David W. Price, PC (born 2 June 1945) is a

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businessman and politician. Price was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004, serving in the 36th and

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Biography

Born in

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...

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, Price ran his own electrical company before being elected

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in 1994. He served as mayor until he resigned to run in federal politics in 1997. He was elected in the

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electoral district for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1997 federal election. After switching allegiance to the

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, he was re-elected in the 2000 general election. He was defeated in the following election in 2004 by France Bonsant of the Bloc Québécois. Price attempted to re-enter Parliament, again as a Liberal, but was again defeated by Bonsant in the 2006 election. In the Quebec municipal elections on 1 November 2009, Price was elected president of the Lennoxville borough of Sherbrooke.

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* 1945 births Electricians Living people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Mayors of places in Quebec Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Anglophone Quebec people 21st-century Canadian politicians Sherbrooke city councillors {{Quebec-mayor-stub Sherbrooke Hussars