Allan Edward Joseph Kerpan (born 1954) is a Canadian

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. He is the current interim deputy leader of the

Maverick Party The Maverick Party, formerly known as Wexit Canada, is a Canadian federal political party. It advocates for constitutional changes to benefit, or the independence of, Western Canada, which includes British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mani ...

, a right-wing Western Canadian separatist party.

Life and career

Kerpan was born on 9 December 1954 in

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. He attended public school in Kenaston from 1960 to 1972, but attended

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, during 1969–70. He was first elected to the

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in the

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in the 1993 federal election. After realignment of riding boundaries, he was re-elected at the Blackstrap electoral district in the 1997 federal election. Kerpan was a member of the Reform Party, later renamed the

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. After serving in the

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and 36th Canadian parliaments, he did not seek a third term of office, leaving federal politics as of the 2000 federal election. Allan Kerpan was also a member of the

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as a member of the

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. He entered provincial politics in June 2003 when he won a by-election at the

Carrot River Valley Carrot River Valley is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located in the east central area of Saskatchewan, this constituency was created by ''The Representation Act, 1994'' (Saskatchewan) out of ...

riding succeeding

Carl Kwiatkowski Carl Edward Kwiatkowski (November 20, 1959 – February 2, 2003) was a political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Carrot River Valley from 1999 to 2003 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Saskatchewan Party member. He was ...

whose death left the provincial electoral district vacant. Later that year, Kerpan was re-elected in the general provincial elections, after the boundaries of Carrot River Valley were realigned. Kerpan was succeeded in the riding of Carrot River Valley by the Saskatchewan Party's

Fred Bradshaw Fred Bradshaw is a Canadian politician. He was elected to represent the electoral district of Carrot River Valley in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in the 2007 election. Born in Arborfield, Saskatchewan, he is a member of the Saska ...

. Following the 2019 federal election, Kerpan became involved with the Western separatist movement known as Wexit Canada, later renamed the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kerpan, Allan 1954 births 21st-century Canadian politicians Canadian Alliance MPs Canadian people of Croatian descent Living people Maverick Party politicians Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan Reform Party of Canada MPs Saskatchewan Party MLAs Western Canadian separatists