberta general election was held on April 16,2019,to elect 87 members to the 30th Alberta Legislature. In its first general election contest,the Jason Kenney-led United Conservative Party (UCP) won 54.88% of the popular vote and 63 seats,defeating incumbent Premier Rachel Notley. The governing Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) were reduced to 24 seats and formed the Official Opposition. The United Conservative Party was formed in 2017 from a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Wildrose Party after the NDP's victory in the 2015 election ended nearly 44 years of Progressive Conservative rule.
Harjit Singh Sajjan is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of emergency preparedness and the president of the Privy Council since July 26,2023. A member of the Liberal Party,Sajjan represents the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver South in the House of Commons,taking office as member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 election.
Alex Ruff is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 federal election and re-elected in the 2021 Canadian federal election. He is a retired Colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20,2021,to elect members of the House of Commons to the 44th Canadian Parliament. The writs of election were issued by Governor General Mary Simon on August 15,2021,when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested the dissolution of parliament for a snap election.
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