The
Progressive Canadian Party
The Progressive Canadian Party (PC Party) (french: Parti progressiste canadien) was a minor centre-right federal political party in Canada. It was registered with Elections Canada, the government's election agency, on March 29, 2004.
Under prov ...
fielded sixteen candidates in the
2004 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here.
Ontario
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Derrall Bellaire (
London—Fanshawe
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Geography
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Bellaire is a longtime resident of
London, Ontario
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and has been politically active for several years. He was involved with the former
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
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From Canadian Confederation in 1867 until 1942, the ...
, serving as president of the London-Fanshawe Association for a number of years and running as the party's candidate in the
2000 federal election. He has also been involved with the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
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and has assisted members of London City Council in running for office.
Bellaire continued to work within the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada after the 2000 election, and was involved in the party's 2003
by-election
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campaign in
Perth—Middlesex
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This riding was created in 1996 from parts of ...
that saw the final election of a Progressive Conservative candidate at the national level. He opposed ratification of the deal that ultimately dissolved the party into a merger with the
Canadian Alliance
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, and assisted with the revival of the PC Party name as the Progressive Canadian Party.
Jim Conrad (
Oak Ridges—Markham
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Conrad received 820 votes, finishing fifth in a field of six candidates. The winner was
Lui Temelkovski
Lubomir "Lui" Temelkovski ( mk, Љубомир Темелковски, translit=Ljubomir Temelkovski) (born October 4, 1954) is a former Canadian federal politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2008 who represented the ri ...
of the
Liberal Party
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. See Conrad's biography page for more information.
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