Graham Preston Bruce is a former

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politician. After serving as Mayor of

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, Bruce was elected as a

Social Credit Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...

Member of the

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from 1986 to 1991 in the electoral district of

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. He was later re-elected as a

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, representing the district of

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from 2001 to 2005. On October 3, 1989, Bruce and three colleagues —

Duane Delton Crandall Duane Delton Crandall (born August 14, 1946) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991, as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Columbia River. On October 3, 1989, Crandall ...

, David Mercier, and

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— quit the governing Social Credit caucus to sit as "Independent Social Credit" members. In a joint statement, the four stressed that they "in no way desire the fall of our government", but wished to spur an "open and realistic assessment" of Bill Vander Zalm's continued leadership. Bruce was said to have grown discontent after the shocking by-election defeat in

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, a longtime stronghold for the party, two weeks prior. Bruce returned the Socred caucus on February 14, 1990, alongside Mercier and Mowat (Crandall had already rejoined caucus in January). In 2009, Conflict of Interest Commissioner Paul Fraser ruled that Bruce received no direct benefit of his former cabinet post, despite acting as a paid consultant to the Cowichan Journey of a Generation Society and

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within two years of losing in the 2005 election. Bruce was, however, found in contravention of the Federal Lobbyists' Code of Conduct for not registering.

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Graham Bruce
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruce, Graham 1952 births British Columbia Liberal Party MLAs British Columbia Social Credit Party MLAs Living people Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia People from Duncan, British Columbia 21st-century Canadian politicians