Canadian Alliance Candidates, 2000 Canadian Federal Election

The Canadian Alliance fielded several candidates in the 2000 federal election, and won sixty-six seats to become the Official Opposition party in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

This page also provides information for Canadian Alliance candidates who contested by-elections between 2000 and 2003.

All electoral information is taken from Elections Canada.

Quebec

''Note: this section is incomplete.''

Ontario

Eglinton—Lawrence: Joel Etienne

Etienne is a lawyer in Toronto, and was twenty-six years old at the time of the election. He said that he chose to enter the campaign to protest Canada's support for a United Nations resolution that was critical of Israel. He also supported tax incentives for religious school tuition. He received 5,497 votes (13.26%), finishing third against Liberal incumbent Joseph Volpe. Etienne has been involved in several high-profile legal cases since 2000, including a 2004 defence of an illegal Jamaican immigrant who argued that his life would be in danger if he was deported. Etienne succeeded in winning him the right to stay in Canada. In 2005, he was listed as co-chair of Toronto Friends of Falun Gong.

Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington: Sean McAdam

McAdam is a political consultant. He first campaigned for public office in the 1993 federal election as the Reform Party candidates in Kingston and the Islands. He was twenty-four years old at the time, and a Political Science student at Queen's University (''Kingston Whig-Standard'', 23 October 1993). He finished third against Liberal incumbent Peter Milliken, and later worked on the Ottawa staff of federal Reform Party leader Preston Manning.

McAdam ran for the Reform Party again in the 1997 election, defeating Vito D. Luceno and Laurie Greenidge for the nomination in Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (''KWS'', 7 October 1996). He focused on gun control as a primary issue (''KWS'', 17 May 1997), and finished third against Liberal Larry McCormick. After the election, McAdam worked for two years in the office of Reform Member of Parliament (MP) Art Hanger before becoming Manning's Question Period advisor (''National Post'', 1 May 1999). He was an early supporter of the Reform Party's United Alternative initiative, which eventually led to the creation of the Canadian Alliance (''KWS'', 2 June 1998). He worked as a senior aide to Stockwell Day in late 2000, after Day defeated Manning to become Alliance leader.

McAdam won the HFLA Alliance nomination over Vito Luceno and former Member of Provincial Parliament Gary Fox for the 2000 election (''KWS'', 23 October 2000) and, although the riding was seen as winnable for his party, lost to McCormick a second time (''KWS'', 28 November 2000. He continued to work for Day until March 2001, when he returned to work for Art Hanger. In April, he supported Hanger's call for Day to resign as leader (''National Post'', 24 April 2001). He later said, "Once I started to work with ayin a senior position it was clear to me that he wasn't the man for the job" (''KWS'', 17 May 2001). He worked as a senior aide to the breakaway Democratic Representative Caucus later in the year. He was also critical of plans to have Stephen Harper challenge Day for the Alliance leadership, writing that Harper "seems to focus more on the differences than on what can unite" (''National Post'', 16 August 2001).

McAdam has also worked as a palm reader and hypnotist (''National Post'', 1 May 1999).

Kingston and the Islands: Kevin Hunter Goligher

Goligher was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a veteran of the Canadian Forces and has done extensive service overseas, including in Cyprus and Sinai (''KWS'', 6 May and 31 October 2000). He lived in Kingston, Ontario during the 1980s, and returned to the city in 1995 after retiring from the army. Goligher was forty-six years old in 2000, worked as a freelance writer, and was a member of the ''Kingston Whig-Standard'' Community Editorial Board (''KWS'', 17 January 2000). Originally a Progressive Conservative, he joined the Canadian Alliance in 2000 after a request to campaign for the party. He defeated former riding president Siobhain Fiene to win the nomination (''KWS'', 26 October 2000), and received 7,904 votes (15.44%) to finish third against Liberal incumbent Peter Milliken.

Ottawa—Vanier: Nestor Gayowsky

Gayowsky was born in Brandon, Manitoba to a Ukrainian Canadian family, and was a career diplomat for thirty-six years before running for public office. He served in Scandinavia, Finland, Italy and the Soviet Union, and became Canada's first consul general to Ukraine in 1991 (''Edmonton Journal'', 29 December 1990). After Canada recognized Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, Gayowsky was named chargé d'affaires of the Canadian embassy (''Toronto Star'', 27 January 1992). He later represented the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Kyiv (''Financial Post'', 20 November 1993).

He received 7,600 votes (15.79%) in 2000, finishing second against Liberal incumbent Mauril Belanger. A newspaper report from the election lists him as 66 years old. He supported a bridge over the Ottawa River east of Kettle Island, and criticized the Liberal government's record on taxes and patronage (''Ottawa Citizen'', 18 November 2000).

Gayowsky later moved to British Columbia, and was campaign manager for Conservative candidate James Lunney in the 2004 election (''Victoria Times-Colonist'', 17 May 2004). He remains interested in Ukrainian affairs, and was an OCSE observer for the late 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, won by Victor Yushchenko (''Ottawa Citizen'', 4 December 2004).

Parry Sound-Muskoka: George Stripe

George Stripe was thirty-seven years old during the election and worked as a supply teacher with the Near North District School Board. He received 9,569 votes (25.39%), finishing second to Liberal incumbent Andy Mitchell.

Peterborough: Eric Mann

Eric John Allan Mann is a beef farmer in Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield

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