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unusual facts about Reform Party of Canada


Saskatchewan Party candidates, 2003 Saskatchewan provincial election

Bundrock campaigned for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1995 provincial election, and served on the Reform Party of Canada's Saskatoon—Humboldt riding executive in the mid-1990s (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 18 May 1996).


Alan Unwin

He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 16 May 1997).

Beechy, Saskatchewan

Represented Beechy on the federal level as the Member of Parliament for Kindersley—Lloydminster and was the Reform Party House Leader and then represented the area provincially, becoming the first leader of the Saskatchewan Party and Leader of the Opposition until 2003 when he relinquished the leadership.

Bruck Easton

The party was massively in debt at that time following the 1997 election, the loss of Jean Charest to the Quebec Liberals and the onslaught of the Reform Party of Canada/Canadian Alliance.

Canadian leaders debates

In the 1993 French-language debate, Reform Party leader Preston Manning opted to make only an opening statement, as he was only fluent in English at the time.

David Iftody

Iftody returned to Manitoba to stand as the Liberal candidate for Provencher in the 1993 federal election, and was elected over Reform Party candidate Dean Whiteway.

Doug Finley

He was involved with the Scottish National Party and the former Reform and Canadian Alliance parties (which was eventually dissolved into the current Conservative Party).

Focus on the Family Canada

A former member of the board of directors of Focus on the Family Canada is Sharon Hayes, who from 1993 to 1997 was a Member of Parliament belonging to the Reform Party of Canada.

Gordon Kirkby

Kirkby lost to Reform party candidate Derrek Konrad in the 1997 election, campaigning in the riding which was by then restructured as Prince Albert.

Green conservatism

In Canada, the term was popularized in 2006 by Preston Manning, former federal opposition leader and founder of the Reform Party of Canada.

Gurbax Singh Malhi

Progressive Conservative incumbent Harry Chadwick and Reformer Darlene Florence in Bramalea-Gore-Malton.

Jim Silye

In the 1993 federal election, he was elected as the Reform Party candidate in the riding of Calgary Centre.

Lynn Hunter

She served on a number of Parliamentary Committees in the 34th Canadian Parliament including the Environment Committee, two separate committees on the Canadian Constitution and was a frequent contributor to the External Affairs Committee but lost to Jack Frazer of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election.

Paul Bonwick

In the subsequent 2004 general election, Bonwick, having benefitted in the past by vote-splitting between the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party, fell victim to the new Conservative Party of Canada, losing his seat to Conservative candidate Helena Guergis by 100 votes.

Sam Cureatz

He ran in Durham in the federal elections of 1997 and 2000 but finished third on both occasions, behind Liberal Alex Shepherd and candidates of the Reform Party and Canadian Alliance.

Unite the Right

In 1996, David Frum and Ezra Levant organized the "Winds of Change" conference in Calgary, an early attempt to encourage the Reform Party of Canada and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to merge so that a united rightwing party could defeat the Liberal Party of Canada in the subsequent election.


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